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.

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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 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.