A Blog of the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Making vehicles intelligent was one of the major topics this Wednesday. Transportation is an influential factor to economic growth, but it faces many challenges in the areas of safety, mobility (traffic jams) and protection of the environment. Building intelligent traffic surveillance systems is a major goal of US Department of Transportation researchers James Pol and […]
CloudStack: Build a Cloud Day Geneva, Switzerland. Sept 25th Come learn about Apache CloudStack, its features, its use cases and its community. 8:30-9:00 Coffee 9:00-9:30 Cloud Ecosystem at the Apache Software Foundation -Sebastien Goasguen, Citrix 9:30-10:10 Deploying Clouds in the Enterprise -Pierre Vacherand, Apalia 10:10-10:30 Break 10:30-11:10 A Swiss Cloud Provider: Exoscale -Antoine Coetsier, Exoscale 11:10-11:50 […]
Campus Party is an annual week long, 24-hours-a-day technology festival where thousands of “Campuseros” (hackers, developers, gamers and technophiles), equipped with laptops, camp on-site and immerse themselves in a truly unique environment.
It is the biggest electronic entertainment event in the world which unites the brightest young minds in technology and science under the idea that “the Internet is not a network of computers, it’s a network of people.”
In the third part of the SmartOS Series (check the first two parts: Intro and Virtualisation) we are going to deep dive into the SmartOS Storage: ZFS. ZFS is a combination of file system and logical volume manager originally introduced in Solaris 10. ZFS includes many features that are key for a Cloud OS such […]
From Report from the European Cloud Partnership Steering Board meeting of 4 July 2013 in Tallinn, 12 August 2013: “On 27 September 2012 the Commission adopted the European Cloud Strategy in the form of a Communication entitled “Unleashing the Potential of Cloud Computing in Europe”, in which it announced the intention to set up a […]
If you ever tried to implement High Availability in OpenStack by using Pacemaker, you might be disappointed by Pacemaker’s extremely slow recovery speed. Pacemaker recovers OpenStack at a very low pace – and even worse: it sometimes detects outages when they do not occur. As a result Pacemaker starts unnecessary computationally intensive recovery actions which […]
Mathias Hablützel is a researcher at the ICCLab with focus on network and socket programming. His interests are mainly network technologies, security and linux. Before he joined the ICCLab he attended the ZHAW with focus on system engineering and network technologies; his bachelor thesis implemented a sailing optimization software in co-operation with MeteoSchweiz.
Overview: Network Functions as-a-Service over Virtualised Infrastructures Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) is an emerging concept. It refers to the migration of certain network functionalities, traditionally performed by hardware elements, to virtualized IT infrastructures, where they are deployed as software components. NFV leverages commodity servers and storage, including cloud platforms, to enable rapid deployment, reconfiguration and elastic […]
Last week we started a new blog post series on SmartOS. Today we continue in this series and explore in details the virtualisation aspects of SmartOS. SmartOS offers two types of OS virtualisation: the Solaris-inherited container-based virtualisation, i.e. zones, and the hosted virtualisation ported to SmartOS by Joyent, KVM. Containers are a combination of resource […]