Tag Archives: AWS

Adolescent Health Initiative uses IT to train health care providers

By | August 25, 2021
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The Adolescent Health Initiative (AHI), a program of Community Health Services at Michigan Medicine, works to transform the health care landscape to optimize adolescent and young adult health and well-being. AHI provides customer-focused, youth-driven, and innovative approaches to improving adolescent care through coaching and technical assistance including engaging webinars, virtual clinic tours, implementing an assessment tool, and more.… Read More »

AWS training at U-M March 20

By | March 13, 2019
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The College of Literature, Science and the Arts, in partnership with the Amazon Web Services at U-M team, is pleased to announce a free, hands-on cloud computing workshop. Join us on March 20 at The Ross School of Business, classroom R1210. Register. NOTE: Computers will not be provided, so please bring a laptop to this event. Agenda 9:00… Read More »

AWS training @ UMSI Feb. 28

By | February 12, 2019
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The U-M School of Information, in partnership with the Amazon Web Services at U-M team, is pleased to announce a free hands-on cloud computing workshop. Join us on February 28 at the School of Information, 3100 North Quad, Ehrlicher room. Computers will not be provided, so please bring a laptop to this event. If you are interested in… Read More »

ITS sets up new DNS authoritative server in AWS

By | December 13, 2018
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Members of the ITS CITP (Cloud Infrastructure Transformation Program) technical team, working with the ITS Hostmaster, have created a Domain Name Service (DNS) authoritative server in Amazon Web Services (AWS) to increase resiliency. There are two types of DNS servers: resolvers and authoritative. Computers send DNS questions (queries) to a DNS resolver. The resolver then finds the right… Read More »

ITS begins work on CUI proof of concept

By | October 30, 2018
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The University of Michigan has been working on a effort to ensure that the university is compliant with the new regulations concerning the use of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). The next step is to develop a CUI public cloud strategy and proof of concept in AWS. That is where the ITS Cloud Infrastructure Transformation Program (CITP) technical team… Read More »

U-M Leaders and Best in cloud storage adoption

By | October 25, 2018
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ITS is pleased to announce that we have successfully adopted Amazon Web Services’ Simple Storage Service (AWS S3) to seamlessly store aging campus files and save university MiStorage capital funds. The benefit to the university is that the Storage team will be able to run the service within the current rate structure without having to ask for additional… Read More »

ITS offers additional training in AWS, Azure, and GCP

By | April 2, 2018
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Information and Technology Services (ITS) is pleased to announce that detailed agendas are now available for training on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. These day-long sessions will provide an overview as well as hands-on opportunities to explore these cloud based computing platforms. You will be able to get help with your specific use case,… Read More »

ITS offers training in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform

By | February 28, 2018
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Information and Technology Services (ITS) is pleased to announce training for Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. These day-long sessions will provide an overview as well as hands-on opportunities to explore these cloud based computing platforms. You will be able to get help with your specific use case, leveraging these platforms. Learn and apply knowledge… Read More »

Jumpstart your knowledge in Amazon Web Services

By | February 26, 2018
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  Lots of folks in Michigan IT and on campus are hearing about our journey to the cloud. If you want to jump start your knowledge, Amazon Web Services Essential Training from Lynda.com is very useful for learning your way around AWS, the different services it offers, what it takes to use them, and what you might still need… Read More »

ITS offers new features & discounts for AWS

By | February 21, 2018
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In the last few months Information & Technology Services (ITS) has announced several enhancements to its cloud offerings to the U-M campus. One of these enhancements was the execution of a new Enterprise Agreement and Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with Amazon for AWS at U-M. With this agreement, faculty, researchers, and staff at all U-M campuses can now… Read More »

ITS offers new cloud vendor choices

By | January 18, 2018
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For several years, Information and Technology Services (ITS) offered Amazon Web Services (AWS) at U-M as its sole cloud computing IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) offering. That is changing. U-M recently signed enterprise agreements to offer Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The addition of these industry leading vendors provides a strong foundation of cloud computing solutions, and will enable… Read More »

ITS offers enhancements to Amazon Web Services

By | October 10, 2017
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Are you a current user of Amazon Web Services (AWS) offered by ITS?  Should you be?  Recently, ITS announced that several new features have been added to the AWS at U-M service. The previous service offered an enterprise agreement, consolidated billing, training, some consulting, as well as an AWS Data Egress waiver. The features that are being added are:… Read More »

ITS offers cloud computing training

By | August 29, 2017
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ITS is pleased to announce training for Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. These day-long sessions will provide an overview as well as hands-on opportunities to explore these cloud based computing platforms. You will be able to get help with your specific use case, leveraging these platforms. Learn and apply knowledge to the work/research you… Read More »

Learn about AWS with free M Cloud workshop

By | May 22, 2017
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The M Cloud and AWS teams are pleased to offer free, hands-on cloud computing workshops. There is no charge for the training: all you need is some time and an AV-equipped room that holds 25-30 people. We ask attendees to bring their own laptop, so you do not need to supply computers. Below is a typical agenda, but we can… Read More »

Delivering a better AWS experience

By | November 1, 2016
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Aside from limited consulting, the current M Cloud AWS (Amazon Web Services) offering leaves the management of the service to the end user, which has been a barrier to adoption for some. There is also very little ability to report on usage and state across university assets. The M Cloud AWS Integrate project will focus on providing “value… Read More »