Joyent, the global provider of cloud computing solutions, and Nexenta Systems, the leader in OpenStorage solutions, today announced a strategic partnership that provides Service Providers with an end-to-end cloud services and storage solution that is simply unattainable by Amazon and other legacy cloud providers. The solution includes the most efficient cloud software in the world, which requires lower infrastructure investment thanks to higher hardware utilization rates, faster performance, and cloud analytics that give visibility into the software stack and stored data, and the most efficient cloud storage in the world, which runs on industry standard commodity hardware and drastically reduces storage costs.

With the partnership agreement, Joyent’s SmartDataCenter 6, an integrated suite of software and services, and Nexenta’s NexentaStor, the world’s leading open storage solution that provides enterprise grade features like de-duplication, thin-provisioning, compression, unlimited scalability, inherent virtualization and data protection, come together to deliver a turnkey offering to Service Providers. By supporting open APIs, multi-tenancy and operational efficiency combined with the economics of industry standard commodity hardware, the Joyent/Nexenta solution is the best choice for Service Providers to build and launch public, private and hybrid clouds.

Unlike other cloud software providers who employ inefficient hardware virtualization, SmartDataCenter 6 uses lightweight operating system virtualization, delivering as much as 70% higher utilization rates –hence decreasing Service Providers’ costs and increasing profit margins. Joyent’s efficient cloud architecture also leads to higher performance: Recent benchmarks comparing Joyent and Amazon EC2 show that Joyent outperformed Amazon EC2 in CPU, Disc I/O and Memory I/O by as much as 14X.

SmartDataCenter 6 includes cloud analytics that give real-time visibility throughout the software stack and stored data into latency or other problems that can be addressed before downtime or outages occur. This transparency helps Service Providers avoid unnecessary equipment purchases to accommodate unexpected outages.

Service Providers’ clients demand scalable architecture that supports highly variable workloads and users – characteristics typical of next-generation web applications. SmartDataCenter 6 includes Node.js, a development environment and runtime that handles data-intensive real time applications found in social media, gaming, mobile applications, and machine to machine computing markets.