Cloud Computing
Joyent
http://www.joyent.com/
High-performance Cloud Infrastructure for Real-time Web and Mobile Applications
Overview
Joyent is the high-performance cloud infrastructure and big data analytics company, offering organizations of any size the best public and hybrid cloud infrastructure for today’s demanding real-time web and mobile applications.
Joyent uses true cloud-native technologies, like OS virtualization, to maximize the performance of its computing resources. Unlike legacy hardware-virtualization designs, the underlying operating system – SmartOS – runs on bare-metal, meaning there are no extra layers to navigate before gaining access to hardware resources.