15
Jul 10

Joyent buys Layerboom

We’re thrilled to announce that Layerboom has been acquired by Joyent, a leading provider of Cloud Computing services and solutions. Here’s the press announcement.

It’s been a pretty fast paced life at Layerboom so far, having only been founded in May, 2009. We felt that with the competition ramping up so quickly the best way to continue with our project would be as part of a bigger team. It turns out that Joyent is a perfect fit for us and we’re really thrilled to be working on some exciting projects that you’ll no doubt hear about in the very short future.

A big thanks to Bootup & our Investors for taking a chance on a couple guys with a laptop and an idea, and a big congratulations to the Layerboom team for being persistent, forward thinking, and above all a pleasure to work with.

Cheers,

Howard Wu and Trevor Orsztynowicz

ps We’re hiring, so if you’re a developer and you’re looking for a killer opportunity send me an email.

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23
Mar 10

The Joulemeter – How much Power does a VM Use?

A team at Microsoft Research has been working on measuring energy usage in IT, and has come up with a novel piece of software called Joulemeter. From the website

Joulemeter is a software based mechanism to measure the energy usage of virtual machines (VMs), servers, desktops, laptops, and even individual softwares running on a computer.

Joulemeter estimates the energy usage of a VM, computer, or software by measuring the hardware resources (CPU, disk, memory, screen etc) being used and converting the resource usage to actual power usage based on automatically learned realistic power models.

They’ll apparent be offering a download of the software. In the meantime you can read the abstract.

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13
Feb 10

Layerboom to present at Under the Radar

As a start up doing big things, when we first heard about “Under the Radar” event, we figured how are we going to get on the radar for these folks ? We sent in our application, talked with Debbie and Jasmine  to pitch our product, the now so popular BoomBox. At the end of the day, among an ocean of applications and good ideas surrounding the cloud space, LayerBoom has been chosen to present at “Under the Radar” on April 16, 2010 in Mountain View, California. So if you’re around the Bay area in mid April, we look forward to seeing you there.

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