ElasTest Passes European Commission’s Review Successfully!
On July 18th in Brussels project partners presented ElasTest results and progress to the EC. The review was a success and there ZHAW reported and demonstrated their key inputs.
Tag: billing
Cyclops 2.0 supports Ceilometer Data Collection!
As announced in our last blogpost about the official release of Cyclops 2.0, which is finally out and is adding new features. The collector that is being released today is the Ceilometer Usage Collector. This collector enables Cyclops 2.0 to provide full rating, charging and billing support to an OpenStack deployment using the data provided by Ceilometer. In addition […]
Cyclops 2.0 is here!
Our flagship open-source framework for cloud billing – Cyclops has matured to version 2.0 today. Over the past several months, Cyclops team at ICCLab have gathered community feedbacks, worked systematically updating and re-updating the framework core architecture to make the whole work-flow of billing of cloud services clean and seamless. The core components in principle […]
OpenStack Nova Events are now Billable with Cyclops
Nova manages all compute resources in OpenStack. Today, the Cyclops team is announcing support for compute events such as VM Creation, Deletion, and Modification for billing purposes in Cyclops. All this by directly tapping into the OpenStack message bus for processing critical events in real-time. Schlagwörter: billing, charging, Cyclops, events, nova, openstack, RabbitMQ, rating
Rating, Charging and Billing support for Openstack Liberty with Cyclops
In this week’s release, the Cyclops team is proud to announce the support of the latest OpenStack release, Liberty. From the Usage Data gathering from Ceilometer to the generation of a PDF bill. Schlagwörter: bill, billing, charging, Cyclops, open source, openstack, rating
Visualization of usage prediction in Cyclops
Cost and usage prediction can be a powerful tool in the hands of cloud operators as well as end users. Forecasting can help operators gain insights into the future trends in demand of compute, storage and network assets. From an end users’ perspective, forecasting enables them to perform budgeting. ICCLab’s RCB Initiative has been actively […]
MCN and ICCLab Demo at EUCNC
As part of our on-going work in MobileCloud Networking the project demonstrated at this year’s EUCNC, held in a very warm (> 35*C !!!) Paris, France. The MCN demonstration was built on top of a standard cloud infrastructure, leveraging key technologies of OpenStack and OpenShift and used (open source outputs of MCN, namely hurtle – […]
CYCLOPS Dashboard: Usage visualization, rate configuration & billing for OpenStack
The first version of the Rating, Charging and Billing Dashboard is now available on Github! The dashboard is targeted towards a cloud service provider and their client. It has different views for an end user and a cloud administrator. The dashboard interacts with the different micro services of Rating, Charging & Billing to get the relevant data and […]
Rating, charging and billing for the clouds – Cyclops demo
In the past few months, the ICCLab has been developing a generic rating-charging-billing engine that would offer cloud service providers a modular framework that enables dynamic pricing activities and distributed design. The model closely follows the general accounting process, in the same time providing a lot of flexibility due to the loosely-coupled design. The platform […]
ICCLab at OpenCloudDay ’14
ICCLab attended the OpenCloudDay in Bern en masse. Being one of the most known (infamous?) cloud computing groups in Switzerland, we had to show our strength at one of Switzerland’s most prestigious cloud events! Schlagwörter: billing, charging, Cyclops, FI PPP, FI-Lab, Future Internet, OpenCloudDay, rating