Greetings everyone!

The November NJUG meeting will be held at Emdeon Corporation on Tuesday
November 20th at 6pm. A map to the facility can be found here =>
http://voomr.com/NJUG . The presentation topic is as follows:

Topic: Taking Advantage of Web Scale Computing with Amazons Elastic
Computing Cloud (EC2)
Presenter: Gregg Boyle
Overview:  On demand computing power for literally pennies per hour is now a
reality for any developer or entrepreneur with a great idea and a little bit
of time. We will walk through what it takes to stand up a server, and deploy
an application in just minutes. The possibilities are endless for what this
solution can enable for any entrepreneur or person with a great idea but but
not a lot of money to get off the ground with a project. And of course, we
will be doing all of this with a command line toolkit built in java! :) BTW,
IBM announced today that it is also putting a cloud computing solution into
the market.  Lookout Software as a Service, here comes Hardware as a
Service!

Here is a summary of the EC2 service:

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is exposed via a set of web api's
that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to
make web-scale computing easier for developers. Amazon EC2's simple web
service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal
friction. It provides you with complete control of your computing resources
and lets you run on Amazon's proven computing environment. Amazon EC2
reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to
minutes, allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your
computing requirements change. Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing
by allowing you to pay only for capacity that you actually use.

Service Highlights

    * Elastic

      Amazon EC2 enables you to increase or decrease capacity within
minutes, not hours or days. You can commission one, hundreds or even
thousands of server instances simultaneously.

    * Completely Controlled

      You have complete control of your instances. You have root access to
each one, and you can interact with them as you would any machine.

    * Flexible

      You have the choice of several instance types, allowing you to select
a configuration of memory, CPU, and instance storage that is optimal for
your application.

    * Reliable

      Amazon EC2 offers a highly reliable environment where replacement
instances can be rapidly and reliably commissioned.

    * Secure

      Amazon EC2 provides web service interfaces to configure firewall
settings that control network access to and between groups of instances.

OK, back to business. The speaker for the December NJUG meeting with be
Java Evangelist Carol McDonald of Sun. You can get to her blog here =>
http://voomr.com/CarolMcDonald .

The following bio was borrowed from Sun's Tech Days site:

Carol McDonald is a Java Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems. As a
software developer for over 15 yrs , Carol's experience has been in the
technology areas of distributed network applications and protocols,
including Java EE technology, XML, Internet/Intranet applications, LDAP,
Distributed Network Management (CMIP,SNMP) and Email (X.400,X.500). Before
joining Sun Carol worked on a Car Loan Servicing application for Toyota,
Pharmaceutical Intranet applications for Roche in Switzerland, a Telecom
Network Management Application for Digital (now HP) in France, a X.400 Email
Server for IBM in Germany, and as a student intern for the National Security
Agency. Carol holds a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of
Tennessee, a B.S. in Geology from Vanderbilt University, and is a Sun
Certified Java Architect and Java Language Programmer. Carol is also Fluent
in French and German.

Carol is currently traveling across the globe speaking at Sun Tech days in
Asia, with a final 2007 speaking engagement at the Nashville Java Users
group. Carol as asked if it is possible for us to hold the December NJUG
meeting on the 19th or 20th instead of the 18th. What is everyone's thoughts
on this? Please let me know so we can plan and coordinate appropriately.

As usual, if anyone has any issues or questions give me a call 615.351.4178.
The address for the NJUG meeting locations is Meeting Location is : Emdeon
Corporation 26 Century Blvd, Nashville, TN 37214. Here is a link to a map of
the location. http://voomr.com/NJUG

Let me know
Thanx
gregg

--
Gregg Boyle
http://www.runningaroundinsquares.com
"If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even
less."  Eric Shinseki