A Blog of the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
We organised (a very last minute call) Docker Switzerland User Group Meetup last night at the Swisscom offices in Hardbrücke, Zürich. Luke Marsden, CTO & Co-Founder of ClusterHQ, gave an insightful talk on “Docker, data and extension”. He spoke about Flocker, a manager for data volumes in Docker allowing for easily moving around storage (e.g., […]
The ICCLab organized the International Workshop on Automated Incident Management in Cloud (AIMC’15) in conjunction with EuroSys’15 Conference. Two members of the lab where present: Victor Munteanu which chaired the workshop and Florian Dudouet presented his papers. Schlagwörter: aimc, cloud incident management, workshop
Three ICCLab members were in sunny Würzburg for the ACROSS COST action meeting last week. ACROSS stands for “Autonomous Control for a Reliable Internet of Services” and our own TMB is a member of the management committee (MC) for Switzerland. For those of you unfamiliar with COST actions, they are an instrument for research funding […]
The first version of the Rating, Charging and Billing Dashboard is now available on Github! The dashboard is targeted towards a cloud service provider and their client. It has different views for an end user and a cloud administrator. The dashboard interacts with the different micro services of Rating, Charging & Billing to get the relevant data and […]
There are many different technologies which can increase availability of a cloud infrastructure. In our newest Techcouting paper we evaluate several HA technologies in order to define a HA architecture for an OpenStack deployment which is part of the XiFi project. HA technologies can be grouped in the following classes: Resource monitors that check if […]
In our previous blog posts we mostly focused on virtual machine live migration performance comparing pre-copy, post-copy and hybrid approaches in an Openstack context rather than exploring other live migration features. Libvirt together with the Qemu hypervisor provides many migration configuration options. One of these options is a possibility to use tunneled live migration. Recently […]
Balazs stumbled across the ICCLab when he was looking for a part-time employment during his master studies. He immediately got hooked on the technological challenges of cloud computing. At the Lab, Balazs is working in the Distributed Computing in the Cloud initiative, juggling with several state-of-the-art frameworks. Before he found his way to the ICCLab, […]