A Blog of the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Equinix: Global Data Centers that Protect, Connect and Power the Digital Economy How can we ensure the vitality of the digital economy? This is the question Equinix’s founders asked in 1998 when the Web was revolutionizing information-sharing between businesses. Their answer was to offer businesses a place to reliably run and grow their operations and […]
CloudSigma: Innovative Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) through high availability, flexible cloud servers and cloud hosting Europe and the US. CloudSigma is an highly innovative Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider based in Zurich, Switzerland. CloudSigma was founded to meet the growing need for a pure IaaS that places little or no restrictions on how its users deploy their computing resources. […]
Description In this initiative we focus on bringing Platform as a Service (PaaS) to the ICCLab testbed, on top of OpenStack. We are investigating and evaluating all the requirements for running various open source PaaS solutions like Cloud Foundry (http://www.cloudfoundry.org), OpenShift (http://www.openshift.org) and Cloudify (http://www.cloudifysource.org) and extend the testbed for monitoring, rating, charging and billing on PaaS level. […]
Description Virtualisation is at the core of Cloud Computing and therefore its performance are crucial to be able to deliver a top-of-the-class service. Also, being able to provide the adequate virtualised environment based on the user requirements is key for cloud providers. SmartOS, a descendant of Illumos and OpenSolaris, presents features such as containers and […]
Description A monitoring system especially in a Infrastructure as a Service environment should be considered indispensable and required. Knowing which resources are used by which Virtual Machines (and tenants) is crucial for cloud computing providers as well for their customers. Customers want to be sure they get what they pay for at any time whereas […]
Description At the heart of the ICCLab is the Management Server, which provides an easy way to stage different setups for different OpenStack instances (productive, experimental, etc.). The Management Server provides a DHCP, PXE and pre-configured processes which allow a bare metal computing unit to be provisioned automatically, using Foreman, and then have preassigned roles installed, […]
Description To be interoperable means to imbue the common abilities of mobility to cloud service instances, to extract all service instance described by a common representation, to share all cloud service instance related data in and out of providers and to allow cloud service instances work together. To bring interoperability, it must be present at […]
The members of ICCLab and SPLab are actively contributing to the academic cloud computing and service-oriented application communities to stay at the forefront of technology. The following list contains some of the community services and involvements. Editorial Boards Regional Correspondent (Europe) for the IEEE Global Communications Newsletter of the IEEE Communications Magazine Editorial Board Member of the International Journal […]
We here in the ICCLab are very much interested in all activities related to standardisation in the Cloud. Standardisation forms part of our overall strategy in bringing impact to the communities we take part in. OCCI One of the standardisation activities on going in the ICCLab is our participation in the Open Cloud Computing Interface […]
OpenStack Source: OpenStack Website OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering their users to provision resources through a web interface. Learn more about OpenStack’s compute, storage, networking, or take a tour of the dashboard. Who’s behind OpenStack? […]