A Blog of the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
What happens when a group of experts from the Cloud Computing space and the Mobile/Telco industry get together in a meeting room? Last week the first General Assembly Meeting for the MobileCloud Networking (MCN) project was held in Palermo, with over thirty experts joining forces for four days to deliver an excellent result. The ICCLab […]
Call for Papers: 2nd Open Cloud Day Place: Plenumssaal, ZHAW, Campus Technikumstrasse 9, Winterthur Date: 11th June 2013 Audience: 100-150 participants Time: 09:00-17:00 Organisation 1. Pietro Brossi, ICCLab 2. Mark Waber, /ch/open, Puzzle ITC GmbH 3. Thomas Michael Bohnert, ICCLab 4. Matthias Günter, /ch/open, GnostX GmbH Motivation and Goal Cloud Computing becomes more and more […]
What does a sledge and a strategy have in common? Simple, the ICCLab Retreat and Sledging Event which took place in Lenzerheide – Switzerland last weekend. The event started 06:45 in Winterthur and yes, the team demonstrated impressively that this time is also at Saturdays no problem. When we arrived at the coach, there was the first problem […]
Like us in the ICCLab, you have likely spent lots of time researching the best means to deploy OpenStack and you’ve decided upon a particular method (at the ICCLab we use foreman and puppet). You’ve implemented OpenStack with your chosen deployment plan and technologies and you now have an operational OpenStack cluster. The question you now have to ask is: “How do I test that all functionality is operating correctly?”
“A Joint Research & Education Agenda between CloudSigma and Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), InIT Cloud Computing Laboratory (ICCLab)”
Cloud Computing is transforming the IT industry. It keeps constantly expanding and has grown up to a level which requires matching scientific initiatives and educational offers. That is why the ICCLab, at the Zurich University of Applied Science (ZHAW), and CloudSigma have united their efforts, experience, and expertise to produce a “Joint Research & Education Agenda”. The ICCLab is an establishing thought leader within many Cloud Computing research and innovation communities. CloudSigma, on the other hand perceives constant innovation and improved services as a founding principle on which it has built its business model. The “Joint Research & Education Agenda” initiative between CloudSigma and the ICCLab is one of few of its kind in Switzerland where an academic institution with the right focus and strategy is engaging with one of the world’s leading cloud infrastructure service providers.
So you have a new shiny OpenStack installation! Within that installation you may have differing classes of hardware and so you wish to be able to organise those classes
To organise your OpenStack deployment there are two concepts currently available: Availability Zones (AZs) and Cells. These allow you categorise your resources within an OpenStack deployment and organise those resources as you see fit. These is a very useful feature in order to offer different types of the same service. For example you might want to offer a compute service that runs on SSDs or plain spinning disks.
In this article we’ll describe OpenStack Availability Zones (AZs) and OpenStack Cells. We’ll also show how each differ.
The European commission recently released the outcomes of a number of cloud computing expert meetings in the form of a report. Members of the ICCLab have contributed to this report, “A Roadmap for Adanced Cloud Technologies under H2020”.
Recently we setup a server for version-control that can be used for internal and external projects here at the ICCLab. However, the service will not be available for public but the following hints may help you if you want to setup a similar appliance. Actually is gitorious our second choice, originally we want to use gitlabhq for this but […]
We (ICCLab and ZHGeeks) are pleased to announce the 2nd Swiss OpenStack Meetup. It will happen on the 19th of February in Zurich at ETH. If you’re keen and interested in attending then please register here. If you are interested in giving a talk then do give a shout out at the meetup site or simply message @OpenStackCH on twitter. Currently […]
1st international Workshop on Mobile Cloud Networking (MCN 2013)
http://mcn2013.unibe.ch
Organized in conjunction with IEEE International Communications Conference (ICC 2013) 9-13 June 2013, Budapest, Hungary.
The workshop will address the integration of two technologies that are expected to have significant impact in the ICT area for the next decade(s): next generation mobile communication networks (mainly 4G) and cloud computing. While mobile communication networks have been established decades ago and are still continuously evolving, cloud computing became a hot topic in recent years and is expected to have significantly impact on novel applications as well as on ICT infrastructures.