A team representing Emory Cloud Services participated in an AWS-led computing competition and came away with honors in an event designed to test applicable knowledge in the field of cloud computing. The competition, called AWS GameDay, challenged teams to spend 4 hours solving extremely difficult cloud-related tasks for a mythical company called Unicorn Rentals. Emory’s […]
In the coming year, the Database Administration (DBA) Team will begin the work of moving Emory’s massive payload of data and services to Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) cloud platform. We’ve been preparing for years to take this significant step forward and I wanted to take this time to tell the story of my journey into […]
Campus and Community Relations (CCR) hosted the school year’s first InfoForum this week. Held in the Jones Room of the Woodruff Library, the InfoForum was attended by nearly 50 LITS employees from across the division. Using the same format as last year, which featured three speakers representing library, IT, and Emory campus interests, this week’s […]
[Ed. note: This article is the first part of a three-part series this week from the LITS Cloud Advisory Group (CAG). The introductory article about the CIMP project can be found here.] For the past several weeks, the project team has been working hard on a pilot program to gain migration and Amazon Web Service […]
[Ed. note: Cloud Advisory Group (CAG) update #2.] As cloud services become more prevalent at Emory, many LITS employees may be thinking about how to prepare themselves for this critical shift. AWS has many resources that address various cloud topics and their associated certification exams allow for foundational to professional level. There are even specialty courses for […]
[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 […]
As Emory continues to evolve in the ever-changing university computing landscape, cloud computing stands at the forefront of the next era in IT. Emory’s Cloud Implementation Migration Project (CIMP) certainly has IT professionals across campus taking note, with record numbers attending our presentation at the IT Briefing in October. The purpose of this project is to […]