A Blog of the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
The OpenStack foundation is celebrating its 3rd birthday this year and the ICCLab will be, as always, helping out at this year’s OpenStack birthday celebration. The event will be held on Coast of Zurisee near China Gardens Bellerivestrasse 138 8008 Zürich on the 19th of July at 19:00. It is for everyone that is interested in […]
The work on cloud service relocation that is being investigated by the ICCLab was presented at USENIX HotCloud13. In FluidCloud we ask the key question of “How to intrinsically enable and fully automate relocation of service instances between clouds?“ and present an architecture to realise service relocation. Below you can have a look at the […]
As announced in previous posts, we report below the agenda of the Cloud Computing in Switzerland workshop, chaired by ICCLab from 8.45 AM to 10.45 AM today at the 30th birthday of the Swiss Informatics Society SI – the HES-SO Fribourg. 8:45 – 9:00 Intro by Christof Marti (ZHAW) Workshop introduction, goals and activities on Cloud […]
The SI represents the computer science profession in Switzerland: professionals with a university degree or equivalent qualification, educational and research institutes, and companies that contribute to computer science. It networks its members and represents their interests in politics, education, business and research. The 30th birthday of the Swiss Informatics Society will be holding a celebration […]
Of all the IaaS software stack available, the one gaining rapidly in popularity is OpenStack. It has a huge community behind it and it enjoys support from several large IT vendors therefore ensuring a clear and long development and support roadmap ahead. Naturally it makes a logical deployment choice by numerous cloud vendors across the […]
If automation is required, Vagrant and Puppet seem to be the most adequate tools to implement it. What about automatic installation of High Availability database servers? As part of our Cloud Dependability efforts, the ICCLab works on automatic installation of High Availability systems. One such HA system is a MySQL Server – combined with DRBD, […]
A thoughtful pricing strategy goes a long way! In my previous post, I tried to explain in brief the various steps that makes (or ought to make) up a general business accounting workflow. The process described in that post was adapted for the cloud service business context. Staying with the same theme, in this post […]
Open Cloud Day 2013 Another successful Open Cloud Day 2013 held on 11-Jun-2013 in Winterthur in cooperation with /ch/open and ICCLab. Over one hundred participants from academies, operators, industries, SMEs and open source organisations attended the plenary, the two parallel sessions and panel discussion. Relevant presentations on OpenStack and CloudStack architectures were discussed by Muharem […]
Step 1 – Careful financial planning and understanding the financial process Here at ICCLab, we do applied research covering the full spectrum of cloud services stack – Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and also Software as a Service (SaaS). Our researchers have been doing extensive research in automating the cloud […]
The ICCLab here in ZHAW will be co-organising the Open Cloud Day 2013: 11th June 2013 here in Winterthur. /ch/open understands the importance of Cloud Computing, as does the ICCLab. To get the full power of clouds in the view of /ch/open these clouds should be open according of the principles open cloud initiative. The goal is to foster open clouds and interoperability of clouds.