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Articles for the keywords: Joyent
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18 May 2013
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illumos and the 2013 Google Summer of Code [31012]
third year of participation
The illumos project has been accepted as a mentoring organization for the 2013 Google Summer of Code (this marks our third year of participation in GSoC). The illumos project is a community-driven open source operating system development project derived from the former OpenSolaris project. Google's Summer of Code program promotes student involvement in open source communities by sponsoring summer internships for students to work on projects like illumos. Members of the illumos community (including Nexenta and Joyent) support this program by offering experienced staff members willing to mentor student projects.
If you might like to apply for one of these internships, or just want to learn more about our involvement in this program, please see the illumos GSoC page. OpenIndiana is also participating, under the illumos umbrella.
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17 Jan 2013
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Virtualization Performance on Joyent's Public Cloud: Zones, KVM, Xen [29391]
Assessing the Options with Brendan Gregg
Brendan Gregg explains the virtualization technologies Joyent uses to run its high performance public cloud: Zones and KVM on SmartOS. He considers the performance of these technologies from the aspects of characteristics, block diagrams, internals, and results, explaining that Zones adds no overhead, whereas Xen (no longer in use at Joyent) and KVM do, which could limit network throughput to as much as a quarter of its potential. Joyent customers are therefore encouraged to deploy on Zones to ensure better performance, observability and simplicity. This may entail compiling their applications for SmartOS or, if they insist on running Linux or Windows, employing hardware virtualization (KVM).
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21 Dec 2012
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The USE Method: SmartOS Performance Checklist [28989]
Comprehensive System Performance Analysis Tool: Cloud, Physical Resources and Software
The USE Method, as Brendan Gregg describes it, provides a strategy for performing a complete check of system health, identifying common bottlenecks and errors. For each system resource, metrics for utilization, saturation and errors are identified and checked. Identified issues are then investigated further. Gregg provides check lists for cloud limits, physical resources and software resources. His example employs a USE-based metric list for use within a SmartOS SmartMachine (Zone), such as those provided by the Joyent Public Cloud. These use the illumos kernel, and so this list should also be mostly relevant for OmniOS Zones, and to a lesser degree, Solaris Zones.
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21 Nov 2012
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Joyent Names New CEO [28572]
Prepares to Release Joyent7 System Software
Henry Wasik, former head of Force10 and SVP for voice networks and applications software at Alcatel, is the new CEO of Joyent, the San Francisco based cloud infrastructure-as-a-service provider, reports Charles Babcock in Information Week. Wasik, who previously worked for startups Mostek and InteCom, holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and a master's degree in industrial management. Joyent plans to release its Joyent7 system software in 2013, according to CTO and founder Jason Hoffman.
The updated cloud system, said Hoffman, "is for people who want to be a service provider, like us."
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08 Aug 2012
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illumos and ZFS Training from Joyent [27164]
Brendan Gregg and Max Bruning Join the Joyent Team
Joyent has executed in coup on enticing Brendan Gregg and Max Bruning, two of the best known trainers in Solaris, to join its engineering staff and to offer training in such solutions as DTrace and others. Gregg will teach "DTrace: Core Features and Performance Analysis" in San Francisco during September 6-7, and Bruning will teach the same class in Geneva during September 13-14. Other classes in prospect are Illumos ZFS Internals and Illumos/SmartOS Internals.
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