Cloud Computing at JavaOne 2008

I’m excited about the cloud computing related content that was presented at JavaOne this year.

Sun announced a partnership with Amazon to offer OpenSolaris as an operating system choice on their Amazon EC2 (Elastic Computing Cloud) offering.

There were also two really great technical sessions I attended this year related to Java and Amazon EC2:

• How Can Amazon EC2 Benefit from the Elastic Grid Solution?
• Groovy on a Cloud: Testing Javaâ„¢ Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE Platform) Applications on Amazon EC2

Here is some more on the subject matter of these session from the presenters:

• Slides of the Elastic Grid BoF at JavaOne 08
• How To Start Rio on Amazon EC2

• Running Java EE applications on Amazon EC2: deploying to 20 machines with no money down
• Cloud Tools

These talks also introduced me to these great tools: ElasticFox and JetS3t. More on all this soon I hope!