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Big Group - August 22, 2018

August 10, 2018

Please join us at our upcoming Big Group meeting, on Wednesday, August 22. We will give updates on our migration progress, decommissioning efforts, and phase 3 plans as well as hear from representatives from across the Identity and Access Management (IAM) about their cloud journey. We hope you will join us!

Event Details

Date: August 22, 2018
Time: 1-2pm
Location: Forum Room, Lamont Library

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Cloud Big Group with MIT - June 13

May 18, 2018

Please join us for the next Cloud Big Group on Wednesday, June 13, 2018 from 2:00-3:00 at 102 Haller Hall to hear about MIT’s journey to the VMWare Cloud with special guest speaker Nathan Thaler, Senior Director, MIT Cloud Platform Team. 

New year, new numbers, new approach

March 9, 2018

New year, new numbers
 

The Cloud Application Portfolio Teams (APTs) had their best migration months ever in January and February, migrating 70 servers to the Cloud. This was a tremendous effort that represented a 120% increase in velocity compared to 2017 YTD velocity, surpassing their goals by 16 servers. Congratulations and job well done to each team member who contributed to this accomplishment!

We are proud to report that as of February, we are 54% complete toward our goal of migrating all HUIT applications, and 40...

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Cloud Big Group: November 20, 1-2:30pm

November 9, 2017

We hope you will join us for the next meeting of the Cloud Big Group on November 20th from 1-2:30pm in Ames Courtroom (HLS).

We have a full 60 minutes of content planned with an extra 30 minutes reserved for questions and discussion. Please find the agenda below:

Agenda:


1:00-1:25
Program Updates: developer access in the Cloud, tracking our progress using ServiceNow, and a review of the “Defining DevOps” workshop

1:25-1:40
Harvard Art Museums (HAM) Migration: lessons learned from a...

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HUIT's Journey to the Cloud: A Message from Anne

October 24, 2017

Dear HUIT Colleagues,

In 2014, just three years ago, we set an audacious goal to move Harvard to the Cloud to make us more resilient, more responsive, and to reduce costs. Last year, we reaffirmed our commitment and set an even bolder goal to migrate 100% of our applications out of 60 Oxford Street and close the data center by June 2019.

As one of the first universities to fully embrace cloud computing, we did not have a model to adopt, but through our...

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Talk with AWS at Cloud Big Group Meeting, Tuesday, July 18

July 17, 2017

The Cloud program has recently entered into a partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help accelerate migration speed in support of meeting our goal of migrating all HUIT applications to the Cloud by the end of FY18 and vacating the 60 Oxford St. data center by the end of FY19. To learn more about how HUIT and AWS will work together, please join the Cloud program tomorrow, Tuesday, July 18 from 2-3pm at Science Center Hall B for the Cloud Big Group meeting. A representative from AWS will join us for the hour to talk about approach, scope, and to answer...

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Sign up for Training; GitHub Enterprise Available for HUIT

July 5, 2017

This past March, the Cloud program announced that HUIT would be launching GitHub Enterprise to centrally store and secure code as we move to the Cloud. This month, we are excited to make GitHub available to you.

Now that GitHub Enterprise is available to HUIT, we encourage you to attend a training session. This is especially recommended for those who are new to GitHub. ...

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Panel discussion to preview return of Big Group meetings

May 26, 2017

Starting in July, the Cloud team is bringing back the "Big Group" meeting series as a place to learn and share experiences of moving to the Cloud. To preview the return of the series, Ben Rota moderated a panel discussion at this month's "Connecting the IT Dots" meeting.

Five panel members represented both PeopleSoft and Oracle technical and business teams in a discussion about moving two of the University's biggest applications the Cloud. Attendees heard the panelists' personal accounts through a series of questions touchng on topics such as: 

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PeopleSoft 9.2 in the Cloud

April 14, 2017

peoplesoft in the cloud

April marked a major milestone for the PeopleSoft team and the Cloud program with the successful upgrade to PeopleSoft version 9.2 and concurrent move to the Cloud.

The significance of moving an application of PeopleSoft’s scale and complexity to the Cloud cannot be understated, and is a true testament to outstanding collaboration. Not only is PeopleSoft the first migration of an enterprise-wide application to the Cloud, it also highlights the importance and success of the embedded model – an operational approach where dedicated Cloud team members temporarily collocate with application team members during the migration process.... Read more about PeopleSoft 9.2 in the Cloud