CloudSigma Launches a Strategic Partnership with ZHAW

CloudSigma, an international, customer-centric, pure-cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider, based in Zurich and founded in 2009, announced the launch of a joint effort between the ICC Lab, at the Zurich University of Applied Science, and CloudSigma establishing a “Joint Research and Education Agenda” in the field of cloud computing.

Cloud Computing is transforming the IT industry. It keeps constantly expanding and has grown up to a level which requires matching scientific initiatives and educational offers. That is why the ICC Lab at the Zurich University of Applied Science, and CloudSigma have united their efforts, experience, and expertise to produce a “Joint Research and Education Agenda”. The ICCLab is an established thought leader within many Cloud Computing research and innovation communities. CloudSigma, on the other hand perceives constant innovation and improved services as a founding principle on which it has built its business model.

The “Joint Research and Education Agenda” initiative between CloudSigma and the ICCLab is one of few of its kind in Switzerland where an academic institution with the right focus and strategy is engaging with one of the world’s leading cloud infrastructure service providers.

The joint initiative between CloudSigma and the ICCLab is to deliver four basic goals enumerated here:

• To foster public uptake of our innovations by a wider ecosystem.
• To generate strategic Intellectual Property (IPR).
• To gear the educational mission by transfer critical know-how to future generations of engineers.
• To transfer results beyond research and open source projects into the commercial market.

The association between ZHAW (ICCLab) and CloudSigma will also bring benefits to CloudSigma customers. As a result of joint research and innovation, CloudSigma customers will be offered new and/or improved cloud services that will either help in creating richer and more valuable applications and/or facilitate reducing the costs of existing service offered by CloudSigma.

Generally, the “Joint Research and Education Agenda” is expected to help in eliminating many technology barriers by setting clear strategic research themes on one side, and understanding the needs of cloud providers on the other. From this perspective the initiative will aim at eliminating topics such as the lack of interoperability in clouds today, the lack of dependable cloud services and the absence of reliable cloud performance.