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Bringing higher-ed to cloud: A success story at the University of Rochester
Part of the For Cloud Professionals podcast series
As cloud adoption has gained steam over the past half-decade, the education sector has often lagged behind. However, that’s changing—in part due to the shift to remote learning brought on by COVID-19, but also due to a desire to enhance the student experience.
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One final frontier–cloud comes to higher education
As cloud adoption has gained steam over the past half-decade, the education sector has often lagged behind. However, that’s changing—in part due to the shift to remote learning brought on by COVID-19, but also due to a desire to enhance the student experience. In this podcast, David Linthicum and guests, Deloitte’s Kathy Karich and University of Rochester Deputy CIO Julie Myers, discuss the university's cloud journey and how they’ve made it a successful one. Kathy and Julie cite three critical keys to success: focus on getting your data clean, redesign processes for cloud, and manage change—and people’s reaction to it—effectively. Julie also stresses the importance of good executive leadership to ensuring enterprise-wide buy-in for what can initially be a bumpy ride to cloud.
Disclaimer: As referenced in this podcast, “Amazon” refers to AWS (Amazon Web Services) and “Google” refers to GCP (Google Cloud Platform).
Our focus was really on how to make the student experience better and how to bring our schools closer together from a business process arena.
Julie Myers is the co-deputy chief information officer for the University of Rochester. She is responsible for technology strategy and initiatives in support of university-wide applications. She also provides leadership to many other IT services across the university's six schools.
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