Monday, January 23, 2012

Telefonica Invests in Cloud Computing Firm Joyent

Joyent has rasied $85 million from Spanish phone company Telefonica's Telefónica Digital division. $85 million investment


Joyent provides infrastructure for customers such as LinkedIn, THQ, Gilt Groupe and Kabam. Within the cloud computing business, Joyent provides "infrastructure as a service," namely access to computing and storage resources on a rental basis. 


With the new partnership, Joyent will be able to bring its services to more countries thanks to Telefónica data centers throughout Europe and Latin America.

1 comment:

cloud computing said...

As a Dell employee I think your article about cloud computing is quite impressive. I think cloud computing is a technology that uses the internet and central remote servers to maintain data and applications.

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