{"id":4777,"date":"2012-05-22T10:45:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T08:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/?p=4777"},"modified":"2014-09-29T09:52:04","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T07:52:04","slug":"infrastructure-as-a-service-iaas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/infrastructure-as-a-service-iaas\/","title":{"rendered":"Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"section-ICCLab+Research+Theme+-+Infrastructure+as+a+Service\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.5em\">Infrastructure as a Service<\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p>Infrastructure as a Service is a basic and fundamental research area for the ICCLab. By IaaS we refer to the service that provides basic, enabling services such as compute, storage and networking. There are many exemplary current-day IaaS service offerings such as <a href=\"http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/ec2\">Amazon EC2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rackspace.com\">Rackspace Cloud Servers<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudsigma.com\">CloudSigma servers<\/a>. These services are very much cloud services and adhere to the <a href=\"http:\/\/csrc.nist.gov\/publications\/nistpubs\/800-145\/SP800-145.pdf)\">NIST definition of cloud computing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">1. On-demand self-service<br \/>\n2. Broad network access<br \/>\n3. Resource pooling<br \/>\n4. Rapid elasticity<br \/>\n5. Measured service<\/p>\n<p>These services are implemented using infrastructure management frameworks (IMFs), many of them are developed privately in-house but more and more open source IMFs, for example Rackspace. Rackspace, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/category\/projects\/the-init-cloud-computing-lab\/\">as does the ICCLab<\/a>, uses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\">OpenStack<\/a> to power its IaaS offering. OpenStack is not the only open source IMF. Others include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opennebula.org\">OpenNebula<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudstack.org\">CloudStack<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eucalyptus.com\">Eucalyptus<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>IaaS itself is also a wide area filled with interesting research areas and currently the <a title=\"Research Initiatives\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/category\/research-approach\/themes\/\">research initiatives<\/a> of interoperability and dependability are applied to IaaS in the ICCLab.<\/p>\n<h3>Related Initiatives<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/category\/research-approach\/themes\/cloud-automation\/\">Cloud Automation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/category\/research-approach\/themes\/cloud-interoperability\/\">Cloud Interoperability<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/category\/research-approach\/themes\/cloud-dependability-and-high-availability\/\">Cloud Dependability and High Availability<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/category\/research-approach\/themes\/software-defined-networking-for-clouds\/\">Software Defined Networking for Clouds<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Cloud Monitoring\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/category\/research-approach\/themes\/cloud-monitoring\/\">Cloud Monitoring<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/category\/research-approach\/themes\/rating-charging-billing\/\">Rating, Charging, Billing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Cloud Performance\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/category\/research-approach\/themes\/cloud-performance\/\">Cloud Performance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Cloud storage\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/cloud-storage\/\">Cloud Storage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Related Projects<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/category\/projects\/the-init-cloud-computing-lab\/\">The InIT Cloud Computing Lab<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomp.ch\/research\/foundation\/projects\/solidna\/\">KTI Solidna<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infrastructure as a Service Infrastructure as a Service is a basic and fundamental research area for the ICCLab. 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