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    • Higher Ed Cloud Community Events Calendar

    • Monthly Higher Ed Cloud Call
      • Format: Meetings alternate between presentations one month to open discussion the next
      • Details:
      • Meeting topics:
        • 2020
          • June 24 - Indiana University Box Migration Infoshare
            • Speakers: IU Box Migration Team
            • Description: Switching cloud storage platforms can be challenging, especially when petabytes of data are involved.  Indiana University has begun the process of switching from Box to Microsoft and Google for end-user cloud storage and is looking to share its experience and learn from the community.  Topics will include IU’s motivations for a move, selecting a migration vendor, when to leave the legacy storage up or take it down during a migration, how to handle loss of features when changing platforms, what communications challenges universities will face, and how COVID19 complicates a storage migration
          • May 27 - Open Topic Discussion - Add your topics to https://tinyurl.com/EDUCAUSE-CCCG
          • April 23 - (non-CCCG) Google Anthos presentation to Stanford cloud team. ()
          • April 22 - UNCG Cloud Cyberinfrastructure Innovation Lab
            • Speaker: Jeff Whitworth, the Associate Vice Chancellor of Enterprise Infrastructure at UNC Greensboro
            • Description: UNC Greensboro is exploring an idea to help catalyze adoption of cloud infrastructure for research and in the classroom across the entire university by creating a Cloud Cyberinfrastructure Innovation Lab. The lab is focused on institutional adoption of cloud infrastructure - something that can be challenging for a R2 and traditionally liberal arts institution.
            • recording, chat transcript
          • April 8 - The Role of Cloud Computing in Higher Ed’s COVID-19 Response (Part 2)
          • March 25 - The Role of Cloud Computing in Higher Ed’s COVID-19 Response (Part 1)
            • We had over 100 people on the call. The conversation was great. Many schools shared their experiences of transitioning to online teaching, WFH and general community support and several provided helpful resources.

            • recording, chat transcript and notes
          • February 26 - Open Topic Discussion
            • A lot has happened in the HED cloud world since our last open discussion. Add your topics to https://tinyurl.com/EDUCAUSE-CCCG
            • Topics covered:
              • Community event updates
              • RFPs for hosting ERP in the cloud
              • How to address negative attitudes about using public cloud
              • What are you doing to bring public cloud to the classroom?
              • Cloud-based VDI experiences
            • recording and notes
          • January 22 - Data-driven Cloud Planning
            • Topic 1Whether Forecasting: Informing Migration Choices with Metrics
              • Speaker: Brendan Bellina, Lead IT Architect, UCLA IT Services, Systems Services
              • Description: Migration of applications to the Cloud is now a foregone conclusion for many institutions in Higher Ed. The first applications to leave the ground may be obvious or pre-determined, but after that initial rush of success of the few, what can be used to inform the bulk of the daunting effort that remains? Faced with a commitment to migrate 40% of the workload of over 400 applications within a 12 month period, UCLA developed a metrics based scoring and benefits spreadsheet tool to help inform and support the prioritization of application migrations. This presentation explains those metrics, the controls for scoring, and demonstrates the functioning of the tool.
            • Topic 2From Operational to Predictive: Evolving from a Traditional Data Warehouse to an Analytics Hub
              • Speaker: Damian Doyle, Assistant Vice President, Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions, UMBC
              • Description:  In 2018, UMBC embarked on creating a new analytics-focused data warehouse with highly-performant real-time data ingestion pipelines using primarily native AWS tools. This session will outline the progress made leveraging AWS tools as well as open sourced products to establish the event-based ecosystem. We hope these methods can be used as a model for other campuses, as well as highlight the long-term benefits of re-architecting critical systems and processes in the cloud to accelerate innovation.
            • Slides and recording
        • 2019
          • December 16 (combined Nov/Dec event) - Fall Cloud Conference Round-Up 
          • October 23 - Federated Access to Research Data
          • EDUCAUSE 2019 Face to Face meeting (Chicago, October 16, 2019)
          • September 25 - Open Discussion
            • Early survey results
            • EDUCAUSE F2F
            • CCCG Leadership transition
          • August 28 - Supporting Research in the Cloud - Round 1: The Human Bridge
            • Derek Morr (Cloud Solutions Architect) and Greg Madden (Associate CIO for Research) - Penn State University
            • Rob Fathland (Research Computing Director) - University of Washington
            • Marty Sullivan (Cloud Systems Engineer) - Cornell University
            • (notes and recording)
          • July 24 - Open Discussion 
            • Funding for OS teams in the cloud
            • AWS Multi-Tenant vs Multi Account Strategy
            • Creating and tracking a ‘cloud innovation’ fund through optimization
            • How are you supporting researchers in the cloud?
            • Integration Tools
            • (notes and recording)
          • June 26 - Cloud Community Events and Activity
            • Recap of Cloud Networking Workshop put on by U Michigan, U Minnesota and Internet2 (Alok Vimawala - UMich)
            • Update on Cornell Cloud Forum 2019 (Sarah Christen - Cornell)
            • CCCG Engagement Channels (Bob Flynn - IU)
            • CCCG Engagement Team (Jody Couch - UCSC)
            • (recording and slides)
          • May 22 - Open Discussion
            • Announcements
              • Cloud Forum dates: November 6-8, 2019
            • Firewalling in AWS: Paul Peterson from Emory talked about networking strategies for their non-research AWS environment. (slides)
          • April 24 - Google Cloud Platform
          • Mar 27 - Open Discussion
            • Performance testing of moving data from one cloud provider to another
            • SSO with AWS and how to federate external users
            • Upcoming AWS webinar series
            • Options for handling cloud training needs
            • Call for (self-)nominations for CCCG co-chairs
            •  (notes | recording)
          • Feb 27 - Open Discussion (notes)
          • Jan 23 - Cloud Q & A for Small Schools (recording and resources)
        • 2018
          • Dec 5 - Excerpts from the 2018 Cornell Cloud Forum (recording and resources)
            1. Title: Ouch! Commonly Overlooked (or Surprising) Cloud Costs
              Description: “Wait … that costs how much?” How do you prepare stakeholders for cloud-related charges that were provided ‘for free’ while on-premise?  What new charges exist in the Cloud? What are the associated costs? Most importantly, who is going to pay them?
              Presenters: Kari Robertson and Glenn Blackler - UC Santa Cruz

            2. Title: Using AWS CLI with Shibboleth and Duo https://github.com/techservicesillinois/awscli-login
              Description: How can higher education give our faculty and staff convenient access to AWS tools without leaving behind a mess of long-lived secret keys? We’ll demonstrate a University of Illinois plugin to the AWS CLI which authenticates against Shibboleth with Duo and manages short-lived credentials, making it easy to be secure.
              Presenter: Chris Kuehn - University of Illinois

            3. Title: Kubernetes: Container Orchestration at Scale
              Description: Kubernetes is a resource scheduler that started as a Google project. Now it is the primary container scheduler being adopted across the spectrum of both cloud and on-prem based deployments. With an extensible scale-first architecture it’s easy to see why its adoption has outpaced other solutions such as Docker Swarm and Mesos. The goal is to present on the architecture of Kubernetes and basics of running Kubernetes at scale.
              Presenter: Jeff Sica - University of Michigan
              Resources: “Introduction to Kubernetes” open-source eight-hour 100-level labs: https://goo.gl/uHq6T4  and presentation: https://goo.gl/Yb6Hfr

            4. Time Permitting: AWS re:Invent recap

          • Nov 1 - Open discussion at in-person meeting at EDUCAUSE Annual Meeting
          • Oct 24 - Open discussion (see notes)
          • Sep 26 - Funding models for new cloud paradigms (speakers: David Seidl- Notre Dame, Ben Rota - Harvard)
          • Aug 22 - Notre Dame and the Cloud - Over the past three years, Notre Dame University has moved more than 80% of their IT infrastructure and services to Amazon Web Services (AWS).  On this month's Higher Education Cloud Collaboration conference call, leaders from Notre Dame University will provide an overview of their move to AWS, and will share their lessons learned and advice for other institutions.
          • Limit of recorded history

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