The slides used for Devoxx have changed a lot from the ones we used to use for the past events. The demonstration was also different (no more video conversion demo but instead a Spring dm Server deployment). We will do our best to provide soon a screencast of the demo we did so that you can get an idea of what we did during the BoF.

Thanks for all of you who could come. We had some really interesting discussions after the talk. Devoxx is really a good place where to be in. Lots of interesting talks and really good opportunity for networking. It’s always a pleasure to put a face on a name.

Tomorrow morning is the day for the joint-conference with Amazon Technology Evanglist, Simone Brunozzi, so don’t forget to come for the conference at 9:30am.

It sounds like that Devoxx is going to be full of interesting news in the Cloud Computing World.

First of all if you missed it, Amazon just announced support for Amazon EC2 in Europe!

This is really good news as this was something slowing adoption of Cloud Computing in Europe. Many customers needed their servers to be running in Europe.

Their pricing model sounds quite reasonable to, although I really don’t understand why European customers have to pay more than the US customers. Anyway, all they have to work on now is a way to bill in EUR instead of USD. Support for FPS and DevPay with EUR currencies is a must have too.

So congrats to Amazon for that release, and for Sun Network.com initiative, rest in peace (what a pity… this could really have been something interesting if done differently).

Elastic Grid Website is now available at http://www.elastic-grid.com.

The website provides more information about Elastic Grid, what it brings to developers and users in need of deploying their applications on Cloud platform, and how to take advantage of SLAs in order to automatically scale without making any intrusion on the applications code.

As Elastic Grid relies on a Cloud Virtualization Layer, applications can easily be moved between Private Cloud platforms and Public ones.

A Wiki is now also available and will progressively be enriched with a lot of content explaining how to use Elastic Grid, and some sample deployments than can be easily done.

Elastic Grid will do a joint presentation with Amazon at Devoxx with Simone Brunozzi (Amazon Technology Evangelist in Europe) on December, 12th at 9:30am.

This conference will introduce you to Amazon Cloud Computing services, like EC2, S3 and CloudFront. During the conference we will also explain you how to deploy applications on EC2, but also how Elastic Grid helps Java developers to easily deploy and scale their applications.