New York and San Francisco (August 25, 2010) — Joyent, the premiere provider of smart computing solutions, today announced the launch of its Smart Solution for Digital Agencies, a new one-stop-shop program designed to meet the unique needs of digital development agencies with infinitely scalable capacity backed by professional services to empower innovation and reduce project start-up costs. Joyent debuted the new offering at Digital DUMBO #19, a gathering of the technology community in the Brooklyn neighborhood of New York City.

“Joyent has a long history of supporting the app development efforts of the most progressive digital agencies with the high-performance, stable capacity they need to rapidly scale their applications to meet client demands,” said Adrian Ludwig, Vice President of Marketing with Joyent. “With this new Smart Solution, we looked at the whole production lifecycle and optimized our platform to deliver an end-to-end service tailored specifically to meet the needs of a digital agency, all the way from test dev through production and the infrastructure to deliver the entire campaign.”

Backed by Joyent’s unique capacity to support rapid spin-up or spin-down of resources on demand, the new Smart Solution for Digital Agencies leverages Joyent’s innovative Smart Technologies to provide critical resources for the creation of interactive content, games and media, including:

• Free access to smart computing infrastructure during the build process to enable more efficient and affordable start-up and eliminate up-front investment in capacity to help protect critical cash flow, particularly when building on spec.

• Free professional services from Joyent solution architects to assist agencies in effectively building high-scale, high-performance infrastructure, relieving agencies of the capacity management burden and allowing them to concentrate on innovation and creativity.

• End-to-end infrastructure availability that eliminates the hand-off of assets when a project moves into production. This ability to provide complete campaign services—from development to delivery—reduces the risk of incompatibility and provides agencies with greater flexibility in meeting customers’ needs.

• Added revenue opportunities are available through a new reseller license program. Agencies can bundle discounted app delivery into their product pitch for a more comprehensive package, or take advantage of a referral compensation program for recommending the Joyent Smart Technologies to their clients.

“Joyent delivers world class infrastructure that we rely on to launch massively scalable Facebook applications,” said Rafi Jacoby, Director of Research and Development with Context Optional, an award-winning social marketing company that helps Fortune 500 brands build, moderate and track their social presence. ”Joyent understands the unique needs of developers and provides a service that enables our team to focus more on innovation and less on infrastructure management.”

Joyent partnered with Traffic Marketplace to sponsor the Digital DUMBO #19 “Let’s Get Social” mixer event at The Dumbo Loft in Brooklyn.

For more information about Joyent’s Smart Solution for Digital Agencies, visit www.joyent.com.

About Joyent
Joyent is the premier Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider offering cloud computing solutions worldwide since 2004. Delivering billions of page views per month, Joyent’s Smart Technologies improve performance, scalability, manageability and security for thousands of web and mobile applications. Serving a network of service providers and thousands of customers, Joyent is the only company that runs a major public cloud infrastructure, builds the technologies that power that infrastructure, and uses those technologies to enable multiple third-party public, private, and hybrid clouds.

Joyent is a leading infrastructure provider for some of the fastest growing businesses on the Web, including:

Kabam (formerly Watercooler) supports millions of users every day on Joyent architecture.

LinkedIn delivers billions of pages each month using Joyent infrastructure services.

Country Life has used Joyent’s high performance infrastructure to scale quickly to over 8 million monthly active users on Facebook with great gameplay

Gilt Group, one of the world’s fastest growing eCommerce businesses, has been able to reduce costs significantly by building on Joyent infrastructure.

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Some of the most important considerations to obtain performance and scale in the cloud include:

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