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Joyent has been a provider of cloud services for the past five years, longer than the term cloud itself has been around.  Today at a press conference in San Francisco, Dell announced the availability of the Dell Cloud Solution for Web Applications which offers the software from Joyent as a turnkey platform-as-a-service offering.  This private cloud offering is offered on Dell’s specialized cloud servers and is targeted at IT service providers, hosting companies and telcos.

Up and running

One of the first customers to pick up and run with this offering is Uniserve, a Canadian Internet services provider.  Uniserve has adopted the Dell Cloud Solution for Web Applications to offer on-demand access to a high-performance Internet application and consumer delivery platform, for customers to develop iPhone apps to commercial storefronts, to hosting and delivering Software-as-a-Service.

Thoughts from the top

Joyent CEO, David Young is featured in the short video above addressing the following questions about the Dell/Joyent solution:

• Why is he excited about today’s announcement
• Why have they focused on web applications
• Who are the potential customers of this solution
• What customer pain points does this solve
• Why partner with Dell

Pau for now…

Extra-credit reading

• Joyent Offers SmartDataCenter Cloud Software Solution to Service Providers in Partnership with Dell

• Talking to Joyent’s CTO and co-founder: Jason Hoffman

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