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Joyent Inc is a software and services company based in San Francisco, California. [1]

43 relations: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Application virtualization, Bryan Cantrill, California, Canonical (company), Cloud computing, Crowdfunding, Dell, DreamHost, DTrace, Ericsson, Gilt Groupe, Git, Greycroft, Illumos, Intel, Intel Capital, JavaScript, Kabam, Kernel-based Virtual Machine, LinkedIn, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Node.js, Object storage, Open-source model, Peter Thiel, Platform as a service, Public company, Riverbed Technology, Ruby on Rails, Samsung, San Francisco, SmartOS, Social-network game, Startup company, TextDrive, THQ, Twitter, Ubuntu (operating system), Venture capital, Web 2.0 Summit, ZFS.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) forms a central part of Amazon.com's cloud-computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), by allowing users to rent virtual computers on which to run their own computer applications.

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Application virtualization

Application virtualization is software technology that encapsulates computer programs from the underlying operating system on which it is executed.

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Bryan Cantrill

Bryan M. Cantrill (born 1973) is an American software engineer who worked at Sun Microsystems and later at Oracle Corporation following its acquisition of Sun.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Canonical (company)

Canonical Ltd. is a UK-based privately held computer software company founded and funded by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth to market commercial support and related services for Ubuntu Linux and related projects.

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Cloud computing

Cloud computing is an information technology (IT) paradigm that enables ubiquitous access to shared pools of configurable system resources and higher-level services that can be rapidly provisioned with minimal management effort, often over the Internet.

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Crowdfunding

Crowdfunding is the practice of funding a project or venture by raising small amounts of money from a large number of people, typically via the Internet.

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Dell

Dell (stylized as DELL) is an American multinational computer technology company based in Round Rock, Texas, United States, that develops, sells, repairs, and supports computers and related products and services.

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DreamHost

DreamHost is a Los Angeles-based web hosting provider and domain name registrar.

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DTrace

DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework created by Sun Microsystems for troubleshooting kernel and application problems on production systems in real time.

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Ericsson

Ericsson (Telefonaktiebolaget L. M. Ericsson) is a Swedish multinational networking and telecommunications company headquartered in Stockholm.

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Gilt Groupe

Gilt is an online shopping and lifestyle website based in the United States, launched in 2007 At one time valued at over $1 billion on paper, the company was eventually sold to Hudson's Bay Company for approximately $250 million, far lower than the total obtained from its investors.

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Git

Git is a version control system for tracking changes in computer files and coordinating work on those files among multiple people.

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Greycroft

Greycroft is an American venture capital firm, founded in 2006 by Alan Patricof, Dana Settle, and Ian Sigalow.

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Illumos

illumos is a free and open-source Unix operating system.

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Intel

Intel Corporation (stylized as intel) is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, in the Silicon Valley.

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Intel Capital

Intel Capital is a division of Intel Corporation, set up to manage corporate venture capital, global investment, mergers and acquisitions.

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JavaScript

JavaScript, often abbreviated as JS, is a high-level, interpreted programming language.

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Kabam

Kabam (formerly Watercooler, Inc.) is an interactive entertainment company founded in 2006 and headquartered in Vancouver, BC.

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Kernel-based Virtual Machine

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a virtualization infrastructure for the Linux kernel that turns it into a hypervisor.

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LinkedIn

LinkedIn is a business and employment-oriented service that operates via websites and mobile apps.

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Linux

Linux is a family of free and open-source software operating systems built around the Linux kernel.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a group of several graphical operating system families, all of which are developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft.

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Node.js

Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform JavaScript run-time environment that executes JavaScript code server-side.

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Object storage

Object storage (also known as object-based storage) is a computer data storage architecture that manages data as objects, as opposed to other storage architectures like file systems which manage data as a file hierarchy, and block storage which manages data as blocks within sectors and tracks.

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Open-source model

The open-source model is a decentralized software-development model that encourages open collaboration.

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Peter Thiel

Peter Andreas Thiel (born October 11, 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, philanthropist, political activist, and author.

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Platform as a service

Platform as a Service (PaaS) or application platform as a Service (aPaaS) or platform base service is a category of cloud computing services that provides a platform allowing customers to develop, run, and manage applications without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure typically associated with developing and launching an app.

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Public company

A public company, publicly traded company, publicly held company, publicly listed company, or public corporation is a corporation whose ownership is dispersed among the general public in many shares of stock which are freely traded on a stock exchange or in over the counter markets.

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Riverbed Technology

Riverbed Technology, Inc.

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Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails, or Rails, is a server-side web application framework written in Ruby under the MIT License.

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Samsung

Samsung is a South Korean multinational conglomerate headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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SmartOS

SmartOS is a free and open-source SVR4 hypervisor, based on the UNIX operating system that combines OpenSolaris technology with Linux's KVM virtualization.

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Social-network game

A social-network game is a type of online game that is played through social networks.

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Startup company

A startup company (startup or start-up) is an entrepreneurial venture which is typically a newly emerged business that aims to meet a marketplace need by developing a viable business model around a product, service, process or a platform.

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TextDrive

Joyent was founded in 2004 under the name TextDrive by the Canadian typographer, art director, designer, writer and programmer Dean Allen, the creator of Textile markup, who was looking to create an ideal hosting environment for the content management system he was developing, Textpattern.

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THQ

THQ Inc. was an American video game developer and publisher.

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Twitter

Twitter is an online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets".

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Ubuntu (operating system)

Ubuntu (stylized as ubuntu) is a free and open source operating system and Linux distribution based on Debian.

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Venture capital

Venture capital (VC) is a type of private equity, a form of financing that is provided by firms or funds to small, early-stage, emerging firms that are deemed to have high growth potential, or which have demonstrated high growth (in terms of number of employees, annual revenue, or both).

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Web 2.0 Summit

The Web 2.0 Summit (originally known as the Web 2.0 Conference) was an annual event, held in San Francisco, California from 2004 to 2011, that featured discussions about the World Wide Web.

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ZFS

ZFS is a combined file system and logical volume manager designed by Sun Microsystems and now owned by Oracle Corporation.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyent

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