Latest News from Jerome Bernard

Elastic Grid Source Code Available Through Git

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:00:00 EDT

The Elastic Grid source code is now available for Git users too, through GitHub. The project can be found here: http://github.com/elastic-grid/Elastic-Grid/ where you’ll get instructions on how to clone the repository. This Git repository is kept in sync with the Subversion one.

Follow Elastic Grid on Twitter

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:00:00 EDT

If you are a big fan of Twitter, you can now follow all news related to Elastic Grid by following the ElasticGrid Twitter account.

Elastic Grid Announces Java API For Rackspace Cloud Servers

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:45:00 EDT

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.

Elastic Grid talk at Profict Java Spring Camp

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 04:34:59 EDT

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 [...]

Elastic Grid BoF at JavaOne 09

Sat, 30 May 2009 13:37:00 EDT

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 [...]

Elastic Grid talk at Cloud Computing Expo Europe in Pragues

Fri, 15 May 2009 13:55:01 EDT

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 talk at the OW2 Annual Conference / Solutions Linux

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:07:23 EST

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.

Typica 1.5 released! No easier way to use AWS in Java

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:53:37 EST

Typica 1.5 has just been released. This version brings a lot of new stuff like: EC2 enhancements: support for EU and regions, SDB enhancements: support for SQL like grammar (select, etc.), Bug fixes… … and of course the FPS API we’ve been working on. As Amazon announced plenty of FPS Quick Starts, you now don’t have any excuse for not using [...]

Support for Amazon FPS in Typica

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:06:43 EST

The support for the Amazon FPS API in Typica has been updated in Subversion a few days ago. The support for this API should be available anytime soon within the next release of Typica. As the FPS API is quite rich and offer lots of different use, feedback is critical in order to test and qualify [...]

Elastic Grid talk at QCon London 09

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:42:21 EST

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, [...]

Slides of the Elastic Grid BoF at Devoxx

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:47:59 EST

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 [...]

Amazon EC2 in Europe and Sun Network.com gone

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:19:14 EST

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 [...]

Official launch of Elastic Grid Website

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:10:38 EST

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 [...]

Joint Conference with Amazon at Devoxx

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:02:23 EST

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 BoF at Devoxx 08 (new name for JavaPolis)

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 05:00:51 EST

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 [...]

Cloud Computing: Are You Looking for IaaS or PaaS Provider?

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:14:53 EDT

If you’re in the SaaS (Software as a Service) business, and are following the Cloud Computing trends, you really need to understand the difference between the offers. Of course, I’m not talking about Cloud, like Apple’s Mobile :), but only Cloud Computing. As of today, we have at least 3 big players (Amazon, Google and Microsoft) [...]