The introduction of the simplified clustering in CRX 1.4.1 (back in January 2009) kick-started the efforts to make CRX and CQ5 easily deployable into the Amazon cloud computing infrastructure.
A lot happend since then - most importantly - we got in touch with customers that have exactly the challenges we were looking to solve with cloud-based deployments. One of them being the ability to scale infrastructure for peak usage, without the cost of running all servers all the time. Of course, to set a good example, we run our own sites - such as www.day.com - on EC2.
Next week, we would like to give you an update of what we did so far and share the plans for the future.
On July 7th (Tuesday) we have a half day seminar in London. Sarah Burnett from Butler Group and myself will discuss the advantages and use cases to make best use of cloud computing infrastructure. This is a great event to get yourself familiar with the cloud computing topic and learn how you can apply that to your content management initiatives. Join the free seminar in London. Sign-up here.
On July 9th (Thursday) I'm going to broadcast my speech and discussions from London via a Webinar using WebEx. Feel free to sign-up to get the details to join the Webinar.
Personally, I believe the most exciting part of the cloud computing era are the new ways to solve challenges accepting the fact that almost unlimited computing resources are at your disposal (at a fairly decent price).