A Blog of the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
The Swiss Distributed Computing Day is an annual meeting of users and providers of distributed computing technologies. This year’s theme is “Supporting Science with Cloud Computing” and it will be held on November 19 2012 at the University of Bern. The event is free of charge and the registration deadline is November 15th.
The ICCLab (Andy and Thomas) is invited to participate to the next meeting of the Cloud Expert Group which will take place in October 29-30, 2012 in Brussels.
The previous work of the Cloud Expert Group (“Advances in Clouds”) has clearly shown that Cloud Computing still requires research and development work in multiple domains (e.g. software & services, networks, security, complex systems, etc.).
We would like to announce the 7th Workshop (Fachgespraech) on Next Generation Service Delivery Platforms, “Cloud-based Service Platforms for the Future Internet”, of the GI/ITG specialist group on Communications and Distributed Systems “Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme (KuVS)”.
29th of November 2012, Technopark Building, Jägerstrasse 2, CH-8406 Winterthur, Room LT AE130, Winterthur, Switzerland
Special thanks to Stephan Haller (Head of Solution & Service Delivery – International) for his visit and talk about Vigience’s cloud applications and services.
In coordination with ZH-Geeks, the ICCLab will be hosting the very first Swiss OpenStack user group meeting on the 15th of Novemeber. In addition to Tim Bell there will be a number of other speakers who will present on various OpenStack topics. Tim Bell runs the infrastructure team at CERN where they run a very […]
Ewald Maria Mund is senior lecturer at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences. After a computer science degree (Dip.Inform) from the University of Karlsruhe in 1977, he joined Hewlett-Packard Germany as software engineer and was soon promoted to a senior software engineer position (1971-1981). From 1982-1984 he was with Cap Gemini Switzerland as Ingenieur en Chef until he […]
Lucas Graf is pursuing his Bachelor of Science degree at ZHAW. He is in the sixth semester. In 2009 he finished his apprenticeship as a computer specialist before he began his study in Information Technology at ZHAW. He contributes as research assistant to the cloud computing research of the ICCLab, in particular investigating and developing […]
Mobility, ubiquity, and simply anywhere, anytime, anything combined with on-demand services and the powers of the Cloud. Mobile and Cloud Computing seems to be a natural match. But Mobile Cloud Computing lacks an accepted and technically sound definition. Instead, these terms are frequently used for marketing purposes and thus blurring (and devaluing) the actual potential of […]
A remarkable and wonderful feature of Zurich is its vivid computer science and technology community. Hardly any week passes without an interesting event around new innovations and technologies, like the Internet of Things, novel programming languages (Go, etc), security, and of course Cloud Computing technologies (e.g. MongoDB) [footnote1]. Particularly interesting – from our / ICCLab perspective – is the ZhGeeks (@zhgeeks) community, run by one of our fellow technology and cloud evangelists Muharem. Last weeks Zhgeeks meeting was about Open Cloud and no less prominent figure than Samj was about to update us on the Open Cloud Initiative. A truly inspiring talk (download slides).
Notwithstanding of Sam’s comprehensive and sound introduction into the world of “Cloud Openness” (from an OCI perspective) I can’t help but have to ask myself – hellya, what is this Open Cloud thing?
Luke Gorrie, founder of http://www.snabb.co/, pioneer, and serial make-it-happener (call it entrepreneur) in the network technology domain, came over to visit the ICCLab to discuss future research and engineering domains of Software Defined Networking (SDN).