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How We're Getting There

We are using a three-phased approach that grows cloud skills and organizational maturity during the process of moving to the Cloud, ultimately positioning us to take full advance of Cloud benefits.

As an important first step, HUIT is immediately discontinuing all on-premises provisioning at the 60 Oxford Street data center, and implementing a ”Cloud first” policy that all new applications should be created in the Cloud. ​

 

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Phase One:  Support Migrations and disaster recovery

June 2014-April 2017

 

Resources: Forming and storming Cloud team

Migrations: 

  • Migrate enterprise apps: PeopleSoft and  Oracle Financials
  • Simplify migration process to increase velocity
  • Validate new approach with AWS and Gartner

Operations: 

  • Implemented redundancy for enterprise apps
  • Improve time-to-recovery from months to hours

Cloud Skills and Operational Maturity: Basic

 

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Phase Two: Deliver Minimum Viable Product

May 2017-December 2018

 

Resources:

  • Norming Application Portfolio Teams
  • Added migration (AWS and Enquizit) and QA resources

Migrations: 100% of HUIT apps to be migrated or retired by December 2018

Operations: 

  • Create DevOps vision and roles
  • Standardize tools and architecture
  • Replace Backup

Cloud Skills and Operational Maturity: Expanded

 

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Phase Three: Automate and Optimize

January 2019 - June 2020

 

Resources: Performing Cloud team

Applications:

  • On-going tuning and automation
  • Standardize deployment patterns
  • Migrate non-HUIT apps

Operations:

  • Close 60 Oxford St. data center by June 2019
  • Inventory and automation tools
  • Multi-Cloud implementation

Cloud Skills and Operational Maturity: More Advanced

 

See how we're progressing towards our goals