I’ve been enlisted by my employer, Dell, to speak about cloud software architecture JBoss World 2010 in Boston the week of June 21st.

My talk will expand on the “RAIN” posts that I’ve written before with some practical examples on our we are using Joyent to create applications using these models.

Here’s the abstract:

The need for hyper-scale and the lack of SLAs on public clouds has forced architects to stripe their applications across multiple servers. Similar to disk RAID striping, application striping creates redundancy using an array of inexpensive nodes (RAIN). This technique enables applications to have dramatic performance bursts while improving fault tolerance and reducing costs.

In this session, Rob will review how to use JBoss Enterprise Middleware to create a RAIN configuration using technologies available through the Dell Cloud Solution for Web Applications and on Joyent public cloud hosting. He will review the essential role of the virtual load balancer using Zeus ZXTM. Rob will also show specific architectures that can be implemented quickly and explain how ZXTM can deliver scale-out ready SQL read-write splitting without recoding.