Vojtech joined the ICC lab through the IAESTE trainee programme.

He’s completed his  Masters study programme at the department of Computer science of the Technical University in Ostrava in Czech Republic. During his studies, he spent one year at Saimaa University of Applied Sciences in Finland participating in a double degree study program. His academic activities are mainly focused on computer vision and image segmentation.

Outside his studies, he has had diverse work experiences. He worked as a Web app Developer for Outotec Company during his stay in Finland. Afterwards he joined Verizon as a part-time Network Engineer for the period of time before he came to Switzerland.

ICCLab provides Vojtech a great opportunity to take  part in the fast moving  cloud computing industry and extend his horizons in this exciting field in a very international environment of young (and not so young!) technically talented people.

During his 10-month internship in ZHAW ICCLab he explored and compared different approaches for live virtual machine migration in an Openstack context. This work was done within the ICCLab’s energy aware cloud load management initiative.

Currently, he works on the ACeN KTI project focusing on network function virtualisation (NFV) in collaboration with two industry partners – Exoscale and Citrix.

Vojtech’s first day leads him to believe that besides the technical skills he will learn, he will also get unforgettable memories with new co-workers and friends.

The ICCLab will be present at the Nagios World Conference 2014, which takes place Oct. 13th-16th in St. Paul, MN, USA. Konstantin Benz will speak about the employment of Nagios as a tool to monitor OpenStack clouds. While Nagios is the de facto Open Source standard for monitoring IT systems, the OpenStack community uses Ceilometer to monitor VMs and other resources in the cloud. The main reason for that is the special requirements of rating, charging and billing in the cloud: VM usage must be stored persistently, even when a VM has been shut down and deleted by an end user. In standard monitoring contexts it is not necessary to store data of resources which are not present in the system anymore. Ceilometer does a quite good job in monitoring virtual resources. On the other hand a system administrator might not be interested only in monitoring the virtual resources which are provided by OpenStack: monitoring OpenStack itself is also a major task in administration of an OpenStack cloud. While Ceilometer is mainly used for monitoring resources provided by OpenStack, it does not monitor availability and performance of servers that deploy OpenStack services. Nagios is the industry standard for monitoring physical IT infrastructures. Therefore we will discuss the question on how to integrate Nagios with Ceilometer on the Nagios World Conference.

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Gabriel is an assistant at ZHAW InIT Cloud Computing Lab who started as an intern in August 2014. He finished his high school education to become a developer. He now started studying in the field of computer science and works part time at the lab.

Gabriel is working on the Cloud Storage initiative with Vincenzo Pii.

Yannic Itten is doing a one year internship in the cloud computing lab as part of his training to become an application developer. He is currently a student at an IT highschool called “Informatikmittelschule” in Frauenfeld, Switzerland. During his stay, he is working on the software defined networking project of the ICCLab.