<s>
Joyent	B-General_Concept
Inc	O
.	O
was	O
a	O
software	O
and	O
services	O
company	O
based	O
in	O
San	O
Francisco	O
,	O
California	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Specializing	O
in	O
cloud	B-Architecture
computing	I-Architecture
,	O
it	O
marketed	O
infrastructure-as-a-service	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
June	O
15	O
,	O
2016	O
,	O
the	O
company	O
was	O
acquired	O
by	O
Samsung	B-Application
Electronics	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Triton	O
,	O
Joyent	B-General_Concept
's	O
hosting	O
unit	O
,	O
was	O
designed	O
to	O
compete	O
with	O
Amazon	O
's	O
Elastic	B-General_Concept
Compute	I-General_Concept
Cloud	I-General_Concept
(	O
EC2	O
)	O
and	O
offered	O
infrastructure	O
as	O
a	O
service	O
(	O
IaaS	O
)	O
and	O
platform	B-Application
as	I-Application
a	I-Application
service	I-Application
(	O
PaaS	B-Application
)	O
for	O
large	O
enterprises	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
company	O
also	O
hosted	O
Twitter	B-Application
in	O
its	O
early	O
days	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Other	O
customers	O
include	O
LinkedIn	B-Application
,	O
Gilt	O
Groupe	O
,	O
and	O
Kabam	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
June	O
2013	O
Joyent	B-General_Concept
introduced	O
an	O
object	B-Application
storage	I-Application
service	O
under	O
the	O
name	O
Manta	O
and	O
partnered	O
in	O
September	O
2013	O
with	O
network	O
appliance	O
vendor	O
Riverbed	O
to	O
offer	O
an	O
inexpensive	O
content-delivery	O
network	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
February	O
2014	O
,	O
Joyent	B-General_Concept
announced	O
a	O
partnership	O
with	O
Canonical	O
to	O
offer	O
virtual	O
Ubuntu	B-Operating_System
machines	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Joyent	B-General_Concept
uses	O
and	O
supports	O
open	B-License
source	I-License
projects	O
,	O
including	O
Node.js	B-Language
,	O
pkgsrc	B-Application
,	O
Illumos	B-Application
and	O
SmartOS	O
,	O
which	O
is	O
its	O
own	O
distribution	O
of	O
Illumos	B-Application
,	O
featuring	O
its	O
port	O
of	O
the	O
KVM	B-Application
Hypervisor	O
for	O
abstracting	O
the	O
software	O
from	O
the	O
hardware	O
,	O
DTrace	B-Application
for	O
troubleshooting	O
and	O
systems	O
monitoring	O
,	O
and	O
the	O
ZFS	B-Application
file	O
system	O
to	O
connect	O
servers	O
to	O
storage	O
systems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Joyent	B-General_Concept
took	O
software	O
that	O
evolved	O
over	O
time	O
in	O
the	O
running	O
of	O
their	O
hosted	O
business	O
and	O
licensed	O
that	O
software	O
under	O
the	O
name	O
Triton	O
DataCenter	O
(	O
formerly	O
"	O
Triton	O
Enterprise	O
"	O
,	O
"	O
SDC	O
"	O
or	O
"	O
SmartDataCenter	O
"	O
)	O
to	O
large	O
hardware	O
companies	O
such	O
as	O
Dell	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
name	O
Joyent	B-General_Concept
was	O
coined	O
by	O
David	O
Paul	O
Young	O
in	O
the	O
second	O
half	O
of	O
2004	O
,	O
and	O
some	O
early	O
funding	O
obtained	O
from	O
Peter	O
Thiel	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
One	O
of	O
the	O
early	O
products	O
was	O
an	O
online	O
collaboration	O
tool	O
named	O
Joyent	B-General_Concept
Connector	O
,	O
an	O
unusually	O
large	O
Ruby	B-Application
on	I-Application
Rails	I-Application
application	O
,	O
which	O
was	O
demonstrated	O
at	O
the	O
Web	O
2.0	O
Conference	O
in	O
October	O
2005	O
,	O
launched	O
in	O
March	O
2006	O
,	O
open	O
sourced	O
in	O
2007	O
,	O
and	O
discontinued	O
in	O
August	O
2011	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
November	O
2005	O
,	O
Joyent	B-General_Concept
merged	O
with	O
TextDrive	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Young	O
became	O
the	O
chief	O
executive	O
of	O
the	O
merged	O
company	O
,	O
while	O
TextDrive	O
CEO	O
Dean	O
Allen	O
,	O
a	O
resident	O
of	O
France	O
,	O
became	O
president	O
and	O
director	O
of	O
Joyent	B-General_Concept
Europe	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Jason	O
Hoffman	O
(	O
from	O
TextDrive	O
)	O
,	O
serving	O
as	O
the	O
merged	O
company	O
's	O
chief	O
technical	O
officer	O
,	O
spearheaded	O
the	O
move	O
from	O
TextDrive	O
's	O
initial	O
focus	O
on	O
application	O
hosting	O
to	O
massively	O
distributed	O
systems	O
,	O
leading	O
to	O
a	O
focus	O
on	O
cloud	B-Architecture
computing	I-Architecture
software	O
and	O
services	O
to	O
service	O
providers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2009	O
,	O
Joyent	B-General_Concept
acquired	O
Reasonably	O
Smart	O
,	O
a	O
cloud	O
startup	O
company	O
with	O
products	O
based	O
on	O
JavaScript	B-Language
and	O
Git	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2010	O
,	O
Joyent	B-General_Concept
purchased	O
LayerBoom	O
,	O
a	O
Vancouver-based	O
startup	O
that	O
provides	O
solutions	O
for	O
managing	O
virtual	O
machines	O
running	O
on	O
Windows	O
and	O
Linux	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
June	O
16	O
,	O
2016	O
,	O
Samsung	B-Application
announced	O
that	O
it	O
was	O
acquiring	O
Joyent	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
June	O
6	O
,	O
2019	O
,	O
Joyent	B-General_Concept
announced	O
that	O
their	O
Triton	O
public	O
cloud	O
would	O
be	O
shut	O
down	O
on	O
November	O
9	O
,	O
2019	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
April	O
11	O
,	O
2022	O
,	O
Joyent	B-General_Concept
announced	O
that	O
MNX	O
Solutions	O
would	O
be	O
taking	O
over	O
the	O
Triton	O
DataCenter	O
technology	O
suite	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
TextDrive	O
and	O
,	O
later	O
,	O
Joyent	B-General_Concept
repeated	O
the	O
money-raising	O
procedure	O
a	O
number	O
of	O
times	O
in	O
order	O
to	O
avoid	O
the	O
venture	O
capital	O
market	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Joyent	B-General_Concept
raised	O
venture	O
capital	O
for	O
the	O
first	O
time	O
in	O
November	O
2009	O
from	O
Intel	O
and	O
Dell	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Joyent	B-General_Concept
's	O
early	O
institutional	O
investors	O
include	O
El	O
Dorado	O
Ventures	O
,	O
Epic	O
Ventures	O
,	O
Intel	O
Capital	O
(	O
series	O
A	O
,	O
B	O
Rounds	O
)	O
,	O
Greycroft	O
Partners	O
(	O
Series	O
A	O
,	O
B	O
Rounds	O
)	O
,	O
Liberty	O
Global	O
(	O
Series	O
B	O
Round	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
January	O
2012	O
,	O
Joyent	B-General_Concept
secured	O
a	O
new	O
round	O
of	O
funding	O
totalling	O
$85	O
million	O
from	O
Weather	O
Investment	O
II	O
,	O
Accelero	O
Capital	O
,	O
and	O
Telefónica	O
Digital	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
October	O
2014	O
,	O
Joyent	B-General_Concept
raised	O
an	O
additional	O
$15	O
million	O
in	O
series	O
D	O
funding	O
from	O
existing	O
investors	O
.	O
</s>
