Joyent Public Cloud EOL

I can say without a doubt, if it weren’t for Joyent, my fantastic coworkers, and the experience and opportunity they granted me I wouldn’t be where I am today. I fondly remember debugging issues and learning so much with my talented coworkers. Congratulations Joyeurs on everything you’ve done to forward the Public Cloud and Systems Engineering.

Re: Joyent Public Cloud EOL

#6

Post by joeblubaugh » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 3:58 PM UTC

Wow, 5 months is an insanely short timetable to ask people to migrate entire systems to another vendor. I’m surprised their contracts don’t have better terms.

Re: Joyent Public Cloud EOL

#7

Post by Annatar » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 4:00 PM UTC

rubin55 wrote: post #2

Here's a blog explaining the decision : https://www.joyent.com/blog/joyent-announces-strategic-chang...

That doesn't explain anything really. What I want to know is what actually went on behind closed doors. Everything else is corporate public relations. In these cases hearsay is often far more accurate and reliable than these carefully worded statements.

The statement implies that Samsung's hunger for resources had grown so large that there is no more room for the public hosting side of the business, but considering how high performance SmartOS zones are (bare metal performance), I find that incredulous. How is that even possible?

But do let us, for the purpose of this mental exercise, presume that Samsung has indeed such great hunger for resources that public side of the business has to go: surely a chaebol as large and as financially powerful as Samsung has the funding to keep both its internal infrastructure hunger and the public side of the business sated, and easily at that?

Another option could be that the public side of the business was losing money, but considering just how trivially easy and fast SmartOS zones are to provision, and how little financial resources it costs to run them (it costs me literally peanuts and I run my entire datacenter at my own premise and expense), it is hard for me to fathom what could have possibly went wrong there: this technology is so advanced and ahead of its time that even a single customer running on it would be profitable, a bonus, and Joyent has more than one customer...

Re: Joyent Public Cloud EOL

#8

Post by new_realist » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 4:05 PM UTC

Could have been predicted seven years ago. Kudos for making it longer than expected.

Re: Joyent Public Cloud EOL

#9

Post by Locator9 » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 4:08 PM UTC

joeblubaugh wrote: post #6

Wow, 5 months is an insanely short timetable to ask people to migrate entire systems to another vendor. I’m surprised their contracts don’t have better terms.

Joyent really doesn’t have a great track record on shutting down services... That said my view on the company is very much tainted by what happened many years ago when they where a different type of company all together. I personally purchased a few of their ‘VC’ plans before they when all enterprise.

Re: Joyent Public Cloud EOL

#10

Post by equalunique » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 4:10 PM UTC

I have been a fan of Joyent's tech for several years now. This change seems like a scary one. Wishing them luck.