Cloud is for everyone inculding Solaris users–JoyentCloud

Everyone needs to be in the cloud.  Microsoft markets the cloud with this commercial.

Microsoft Cloud Commercial

On a Sun Blog here is post on Joyent.

Tuesday Feb 15, 2011

Solaris cloud

Interesting what the folks up at JoyentCloud are up to with the Solaris-based cloud offering. From the first looks of it (and knowing who is involved in engineering of it all), it appears as precisely what you'd expect a cloud infrastructure to be: (a) performant (b) 100% reliable (c) robust (d) affordable (e) compliant :-)

And, here is a Joyent page just for the Solaris users.

Special Offer for Solaris Users

We love Solaris users, so we want to give you the opportunity to try out the best cloud services available – which just happen to run on Solaris.

If you want to run your web app or website on the most efficient, performant, and cost-effective cloud infrastructure in the business, you need to try Joyent. Our Open Solaris-based SmartMachines (kind of like a Windows-based virtual machine but better) outperform Amazon EC2 on a number of fronts: Joyent CPU is 5x faster; Disc I/O is 14x faster; and Memory I/O 3x faster.

Who needs inefficient, non-performant infrastructure when you have access to SmartMachines from Joyent? We invite those of you who are building high performance web applications to try out a 1GB SmartMachine for just $45 per month (that’s $80 off the regular price). This monthly price is good for as long as you keep your SmartMachine.

At this fantastic price, we can only allow 1 per customer. This offer is good through March 4, 2011.

Order Instantly Online

If you don’t have an account on my.joyent.com, sign up now to facilitate the purchase process. Then come back here and click on Buy Now to get your special promo price.

(Full Disclosure:  Sun was one of my past clients.  I no longer work for Sun or Oracle, but my brother does work at Oracle.)

Simulate Load with Space Heaters, following Matt Stansberry at Uptime

Matt Stansberry and I last ran into each other at Gartner Data Center conference, but since then he has made the switch to Uptime Institute.

Esteemed Author Matt Stansberry Joins Uptime Institute’s Expert Team

Veteran Data Center Industry Editor to Enhance Uptime’s Institute’s Thought Leadership and Educational Resources

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Uptime Institute (Institute) today announced the addition of senior technology editor, Matt Stansberry, as the organization’s Director of Content and Publications. Stansberry, a well-known industry expert, has researched data center trends for nearly a decade and wrote an award winning book on data center energy efficiency. Stansberry will focus on the development of research-driven publications and programming by tapping into the Institute’s expert leadership, the Site Uptime Networks (Network), and industry-at-large.

Matt writes some interesting stuff and just posted on the first Tier 3 certified data center in Saudi Arabia.  One of the more entertaining pictures is this one.

Chris Brown, the UIPS Consultant who led the effort said a lack of readily available load banks in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia led to the improvised use of heaters to simulate IT load for commissioning and testing.

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