13 Facts About Joyent

Joyent Inc was a software and services company based in San Francisco, California.

Triton, Joyent's hosting unit, was designed to compete with Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud and offered infrastructure as a service and platform as a service for large enterprises.

In June 2013 Joyent introduced an object storage service under the name Manta and partnered in September 2013 with network appliance vendor Riverbed to offer an inexpensive content-delivery network.

In February 2014, Joyent announced a partnership with Canonical to offer virtual Ubuntu machines.

Joyent took software that evolved over time in the running of their hosted business and licensed that software under the name Triton DataCenter to large hardware companies such as Dell.

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Name Joyent was coined by David Paul Young in the second half of 2004, and some early funding obtained from Peter Thiel.

In 2009, Joyent acquired Reasonably Smart, a cloud startup company with products based on JavaScript and Git.

In 2010, Joyent purchased LayerBoom, a Vancouver-based startup that provides solutions for managing virtual machines running on Windows and Linux.

On June 6,2019, Joyent announced that their Triton public cloud would be shut down on November 9,2019.

TextDrive and, later, Joyent repeated the money-raising procedure a number of times in order to avoid the venture capital market.

Joyent raised venture capital for the first time in November 2009 from Intel and Dell.

In January 2012, Joyent secured a new round of funding totalling $85 million from Weather Investment II, Accelero Capital, and Telefonica Digital.

In October 2014, Joyent raised an additional $15 million in series D funding from existing investors.