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Open Cloud Day 2013 Another successful Open Cloud Day 2013 held on 11-Jun-2013 in Winterthur in cooperation with /ch/open and ICCLab. Over one hundred participants from academies, operators, industries, SMEs and open source organisations attended the plenary, the two parallel sessions and panel discussion. Relevant presentations on OpenStack and CloudStack architectures were discussed by Muharem […]
Step 1 – Careful financial planning and understanding the financial process Here at ICCLab, we do applied research covering the full spectrum of cloud services stack – Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and also Software as a Service (SaaS). Our researchers have been doing extensive research in automating the cloud […]
The ICCLab here in ZHAW will be co-organising the Open Cloud Day 2013: 11th June 2013 here in Winterthur. /ch/open understands the importance of Cloud Computing, as does the ICCLab. To get the full power of clouds in the view of /ch/open these clouds should be open according of the principles open cloud initiative. The goal is to foster open clouds and interoperability of clouds.
In part 3 of our article series “Dependability Modeling on OpenStack” we have discussed that we should run Chaos Monkey tests on an OpenStack HA installation and then collect data about the impact of the attack. While we did say that we want to collect data about the implemented OpenStack HA architecture, we were not […]
Future trends of Mobile and Internet Communications are revealed at the Conference on Future Internet Communications 2013 in Coimbra, Portugal. The many different speeches and talks show that Cloud Computing could play a major role in future Mobile Communication networks. The first keynote speech of the Conference was held by Alexander Sayenko, researcher at Nokia […]
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 […]
Many thanks to Davide Panelli and Raffaele Cigni (Solutions Architects and co-founders) from Byte-Code for their visit and talk about a scalable e-commerce platform. Byte-Code is a SME based in Milan, Italy, providing IT consulting services to customers around the world. The company has a strong focus on Open Source solutions and strategic partnerships with leaders […]
Solidna is a project that is funded by the Commission for Technology and Innovation. Solidna will develop a core strategic cloud-based storage product and service area for a major Infrastructure as a Service provider (CloudSigma). The three key innovations that will be developed in Solidna are: 1. Upgraded Compute Storage Performance: this will focus on stability […]
The 4th European Future Internet Summit is coming up and features a talk by Thomas M. Bohnert on Cloud Computing and the Future Internet. This is meanwhile the third invited talk by our lab to this event series. We are therefore particulary proud to have the honor to host the 5th European Future Internet Summit […]