David Young's "Joyeur" Blog
What sort of cloud computer(s) should we be building or expecting from
vendors? Are there issues of lock-in that should concern customers of either
SaaS clouds or PaaS clouds? I’ve been thinking about this problem as the
CEO of a PaaS cloud computing company for some time. Clouds should be open.
They shouldn’t be proprietary. More broadly, I believe no vendor currently
does everything that’s required to serve customers well.
What’s required for such a cloud? I think an ideal PaaS cloud would have
the following nine features:
1. Virtualization Layer Network Stability
Cloud computers must operate on some sort of virtualization technology for
many of the following features to even be feasible. But as general purpose
computing moves from dedicated hardware to on-demand computing, one key
feature of the dedicated model for web applications is a ... (more)
David Young's Joyeur Blog
Recently, so much ink has been spilt on our VC-backed brethren racing for the
cash-conserving hills. Why they weren’t shooting for revenue and
profitability from day one is beyond us. Joyent believes when a company is
built to be profitable from day one, market context is much less meaningful
than the ability to expend effort and succeed. As companies move from CapEx
to OpEx, a flight to quality in operations and product, companies such as
Joyent are sure to benefit.
GigaOM and the NYT picked up today on our success in a down market. Congrats
to my fello... (more)
David Young's "Joyeur" Blog
I stood in line at an AT&T store last summer the day the iPhone first became
publicly available. I thought the local Apple store would be mobbed. Four
hours later the AT&T store was out of phones. With not much hope, I drove to
the Apple store. Within 15 minutes I was inside buying two iPhones. So my
relationship with the iPhone started out well, on balance. But I kept on
using other phones on the side.
The virtual keyboard of the iPhone has been the cause of many near automobile
collisions. Don’t believe in guardian angels? OK, but I don’t ... (more)
David Young is CEO of Joyent, which he founded in 2004 to provide a comprehensive suite of Internet-delivered software and on-demand infrastructure for small to medium organizations. Prior to Joyent, he worked at Moody's Investor Service (1989-1999) in the Structured Finance, International, and Digital Media groups as General Manager and corporate Vice President and was co-founder and CTO of manageStar (2000-2004), an enterprise services management software company whose customers included TimeWarner, Sodexho, and Global Signal.
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