JavaOne day 0: the cloud is here to stay

It was my first day at JavaOne 2010 today. And what a day! The kick off for me was the Glassfish community event. The room was packed with Glassfish users and developers. It was nice meeting in person people I have been reading and interacting with online for such a long time. There was a presentation on the Glassfish product roadmap and a break out for discussion of many Glassfish-related topics. I ended up in a very stimulating discussion about virtualization support in Glassfish. It is even more interesting in the light of what would be announced in the welcome keynote later on. In the Oracle OpenWorld welcome keynote there were some announcements, all related to cloud computing. First HP presented their view of the data center of the future, and in their view the data center is a private cloud. They demoed software for automating private cloud design and deployment. Their offering for the private cloud consists in a lot of boxes connected through HP networking gear running operating systems, hypervisors and applications from multiple vendors. Next came the Oracle keynote itself. From the moment Larry took the stage it was clear that his presentation would be all about the cloud. He started by defining cloud computing by comparing two services commonly associated with the term: salesforce.com and Amazon EC2. His vision is that cloud computing is more like Amazon EC2 than salesforce ( in other words, infrastructure as a servic...

Date: September, 20 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/jjviana/archive/2010/09/20/javaone-day-0-cloud-here-stay

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