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Description The widespread adoption and the development of cloud platforms have increased confidence in migrating key business applications to the cloud. New approaches to distributed computing and data analysis have also emerged in conjunction with the growth of cloud computing. Among them, MapReduce and its implementations are probably the most popular and commonly used for […]
Overview Cloud Incident Management is a new research direction which focuses on conducting forensic investigations, electronic discovery (eDiscovery), and other critical aspects of security that are inherent in a multi-tenant, highly virtualized environment, along with any standards that need to be followed. An Incident is an event which occurs outside the standard operation plan and […]
Overview Storage, together with computing and networking, is one of the fundamental parts of IaaS. The research initiative on cloud storage at ICCLab, under the Infrastructure theme, focuses on the exploration of the limiting factors of the available storage systems, aiming at identifying new technologies and providing solutions that can be used to improve the efficiency […]
This page is kept for archiving. Please navigate to our new site: blog.zhaw.ch/splab. Overview Since Amazon started offering cloud services (AWS) in 2006, cloud computing in all its forms became evermore popular and has steadily matured since. A lot of experience has been collected and today a high number of companies are running their applications […]
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 […]
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 […]