We all have read plenty of stories about organizations moving their systems and applications to the cloud. Many individuals and units at U-M have made their own forays into the cloud, and it’s now time for ITS to provide a way to facilitate the university’s use of cloud services. It was determined that we needed an ITS-wide initiative to transform the organization into one that is fluent in leveraging and consuming cloud services, allowing ITS to move services (as appropriate) to public cloud providers.
In March 2018, ITS formed the Cloud Infrastructure Transformation Program (CITP) to build the foundational infrastructure that will be necessary as we consider how cloud services will factor into the future of services ITS provides.
