HP Cloud Compute vs Joyent Cloud: What are the differences?

Developers describe HP Cloud Compute as "Deploy Scalable Virtual Servers on Demand". Now backed by an industry-leading Service Level Agreement, HP Cloud Compute delivers reliable computing resources to handle your production workloads. Configure and scale your capacity in an open cloud environment. With HP Cloud Compute, you gain control over your workloads while only paying for the resources you actually use. On the other hand, Joyent Cloud is detailed as "Cloud Infrastructure for Real-time Web and Mobile Applications". Joyent is the high-performance cloud infrastructure company, offering the only solution specifically built to power real-time web and mobile applications.

HP Cloud Compute and Joyent Cloud can be primarily classified as "Cloud Hosting" tools.

Some of the features offered by HP Cloud Compute are:

• Open. Avoid vendor lock-in by using open source-based architecture and standards-based APIs.
• Control. You have control of your instances and app development. Use root-level access to deploy applications, install required packages, and customize default security groups.
• Reliable. Performance and reliability are backed by HP’s Service Level Agreement with at least 99.95% monthly availability.

On the other hand, Joyent Cloud provides the following key features:

• Joyent offers exclusive debugging and performance analysis tools for Node.js applications.
• High-performance machines- Joyent Cloud uses fresh Nehalem/Westmere processors and 15k RPM HDs in our data centers. I/O throttling ensures that “noisy neighbors” won’t cause your application to perform poorly.
• Dynamic CPU scaling- Dynamic, real-time CPU scaling. Vertical bursting CPU capacity without user intervention or additional fees.