Joyent is introducing Infrastructure-as-a-Service to Europe, taking it into competition with big cloud hitters like Amazon and Rackspace. Joyent Cloud Europe will provide compute services out of its Amsterdam-based data centre, running it over the company’s proprietary cloud infrastructure platform SmartDataCenter, which is seen by the company as its key differentiator.

Helping run the SmartDataCenter is SmartOS, which Joyent claims provides tough security and uses Node.js, the server-side Javascript language that “is making machine-to-machine and big data computing more efficient than ever before”. SmartOS is based on the open source operating system Illumos.

Source: Tech Week Europe