School Profile

• Name: Texas A&M University
• Size:  Approx 70K students, 11K faculty/staff
• Carnegie Classification:  Public R1
• Medical School: Yes
• Academic focus: Agriculture, Architecture, Business, Engineering, Healthcare, Science, Veterinary Medicine

Cloud Profile

• Cloud adoption:  Transformational Cloud
• Supported Platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP
• Cloud URL(s): https://cloud.tamu.edu (coming soon)
• Cloud contact(s): aip@tamu.edu
• Cloud Strategy URL: https://it.tamu.edu/cloud/
• Business drivers for cloud: research, automation, data backup, Business Continuity
• Areas of cloud use: research, administrative (departmental, enterprise), teaching, improving operational efficiencies, experimentation.

Cloud story/narrative: Texas A&M has engaged AWS, Google, and Microsoft and is developing a framework to provide security, usability, and governance consistently across all platforms.  The timeline for final configuration of Google and AWS is August, 2020.