A Blog of the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Last week the ICCLab’s RCB Initiative released a new Cyclops code base with added support for CloudStack platform. Until last week’s release Cyclops came with native support for OpenStack only. Now Cyclops’ Dashboard can properly associate CloudStack user account details and the Cyclops UDR micro-service can pull CloudStack meters list and associated usage data for further processing […]
Inside the Software Defined Networking initiative we are developing a Software Development Kit for SDN, called Netfloc. NETwork FLOws for Clouds (Netfloc) is a programmable framework solution for software defined datacenter networks. It leverages network management by offering to the network developers a set of libraries packed as Java bundles for the OpenDaylight controller. Netfloc also exposes […]
In one of our projects, FICORE the continuation of FIWARE, we need to offer an Openstack-based service. One aspect of service operations is to understand the performance of the system and one particular aspect of this is to understand how long basic operations take; it is interesting to see how this evolves over time as, […]
The RCB initiative is happy to announce that Cyclops, our Rating-Charging-Billing solution for Cloud providers, now supports Cloudstack framework as well as external application specific Event based rating, charging and billing. Not only that, we now have a cool logo as well. There are several novel features in the pipeline, and as the RCB initiative now has more researchers on board, one can […]
We are extremely happy to announce that the 5th Open Cloud Day is going to take place at ZHAW, Winterthur, on the 16th of June this year. We co-organise the Open Cloud Day with the Swiss Open Systems User Group. The main goal of the event is to foster open […]
We received our RPLIDAR this morning and, just as kids on Christmas day, we were very eager to play with it right away. But I’ll hold my horses, as I can hear you ask: “and what exactly is a RPLIDAR?” A RPLIDAR is a low cost LIDAR sensor (i.e., a light-based radar, a “laser scanner”) […]
Title: SCALE-UP: Services for the Swiss Cloud for Academic and Learning Experts Coordinator: SWITCH Consortium: Zurich University of Applied Sciences, ZHAW University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Northwestern Switzerland, FHNW Fernfachhochschule Schweiz, FFHS University of Berne, UNIBE University of Basel, UNIBAS Università della Svizzera Italiana, USI École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL University of St.Gallen, UNISG […]
Title: Amysta SaaS – A Comprehensive hybrid cloud cost management platform Industry Partner: Apalia Research Partner: ICCLab, ZHAW Funded By: Commission for Technology and Innovation Summary: Cloud computing is increasingly providing the resource and computing needs of businesses and enterprises worldwide. With well known companies adopting a cloud based operating roadmap, the confidence in the business […]
Martin Skoviera is a researcher at ICCLab, InIT ZHAW, focusing on the Rating-Charging-Billing initiative and its OpenSource solution – Cyclops. Martin received his Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Master’s degrees in Management and Information Technologies from Brno University of Technology. Martin also has an MBA specialising in International Business and Trade Management from the Ligs […]
The year 2016 has arrived. I hope you had an excellent time with family for the Christmas and New Year celebrations and are prepared for 2016 with vigour and motivation. Looking back at the year 2015, we witnessed a plethora of events around the world that will shape a different tomorrow. Detrimental changes in technology, […]