Welcome to ITng Services

Submitted by jbass on Thu, 04/08/2010 - 16:08

 ITng Services is a works-for-hire organization in the Institute for Next Generation IT Systems. We specialize in the following areas of work:

  • network performance testing
  • computing performance testing
  • system testing
  • open source development
  • virtualization
  • cloud computing technologies
  • storage technologies
  • networking technologies

ITng services is formerly known as  Centennial Networking Lab (CNL) of NCSU. CNL has been publishing computing articles in industry publications and conducting compute system testing campaigns for over 12 years.

ITng Services is located in the Open Source Collaboration and Research (OSCAR) Lab on Centennial Campus of NCSU. 

Please contact us for more information.

ITng releases Services Management Platform -- Opus

Submitted by bmbouter on Mon, 07/19/2010 - 12:42

Opus v0.1 has been released and is now ready for use by the public.  Download the 0.1 release here

What is Opus?

1.  Opus is an Open Source Services Management Platform written in Python that runs on Django. It provides a framework to manage Django projects in an extremely secure, scalable way designed specifically for multi-tenant systems requiring web-app isolation. Our ultimate goal is for Opus to handle the deployment, scaling, migration, and security of web applications and services, giving applications the power to utilize cloud resources.

2.  Opus is a community, providing a collection of services and applications which are easily deployed, managed, and configured on the core platform.  Browse the community site at opus.ncsu.edu

What Opus can do for your web services?

Have a web service or application written in Django? Django is a great web framework, but the administrator still has to do quite a bit of manual work. You must set up the project, configure the database, configure a web server, and set all the components up to work together. And after all that, it doesn't scale for you; as soon as you outgrow the single server setup, your workload has doubled. An administrator must manually configure each web node, manually deploy Django projects across them, manually configure a load balancer, etc.

The goal of Opus is to be an automation layer for all of these tasks. Web services deployed on top of Opus are automatically scaled when demand increases. New virtual machines are started and stopped as needed. It is aimed to be a hands free solution for scalable web applications or services.

How do I Get Involved?

ITng Participates in WWW2010 Open Source Panel with Google and Redhat

Submitted by jbass on Thu, 06/03/2010 - 13:10

ITng participated in Open Source Panel with Google and Redhat to discuss the evolution and growth of open source technologies.  The panel occurred at WWW 2010 in the Raleigh downtown convention center, was chaired by Vice President for Corporate Affairs, Tom Rabon, and included the following individuals:

The panel began by looking back at how far open source has come; panelists shared anecdotal experiences with some of the first open source technologies including HTTP and the internet.  Jones relayed his story of when Tim-Berners Lee visited Paul Jones at Chapel Hill to install the first installation of HTTP code running in North America.  See the video of this story here.
 
Intellectual property law and governance was also discussed heavily, with the entire panel recognizing that strong intellectual property laws will catalyze opens source and open technologies.  It was noted that this is especially true in developing nations where weak intellectual property law enforcement can hinder the adoption of open technologies when there is little or no enforced penalty for stealing proprietary software.
 
The relationship between proprietary and open technologies was also discussed from multiple perspectives.  Chris DiBona considers the ability to have the source code that supports your business is worth something additional, possibly a lot or a little depending on the situation.  Bouterse additionally argued that proprietary technologies tend to innovate and be brought to market quicker, while open source communities tend to commoditize existing technologies.  See the video of this section here.

ITng Launch Event April 21-22 2010

Submitted by jbass on Thu, 04/08/2010 - 16:29

The Institute for Next Generation IT Systems (ITng) will celebrate it's creation with a launch event wednesday April 21 through thursday April 22, 2010.

The event will include presentations on the structure of ITng and how it connects to NCSU, progress reports on active projects, workshops for each of ITng's focus areas (IT Security, Healthcare IT, Energy IT, and Education IT), and the 2010 Free and Open Source Software Fair.

The event will be held in Engineering Building 2 on NCSU's Centennial Campus.

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