A Blog of the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
The 4th Open Cloud Day, which we co-organised with The Swiss Open Users Group (/ch/open), took place earlier this week. The event held a gathering of about 120 participants, from industry and academia together. There were in total 17 talks and 3 workshop sessions. Schlagwörter: /ch/open, CloudStack, Cyclops, events, hurtle, OpenCloudDay, Opennebula, opensource, openstack
Today the ICCLab introduces a new way on how to interact with your notes. http://icclab.github.io/powdernote/ What is powdernote? Powdernote is a note-taking, cloud-based application for the terminal. Why powdernote? Because we never leave the terminal, not even to read our notes or create new ones. This tool is for busy engineers, developers, power users, devops, … […]
Yesterday for the 4th time the ICCLab organized the SDN workshop at the University of Bern in cooperation with SWITCH. We had around 25 participants and 7 talks that tackled SDN in the world of cloud computing, NFV, IXP, video content delivery, high performance cloud, authentication request routing and access control etc. All these solutions […]
“The autoscaling cloud monitoring system that requires no manual reconfiguration” “Nagios OS autoconfigurator” (N_O_conf) is a cloud monitoring system that automatically adapts its monitoring behavior to the current user-initiated VM infrastructure. N_O_conf works by installing a cloud environment change listener daemon which is repeatedly polling the OpenStack API for changes in the VM infrastructure. As […]
In the context of the Cloud Native Applications (CNA) Seed Project we are working on migrating an open source CRM application into to the cloud. After enabling horizontal scalabilty of the original application and moving it onto our OpenStack cloud with the help of CoreOS (etcd, fleet) and docker we’ve now just finished adding the […]
“Measure and benchmark reliability of your OpenStack virtual machines.” “VM Reliability Tester” is a software that tests performance and reliability of virtual machines that are hosted in an OpenStack cloud platform. It evaluates the failure rate of VMs by performing a stress test on them. VM Reliability Tester installs OpenStack virtual machines, uploads a test […]
Last evening, we had our 10th OpenStack Switzerland User Group Meetup. The nice folks at Puzzle ITC hosted and sponsored the event in their premises. The meetup started with a warm welcome from Mr. Mark Waber, CEO of Puzzle ITC and our own Mr. Andy Edmonds, Senior Researcher in the lab. We quickly moved on […]
The 4th Open Cloud Day is ready and waiting for your participation. This event, which we co-organise with Swiss Open Systems User Group (/ch/open) is running for the 4th time having it’s first outing in 2012. Scheduled on the 16th of June 2015 at the University of Bern (event location plan), the event runs for the […]
[Note: This blog post was originally published on the XiFi blog here.] One of the main jobs performed by the Infrastructures in XiFi is to manage quotas: the resources available are not infinite and consequently resource management is necessary. In Openstack this is done through quotas. Here we discuss how we work with them in Openstack. Schlagwörter: […]