Armed with new CEO, Joyent rolls out a private cloud

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.

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.

Joyent, a rather small niche provider of services – according to an assessment by research firm Gartner – is looking to stay relevant in a market dominated by mega-vendors like Amazon, Google and Microsoft. In an effort to differentiate itself, the company now offers a private cloud compliment to its established public cloud, giving customers an opportunity to create an all-Joyent hybrid cloud…

The company last week released Smart Data Center 7, a cloud management platform that for the first time customers can use to spin up a private cloud. Company CTO Bryan Cantrill says in designing the software for cloud management, Joyent wanted to make it easy and speedy to install and spin up; have native ability to add resources quickly; and be able to scale up to massive sizes…

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