Cloud computing will be very well represented this year at JavaOne.  There are 22 sessions about Cloud Computing at this year's JavaOne Conference from June 2-5 in San Francisco.  The sessions this year include:

• Continuous Integration in the Cloud with Hudson
• A panel on Cloud Computing: Show Me the Money
• Seeding the Cloud: Developing Scalable Applications for the Cloud
• Drizzle: A New Database for the Cloud
• Storing Data in the Cloud

In addition there are speakers from Sun Microsystems, IBM, Google and Amazon.  You can see these and all the Cloud Computing oriented sessions here.  You can see the session catalog for JavaOne here.

 See you at JavaOne.

 Russ Castronovo

Sun Distinguished Engineer, Glenn Brunette has another Kenai project he's created as part of his efforts to raise awareness of the security of data stored in the.  Its called "ZFS Encrypted Backup to S3"  (zfs-backup-to-s3) and builds upon the foundation provided by the ZFS Automatic Snapshot service by offering a simple and easy to use way of saving encrypted ZFS snapshots in the Cloud.  These snapshots can be retrieved and decrypted using the s3-crypto tool mentioned in the previous post..

This software project only supports the Solaris Cryptographic Framework (on OpenSolaris) at this time.  It supports the use of a
protected encryption key file or a PKCS#11 token for its encryption operations.

This tool has been tested with Amazon S3 and the Sun Cloud Storage Service.  There's a project for this on Kenai where you
can view the code and documentation, download the tools and contribute to the projects and discussions.  Access it here.