Windows IT Pro and Oracle present virtual cloud computing conference

Windows IT Pro's European arm has teamed up with Oracle to present a major online cloud computing conference that will be held next month.

Oracle's Enterprise Java Cloud Strategies Virtual Conference will take place on September 9. Seminars will be conducted in English with a choice of subtitles in French, German, Spanish or Italian. Registration is free.

Cloud computing is on nearly every IT professional’s mind these days for good reason, say the conference's organisers, as the cloud represents their next logical step. According to Oracle, companies have been rolling out consolidation, shared services, grid computing and virtualisation technology with "great faith" and are now starting to see glimmers of benefits in efficiency, flexibility and time-to-market. The corporation is keen to point out that in the "vast majority" of enterprise-level data centres, the infrastructure underlying these efforts is built in Java.

The Enterprise Java Cloud Strategies Virtual Conference will kick off with a keynote session from Mike Piech, senior director of product marketing at Oracle, who has  responsibility for the Java platform as well as middleware such as WebLogic, GlassFish, Coherence, JRockit, Tuxedo and JDeveloper. Piech will look at the latest developments in cloud computing and particularly the private cloud. He will highlight the most important things IT pros need to know when considering cloud capabilities, especially in the context of the infrastructure investments they have already made.

Next, Oracle SOA and application grid consultant  Andrew Gregory will present a session on private cloud development with Java EE and Oracle Java technologies. According to Gregory, the behind-the-firewall possibilities of private PaaS offer enterprise developers an entirely new landscape of innovation opportunity. Java SE, EE and application grid capabilities will play a critical role in both creating PaaS infrastructure and applications that are enabled for and run on PaaS, he says.

Gregory will explain how recent innovations like Oracle's Virtual Assembly builder make Java virtualisation and private clouds simpler and how a template-based cookie-cutter approach allows for error-free, ultra-fast provisioning of entire internal system topologies. This ties in well with the last session of the day at 2pm when Robert B. Mendelsohn, Oracle Fusion middleware sales consulting manager, will talk about the use of assemblies for ultra-fast deployment in private cloud environments.

Enterprise software development involves much more than writing some code, compiling it and handing it off to your ops department to run in production, says Mendelsohn. It entails a well-managed synergy across development, architecture and run-time. He says that viewers of his session will learn about the development and architecture best-practices for Oracle application grid offerings that result in scalable, reliable and adaptable applications.

For more details and free registration, see the Oracle Enterprise Java Cloud Strategies Virtual Conference website.