Amrita Prasad is the new business development and community manager at ICCLab. Before joining ICCLab she was the fundraiser volunteer at ROKPA International in Zurich, raising funds for the education of poor children in Zimbabwe. She has had numerous work experience right from brief stints at University of Florida where she held baby alligators for Reptile exhibitions, to preparing and cataloguing python heads. She has masters in International Business from University of Birmingham, UK.

She is responsible for the business development of the lab, looking after the lab’s business relations and also organising their several events (community related activities). She brings with herself experiences that she gained while living in UK, USA, France and now in Switzerland. In her free time, she loves photography and sometimes poetry!

Contact: amrita.prasad[at]zhaw.ch

by Josef Spillner

This is to announce the next Concertation meeting on “Network Technologies – Future Internet Architectures Cluster” is going to take place on 25.03.2015 in Brussels, collocated with Net Futures 2015.

Since the previous meeting on 22nd Oct 2014, 7 new projects have been joined and included in the cluster (these are BEBA, ENDEAVOUR, NEAT, POINT, reTHINK, RIFE and UMOBILE). Each of them will be holding a short presentation on their objectives and methodology during the meeting. 2 projects (eCOUSIN and LEONE) coming to an end will be presenting their main achieved results.

Next in the agenda items, there is a timeslot of 90 minutes for short presentations and open discussion on “SDN/NFV and Network Apps”, addressed by many ongoing projects.

The meeting is from 9:00 to 12:30 and all the information, including registration, can be found on http://netfutures2015.eu/.

The agenda of the meeting is,

(March 25, 2015, Brussels)

9:00 – 9:10 Welcome

9:10 – 9:30 Presentation results of recently finished cluster projects eCOUSIN LEONE (10′ each including Q&A)

9:30-10:30 Presentation objectives of new cluster projects BEBA ENDEAVOUR NEAT POINT reTHINK RIFE UMOBILE (5′ each plus Q&A)

10:30-10:50 Coffee break

10:50-12:20 “SDN/NFV and Network Apps – a view from the cluster”

– Short presentations (≤ 3 slides) from the projects

– Open discussion

– Preparation of short paper with joint vision

12:20-12:30 Closing: next steps

Following from our successful and fun outing at the Openstack Summit in Paris (read all about our adventures here, here and here ) at which Vojtech and Srikanta gave talks on live migration and rating, charging and billing respectively (videos here), we’re getting prepped up for the next one in Vancouver.

This time out, we’ve thrown our hat into the ring twice. Victor has put something together on his adventures with Monasca and I’m hoping to talk a bit about our energy focused work.

We’ll describe our preliminary development on Watchtower which is a Cloud Incident Management solution that is built on a bunch of technologies including Monasca, Camunda, and Rundeck. It provides workflow and process automation empowered by BPMN 2.0 for handling the incidents’ lifecycle, and runbook automation in order to resolve them automatically. Vote here if you’re interested in this.

On the energy side, we’re hoping to talk about our work on our Kwapi based energy monitoring tool and some of the work we have been doing on advanced energy based control systems for openstack which leverage live migration mechanisms to ensure energy efficiency is maximized. Vote here if you’re interested in hearing about this at the summit (or if you’re interested in this generally!)

We’re really looking forward to seeing what’s new in Openstack in Hollywood North in May!