Joyent Public Cloud EOL

Post by 60sec » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 4:22 PM UTC

Annatar wrote: post #7

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 h…

Post by dogecoinbase » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 4:25 PM UTC

Locator9 wrote: post #9

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.

Post by bcantrill » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 4:40 PM UTC

60sec wrote: post #11

Annatar wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 h…

Perhaps this has more to do with goals and focus than cost/efficiency. In many tech companies the scarcest resource is man-hours for development/maintenance. The order of complexity for public cloud/multi-tenant is much higher than for private/single-tenant, especially given the recent onslaught of CPU vulnerabilities. Still a big loss. I imagine it must feel like a defeat, especially to Bryan, given the corporate cu…

Post by fragmede » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 4:43 PM UTC

new_realist wrote: post #8

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

Post by velcrovan » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 4:55 PM UTC

berns wrote: post #18

> For our existing public cloud and private data center customers, adding scale, financial muscle, and Samsung as both a partner for innovation and as a large anchor tenant customer for Triton and Manta, will pay big dividends. The tenant is now too large, please move out.