Joyent Cloud Partners With Amplify to Deliver Free Cloud Resources for Media and Gaming Startups

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Joyent Cloud, the highest performance public cloud, and Amplify, a startup accelerator focused on supporting innovative media and entertainment Internet startups, have announced a partnership to supply free cloud computing resources and marketing services to Amplify’s portfolio companies.

Members of the Amplify startup family will power their launches on Joyent SmartMachines running Joyent SmartOS, a unique operating system designed specifically for cloud computing. SmartOS and Joyent’s SmartDataCenter are the core components behind Joyent’s public cloud offering, a service designed specifically to deliver the premium performance required to power real-time applications…

Joyent Cloud is ideal for companies building applications that require low latency and lightning-fast end-user experiences. The Joyent Cloud currently powers over 300 million monthly unique visitors and hundreds of billions of monthly processes for leading Internet brands such as Voxer, LinkedIn, ModCloth, TaskRabbit and Kabam.

"Joyent Cloud is focused on delivering the best performance at a reasonable price — real-time computing that can handle any end-user application," explains Oded Noy, Amplify’s chief technologist and co-founder of startups Zag and Social Approach. "That’s exactly what our startups need to develop, scale quickly and deliver great user experiences."

Unique capabilities Joyent Cloud brings to Amplify portfolio companies include:

        —  Joyent Cloud Analytics with DTrace for performance tuning and latency
            root cause analysis
        —  Debugging tools for Node.js applications and analytics for Node.js
            application performance
        —  SmartMachine virtual compute environments that enable instant CPU
            capacity burst of up to 800% to handle large usage spikes
        —  A suite of performance-tuned, dedicated, highly-scalable virtual
            appliances for popular applications (database, Web server, load
            balancer)
        —  A 100% uptime SLA and 365/24/7 direct support

"Partnering with Amplify gives Joyent a chance to deliver a high-performance cloud platform that can scale up as young companies grow," said Joyent Cloud General Manager Steve Tuck. "Amplify and its first group of portfolio companies are ideally suited to take advantage of the superior performance we deliver with Joyent’s SmartOS and SmartDataCenter."