News & Events

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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