Roadmap

In 2014, HUIT set an audacious goal to migrate Harvard to the Cloud — strengthening our resiliency, enabling us to be more responsive, and reducing costs. Learn how we are making progress toward our goals.

Program Roadmap

Phase 1 phase 2 phase 3

Download the basic (public) or detailed (HarvardKey-protected) roadmap. 

Milestones

 

2017

  • February: Provisioning freeze at 60 Oxford St. data center
  • February: "Cloud First" policy goes into effect
  • March: HUIT budget consolidation and freeze
  • April: Migrate enterprise apps (PeopleSoft and Oracle Financials) to the Cloud, improving time-to-recovery from months to hours
  • May: Form Application Portfolio Teams, and add AWS and Enquizit migration resources to increase velocity

2018

  • December: All HUIT applications migrated from 60 Oxford St. to the Cloud

2019

  • May/June: All non-HUIT applications and infrastructure moved out of the 60 Oxford Street data center
  • June: Relocate the network core
  • June 30: Close 60 Oxford Street data center