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• Will containers kill the virtual machine?

  Two years ago when Frank Macreery started Aptible to help companies host sensitive healthcare data in the cloud, as CTO he decided that containers would play a pivotal role in the company's operations.

• Docker gets some competition with new Joyent, Canonical containers

  Spurred by the sudden success of the Docker virtualization technology, platform services provider Joyent and Linux distributor Canonical have each open-sourced their container technologies.

• Docker gets some competition with new Joyent, Canonical containers

  Spurred by the sudden success of the Docker virtualization technology, platform services provider Joyent and Linux distributor Canonical have each open-sourced their container technologies.

• Armed with new CEO, Joyent rolls out a private Cloud

  Last week was a big one for IaaS cloud provider Joyent - not only did the company pivot to offer a private cloud management software (previously it only offered public cloud services) but it also has cherry-picked a Cisco cloud executive to be the company's new CEO.

• Outage caused by single admin mortifies cloud provider Joyent

  Cloud provider Joyent suffered an outage on Tuesday after an administrator was able to simultaneously reboot all virtual servers hosted in the company's US-East-1 data center.

• Joyent offers Canonical-customized Ubuntu as a cloud service

  Joyent wants to bring Linux into its fold of advanced computing cloud services, and has started offering an enterprise-supported version of the Canonical Ubuntu distribution that has been modified to take advantage of Joyent's infrastructure.

• Hybrid cloud: The year of adoption is upon us

  2013 was the year vendors got their hybrid cloud strategies out in the open, and 2014 will be the year when customers start using them.

• Joyent polishes Node.js with commercial support package

  Recognizing the growing popularity of Node.js for building distributed Web applications, cloud provider Joyent will soon offer a commercial support package for managing the platform, wherever it is run.

• USENIX: Flame graph shows system performance in a new light

  The person who became known on the Internet for yelling at servers is now becoming famous for another, somewhat related, feat, creating a new type of data visualization for characterizing system performance.

• Taking aim at Amazon, Google, Joyent offers tools to change the data analytics game

  Cloud computing provider Joyent, a company with robust engineering chops that's looking to compete with the heavyweights of the industry, today rolled out Manta, its newest service that offers object storage with baked in compute features.

• Public cloud shakeup: VMware in, Dell out, and OpenStack in limbo?

  It's been a busy week in the cloud. Dell ditched plans to build its own cloud and instead will work with partners, while focusing on private clouds. In an opposite move, VMware revealed its plans for how it will compete in the public cloud market.

• Hadoop goes to the cloud

  Two public cloud service providers have rolled out hosted versions of Hadoop clusters, including SkyTap announcing a partnership with Hadoop distributor Cloudera, and Joyent teaming with HortonWorks on a cloud-based Hadoop service that's available today.

• Technologies to watch 2013: OpenStack cloud backers hope 2013 is the year of user adoption

  In the cloud computing market, there are a handful of major vendors. Most agree Amazon Web Services is a market leader on the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) side, but Microsoft, Google and younger companies like Joyent are looking to dethrone AWS. And then there's OpenStack, which is for almost everyone else.

• Amazon, Microsoft and Google targeted by cloud provider Joyent

  Joyent may be the biggest cloud provider you haven't heard of.

• Joyent takes aim at Amazon with public cloud upgrade

  Joyent is upgrading its public cloud service with better analytics and the ability to run Linux and Windows, as it hopes to persuade CIOs to move more applications to the company's cloud, it said on Thursday.