A Blog of the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
We at ICCLab are embarking upon an exciting project to make a software development kit to enable SDN researchers develop exciting products and innovative protocols overcoming the challenges and drawbacks of decades old network protocols in use today. We had a huge debate internally to decide which programming language to use for this development. Since, […]
How does one remove a faulty/un/re-provisioned physical machine from the list of managed physical nodes in OpenStack nova? Recently we had to remove a compute node in our cluster for management reasons (read, it went dead on us). But nova perpetually maintains the host entry hoping at some point in time, it will come back […]
Openstack is generally well suited for typical use cases and there is hardly reasons to tinker with advance options and features available. Normally you would plan your public IP addresses usage and management well in advance, but if you are an experimental lab like ours, many a times things are handled in an ad-hoc manner. […]
Cloud has revolutionized the way we think of computing now. Now everything is on-demand, self-service, pay-as-you-go, and scalable. Although, these are welcome features that tremendously reduces the CAP-Ex and OP-Ex for any business, but the true potential of the clouds in regards to novel rating-charging and billing potentials has yet to be realized. Infrastructure clouds […]
The ICCLab was invited to give a talk on Interoperability and APIs in OpenStack at EGI Technical Forum which was co-located with Cloud Interoperability Week. The workshop and hands-on tutorial sessions took place between September 18-20, 2013 in the beautiful city of Madrid. The presentation sessions were followed by panel discussion where all the speakers […]
Of all the IaaS software stack available, the one gaining rapidly in popularity is OpenStack. It has a huge community behind it and it enjoys support from several large IT vendors therefore ensuring a clear and long development and support roadmap ahead. Naturally it makes a logical deployment choice by numerous cloud vendors across the […]
A thoughtful pricing strategy goes a long way! In my previous post, I tried to explain in brief the various steps that makes (or ought to make) up a general business accounting workflow. The process described in that post was adapted for the cloud service business context. Staying with the same theme, in this post […]
Step 1 – Careful financial planning and understanding the financial process Here at ICCLab, we do applied research covering the full spectrum of cloud services stack – Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and also Software as a Service (SaaS). Our researchers have been doing extensive research in automating the cloud […]
This page is kept for archiving. Please navigate to our new site: blog.zhaw.ch/splab. Description Financial accounting is a very critical process in the monetization process of any service. In the telecommunication world, these processes have long been documented, used, and standardized. Cloud computing being a relatively new paradigm, is still undergoing a transition phase. Many […]
This page is kept for archiving. Please navigate to our new site: blog.zhaw.ch/splab. Piyush Harsh is a researcher in ZHAW InIT Cloud Computing Lab. His research interest includes distributed self-* capable systems, nature inspired computing, authentication protocols, cloud computing, to name a few. Before joining ICCLab, Piyush was the development coordinator of WP5 in FP7 […]