Author Archives: Paul Petersen

ECS receives high marks for AWS training; now available on demand

Emory Cloud Services (ECS) recently finished their first series of internally-run 200-level AWS training and the feedback was tremendous. The virtual classes, which were offered for free to Emory staff, covered a wide range of intermediate topics in the area of cloud services. In a survey conducted after the classes, ECS training earned a Net […]

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What is Enterprise Cloud Services?

Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) is Emory University’s preferred and recommended cloud service for enterprise applications. The service provides application owners a cloud platform within Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build and run their applications with central IT support. Two years ago, we started a project called the Cloud Infrastructure Migration Planning (CIMP) Project. It was […]

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Enterprise Cloud Services announces new community site

This week the Cloud Advisory Group launched the Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) Community website.  Enterprise Cloud Services is a new cloud offering from LITS that provides a managed cloud environment perfect for enterprise applications. The new website features access to the community events calendar, several options for free training, and the latest news related to […]

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DevOps workshop was well-attended by LITS IT members

[Ed. note: Cloud Advisory Group (CAG) update #3.] The term “DevOps” has been around for at least ten years and has been defined in many ways. The most common definitions describe DevOps as the practice of development and operations engineers working closely together to provide high-quality, rapid IT service delivery. While this may seem like […]

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Cloud Infrastructure Migration Planning update – December 2018

Welcome to the Cloud Infrastructure Migration Planning (CIMP) update, provided by the Cloud Advisory Group (CAG). The mission of the CAG is to facilitate the adoption of cloud computing across LITS for the purpose of migrating Emory’s on-premises data center infrastructure to Amazon Web Service (AWS). The goal of this monthly article is to provide […]

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