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Samsung Buys US Cloud Services Firm Joyent (venturebeat.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the partly-cloudy-with-a-chance-of-rain dept.

An anonymous reader writes from a report via VentureBeat: Samsung has announced Thursday that it has acquired Joyent, a company with public cloud infrastructure and private cloud software, to help beef-up its software and services around its smartphone business. While terms of the deal weren't disclosed, Samsung did say Joyent will continue to operate as a standalone company. "Until now, we lacked one thing. We lacked the scale required to compete effectively in the large, rapidly growing and fiercely competitive cloud computing market. Now, that changes," Joyent chief executive Scott Hammond wrote in a blog post. With Samsung's brand name and money to invest, Joyent may become more popular and challenge some of the top cloud infrastructure providers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and the Google Cloud Platform. Joyent was the original steward of server-side JavaScript framework Node.js and helped to establish the Node.js Foundation in 2015.

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  1. Sun alumnis by zdzichu · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Joyent is mainly known as a refugee for brilliant Sun engineers after Oracle takeover. They've built their platform around Solaris, ported linux' KVM to it and further enhanced using ZFS and DTrace.
    The question is: will Samsung integrate those pearls? Or would this Solaris platform be shelved?

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    :wq
    1. Re:Sun alumnis by E-Lad · · Score: 2

      You're missing an important distinction - SmartOS is based on illumos, which was forked years ago off of OpenSolaris when Oracle decided to shut that down.

      SmartOS is thus illumos, and illumos and Oracle Solaris have diverged a good bit in the intervening years.

  2. Re:a possible angle by epine · · Score: 2

    A second thought just occurred to me.

    If Samsung is a year or more behind on resistive memory, the short-term objective might be to pound the sand out of Intel's new 3D XPoint, so that they really know what they're up against.