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.
Monday, January 23, 2012
Telefonica Invests in Cloud Computing Firm Joyent
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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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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