Archive of 'September, 2009'

Webinar: Innovative Tools Being Used in the Cloud to Improve Security

Date & Time

30 Sep 2009 5:00pm PT

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Description:
During this web cast you will learn about some of the most innovative tools being used in the cloud to manage security. You will also find how the cloud is changing the business models for traditional software and network appliances so that customers now can leverage their features [...]

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Joyent Launches the Joyent NetScaler VPX Accelerator

Joyent is excited to announce the newest addition to our Virtual Appliance product line-up, the Joyent NetScaler VPX Accelerator.
The Joyent NetScaler VPX Accelerator makes the complete NetScaler load balancing, application acceleration and security feature set available as an on-demand, virtual appliance running within the Joyent Public Cloud. The NetScaler VPX Accelerator is delivered as a [...]

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Webinar: Best Practices for Deploying and Scaling MySQL in the Joyent Cloud

Wednesday, September 16, 2009 – 10:00 Pacific Time (America)
Join us for this informative technical webinar with Jason Hoffman, CTO and Founder at Joyent, and Rafi Jacoby, Director of Engineering at Context Optional. In this presentation we’ll get an overview of the technical and business benefits of deploying MySQL-backed web applications in the cloud.
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The “Cloud” is supposed to be better than the “Real”

In my weekly reading of posts around this mighty collection of tubes, pipes and cans connected by shoestrings, the thing most call The Internets™, I came across “Why we moved away from “the cloud” to a “real” server”  from the fellows at Boxed Ice. They have a server metrics and monitoring service named Server Density.  Their [...]

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Benchmarking Joyent Pricing

Joyent beats the competition in price and performance!
To demonstrate we have continued on with the previously completed benchmarking work (as described in 2 previous posts by both (Rod and Jason) and benchmarked a few more parameters to create a price comparison. Again, the results speak for themselves.
GeekBench2
The first thing measured was processor and memory performance power [...]

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Is the customer always right? No.

Sometimes the customer isn’t right. Sometimes they think they can pay you some money, never enough, and abuse your team. You have to stick up for the team. I recently sent this email to someone who wanted us to reset a password because they had requested the reset via an insecure web form. They went [...]

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