Elastic Grid, LLC is pleased to announce the Elastic Rack project.

As part of Elastic Grid project commitment to provide a cloud virtualization layer, the Elastic Grid team was in need of a Java API which would drive the Rackspace Cloud Servers API. This Java API is now available as a separate bundle in the Elastic Rack project.

This open-source project aims to provide Java APIs to the Rackspace Cloud APIs so that Java developers can easily call Rackspace APIs. As of today, there is only experimental support for Cloud Servers API.

The project is hosted on Google Code at: http://elastic-rack.googlecode.com. The issues tracker is available on Jira at: http://jira.elastic-grid.com/browse/ER.

I will do a presentation of Elastic Grid at Profict Java Spring Camp in June, 19th. The two hours time-slot will give way more time than usually so I will be able demonstrate some few deployments made on EC2.

Feel free to join nearby Amsterdam and enjoy at the same time a beautiful place with a barbecue at the end of the day.

You can both subscribe and get more information on the Profict Java Spring Camp website.

Dennis Reedy will do a joint-presentation with one of our customers, Ronald Bowers, working for the Army Research Lab, during JavaOne 09. This BoF is schedule on Wednesday, June, 3rd at 7:45pm.

Here is the abstract of the session called Cloud Computing and NetBeans™ IDE Enable Army Research Lab’s Next-Generation Simulation System

This presentation provides an overview of how the Army Research Laboratory’s (ARL’s) MUVES 3 project is using cloud computing and the NetBeans™ IDE rich-client platform (RCP). It reviews the MUVES 3 architecture, along with the Java™ technologies that are used to develop it. The session also shows how the combination of a NetBeans IDE RCP client application with a dynamic, service-oriented architecture (SOA) back end can be used to construct sophisticated, high-performance environments. It also discusses the MUVES 3 team’s experiences in performing continuous integration by using Hudson and testing the system on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud with Elastic Grid.

ARL analyzes combat system survivability and munition lethality against enemy systems. The goal of the MUVES 3 project is to develop an integrated environment to support this analysis mission. On the server side, the MUVES 3 system must be capable of executing concurrent simulation jobs, supporting a large analyst community. Although national security concerns prohibit running an actual MUVES 3 analysis on the cloud, the system architecture can be tested on it. This enables ARL to test MUVES 3 and evaluate system performance, scalability, and fault tolerance across numerous computers cost-effectively. The NetBeans IDE RCP provides the framework on which the MUVES 3 user interfaces are built. It is used both as a client platform to the cloud and as a client to the massively scalable simulation system.

Elastic Grid team will do a presentation of Elastic Grid in Prague during Monday, 18th at 2:50pm.

The schedule for this conference looks very promising.

We will be happy to meet you there and discuss. We will stay there ’til Friday, 22nd.

Elastic Grid team will do a talk during the OW2 Annual Conference, collocated with the Solution Linux conference, in Paris, France.

The programme for these conferences is now available and registration is open. Our talk is scheduled on April, 2nd at 4:30pm.

We hope to see you there.

Elastic Grid team will do a talk for QCon London 09, titled Dynamic deployment and scalability for the cloud on March, 10th at 3:30pm.

The abstract for this session:

Cloud Computing providers allow a fantastic way to deploy scalable machine images easily and on demand. However, there is a finer grain of scalability that must be provided, allowing individual application assets to easily scale to meet the demands of a running system. Our session discusses the Elastic Grid, an approach that provides dynamic allocation, management and scalability of applications through the cloud.

Intrinsic to the Elastic Grid are a set of dynamic capabilities and reliance on Policy-based and Quality of Service mechanisms that extend capabilities currently found in available cloud computing technologies.

Being able to inject rules & policies into cloud focused infrastructure allows greater automation, scalability and controlled behavior. Ultimately, cloud based deployments can provide advanced capabilities surrounding self-healing, self optimization & self configuration. The Elastic Grid provides an approach using a cloud focused Domain Specific Language to declaratively include behavior as SLA policy declarations.

Discover how to easily deploy your Java applications (but not only!) on the Cloud (especially Amazon EC2) during this BoF with both an introduction to how Elastic Grid ease deployments, a real demo done live and some feedback from real uses cases.

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.

Update: the slides have been published!

We are thrilled to be present this year in Antwerp, Belgium for Devoxx. Our talk, Dynamic deployment and scalability for the cloud will be on Monday, 8th at 9:00pm.

We really hope to see you there for one of the biggest Java developers event in Europe.

Here is the abstract of our session:

Cloud Computing providers allow a fantastic way to deploy scalable machine images easily and on demand. However, there is a finer grain of scalability that must be provided, allowing individual application assets to easily scale to meet the demands of a running system. Our session discusses the Elastic Grid, an approach that provides dynamic allocation, management and scalability of applications through the cloud.

Intrinsic to the Elastic Grid are a set of dynamic capabilities and reliance on Policy-based and Quality of Service mechanisms that extend capabilities currently found in available cloud computing technologies

Being able to inject rules & policies into cloud focused infrastructure allows greater automation, scalability and controlled behavior. Ultimately, cloud based deployments can provide advanced capabilities surrounding self-healing, self optimization & self configuration. The Elastic Grid provides an approach using a cloud focused Domain Specific Language to declaratively include behavior as SLA policy declarations.

Discover how to easily deploy your Java applications (but not only!) on the Cloud (especially Amazon EC2) during this BoF with both an introduction to how Elastic Grid ease deployments, a real demo done live and some feedback from real uses cases.

Elastic Grid team will be present in early afternoon on December, 2nd in Paris at the Open World Forum for a panel titled Technological and economic breakthroughs: Challenge or opportunity for FLOSS?

Abstract:

What impacts will SAAS, Cloud Computing, Ambient Computing… have on FLOSS, and what challenges will they bring? Do the new technological and business model breakthroughs represent a threat or an opportunity for FLOSS?

We hope to see you there. Feel free to get in touch with us during/after the conferences.

The OW2 Quarterly Meeting happened yesterday morning. We did our official introduction of Elastic Grid to the Technical Council and we can now announce Elastic Grid being part of the OW2 Community.

We had been already working with some of its members and some of the OW2 projects for a while, like XWiki and eXo Portal, so this move will ease partnerships with some of the other projects.

So now our project page on OW2 is available at http://forge.objectweb.org/projects/elastic-grid/. Our Subversion repository is also available until we complete our roadmap for the first release. Some mailing-lists have also been set up and you can subscribe to them.

We are thrilled by the opportunity to be part of the OW2 Community!