A Blog of the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Cloud-Native Applications is a new research initiative which was launched by the ICCLab a couple of months ago. The initial time was used to gather knowledge on this very interesting and broad topic. For a detailed description of the initiative and cloud-native applications in general head to the initiative overview page. But all the knowledge […]
Introduction I have introduced Disaster Recovery (DR) services in the tutorial of last ICCLAB newsletter which also made an overview of possible OpenStack configurations. Several configuration options could be considered. In particular, in case of a stakeholder having both the role of Cloud provider and DR service provider, a suitable safe configuration consists in distributing […]
Beni Truninger is a researcher at the ICCLab, currently working on the Rating, Charging and Billing project. Before joinging the cloud computing team, he had already been at the InIT for two and a half years, participating in different projects in Information Security. Beni has a bachelor’s degree in IT from Zurich University of Applied Sciences […]
As mentioned in the first post about SmartDataCenter, it features various APIs. In this post we will have a look at them. Further I would like to present sdcadmin & sdc-heat, two small Python projects I have been working on. The former is a Python client library for SDCs admin APIs. The latter is an OpenStack […]
Overview Cloud computing means: On-demand self service Virtualization Elastic resource provisioning Cloud computing service is comparable to public utility services like gas, telephone or water supply. Economical value of cloud computing service is determined by reliability, availability and maintainability (RAM) characteristics. Availability impacts the value of cloud computing as it is perceived by end users. […]
Joyent recently open sourced the IaaS Platform SmartDataCenter and the Object Storage Manta, the software they use for their own service offerings. So, what’s all the buzz about? Why should you be excited? Why is it even worth talking (or in this case, writing) about SDC when we have OpenStack? In this blog post I will cover […]
Everyone in the lab wishing Victor a speedy recovery. Get well soon Victor..
How reliable are your OpenStack VMs? How many outages do you expect to occur during 8 months of operation? Do your VMs crash regularily, randomly or do VM outages increase over time? These questions can only be answered if we perform a reliability analysis of the virtual machines that we manage. In this small guide […]
At the beginning of this year the Cloud-Native Applications Seed Project (short: CNA Seed Project) was launched as described in this blog-post. The goal of the CNA Seed Project is to gain experience in what it takes to migrate an application into the cloud. So at the heart of this project lies the application that […]