Beginning in 2015, the University of Waterloo embarked on a program that we called "Cloud Fast Forward", designed to align our information systems to where they are best supported for long-term university use. In many cases, this involved moving systems from our on-premise data centers to the Cloud, both Software and Platform-as-a-Service. This session will outline our journey and the opportunities that we had to learn along the way.
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