A Blog of the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
With Phase II getting into full force it is a particular honor for us to host the first Phase II face-to-face Architecture Board meeting of the Future Internet Public-Private Partnership. Important topics were addressed, like the previous SB meeting, the status of the current FI-PPP projects, first architecture discussions, status of FI-PPP capacities, and many […]
The ICCLab developed a new High Availability solution for OpenStack which relies on DRBD and Pacemaker. OpenStack services are installed on top of a redundant 2 node MySQL database. The 2 node MySQL database stores its data tables on a DRBD device which is distributed on the 2 nodes. OpenStack can be reached via a […]
The 2013 Summer School on Cloud Computing is on. From the 1st of July to the 26th, students from the Grand Valley State University as well as Zurich University of Applied Sciences will spent two weeks at each university, first stint at ZHAW and second at GVSU, enrolled into a Cloud Computing Summer School. GVSU […]
The OpenStack foundation is celebrating its 3rd birthday this year and the ICCLab will be, as always, helping out at this year’s OpenStack birthday celebration. The event will be held on Coast of Zurisee near China Gardens Bellerivestrasse 138 8008 Zürich on the 19th of July at 19:00. It is for everyone that is interested in […]
The work on cloud service relocation that is being investigated by the ICCLab was presented at USENIX HotCloud13. In FluidCloud we ask the key question of “How to intrinsically enable and fully automate relocation of service instances between clouds?“ and present an architecture to realise service relocation. Below you can have a look at the […]
As announced in previous posts, we report below the agenda of the Cloud Computing in Switzerland workshop, chaired by ICCLab from 8.45 AM to 10.45 AM today at the 30th birthday of the Swiss Informatics Society SI – the HES-SO Fribourg. 8:45 – 9:00 Intro by Christof Marti (ZHAW) Workshop introduction, goals and activities on Cloud […]
The SI represents the computer science profession in Switzerland: professionals with a university degree or equivalent qualification, educational and research institutes, and companies that contribute to computer science. It networks its members and represents their interests in politics, education, business and research. The 30th birthday of the Swiss Informatics Society will be holding a celebration […]
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 […]
If automation is required, Vagrant and Puppet seem to be the most adequate tools to implement it. What about automatic installation of High Availability database servers? As part of our Cloud Dependability efforts, the ICCLab works on automatic installation of High Availability systems. One such HA system is a MySQL Server – combined with DRBD, […]
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 […]