Follow @mikelangelo_eu This article introduces the architecture of the MIKELANGELO project, describing our main innovations. At the same time this article is the first of the MIKELANGELO architecture series. The remaining article dive deep on individual innovations. MIKELANGELO’s architecture builds on the experience of dozens of researchers across 9 renowned organisations to optimise and leverage VM performance.…

5 Steps to Boost Your Productivity with Vagrant and Docker

Follow @mikelangelo_eu Why to Combine Vagrant and Docker In this article we will boost your development cycle to create Dockerfiles with Vagrant. If you’re into DevOps and you don’t use Vagrant yet, you should try it. In the Google Trends chart below you can see that it’s still gaining popularity. Vagrant provides a virtual development…

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MIKELANGELO at Cloud Forward 2015: Why You Should Care

Follow @mikelangelo_eu Have you ever wondered what happens if you put Europe’s finest cloud computing researchers in one place for three days? So have we. This is why we are joining the Cloud Forward 2015 Conference in Pisa. We are excited to discuss the future of computing with European thought leaders in all things cloud.…

Behind the Curtain with the MIKELANGELO Team in Stuttgart

The third MIKELANGELO face-to-face meeting took place on 8th and 9th of September 2015 in the Swabian metropolis of Stuttgart. A surprising amount of greenery gives the city its unique character. HLRS (University of Stuttgart) kindly hosted the meeting at their premises and also took the more-than-interested group of MIKELANGELO people into their major machine rooms.…

The Mikelangelo Team The second Mikelangelo face-to-face meeting (10th and 11th of June 2015) brought summer to Ireland, all 3 days of it, if we’re to believe the taxi driver. Intel kindly hosted the general assembly meeting at their facilities in Leixlip. The main objective of the meeting was to define and strengthen the project’s objectives before…

Kick-Off Meeting

We have officially started the Mikelangelo project with a kick-off meeting in Ljubljana. Mikelangelo’s vision is to achieve significantly improved responsiveness, agility and security of virtual infrastructure through packaged applications, using the lean guest operating system OSv and super fast hypervisor – sKVM. Our mission is to provide the private cloud community with technologies for…