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Vanderbilt IT Cloud Services launches news.vanderbilt.edu, Destiny One reporting solution into Amazon Web Services environment

On Sept.17, 2016, Vanderbilt IT Open Systems Applications and Cloud Services, in collaboration with University Web Communications, successfully migrated news.vanderbilt.edu into the new Amazon Web Services cloud environment. This move was significant because the news website is a very highly trafficked portion of Vanderbilt University's total web presence. This new cloud infrastructure, architected and engineered by Jake Margason, has substantially increased site performance, thus reducing page load times by more than one second. The VUIT Cloud Services team also streamlined the development workflow and greatly increased the visibility of web developers by leveraging Sumo Logic log aggregation tools. This deployment is also protected by Trend Micro Deep Security Agents, which dramatically increases visibility and security for the internal VUIT Network Security team. The VUIT Cloud Services team is exceedingly pleased with how smoothly this migration was completed and looks forward to similar collaborative efforts in the future.

Additionally, Cloud Services teamed up with Academic Affairs Process and Solutions Implementations (AAPSI) team to implement a Destiny One reporting database environment (destinyonedb.vanderbilt.edu) in the cloud by leveraging Amazon Web Services' (AWS) infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offering in August. Destiny One is a software-as-a-service application deployed on AWS infrastructure that empowers faculty and staff to more effectively and efficiently manage the university's non-collegiate student programs. AAPSI implemented this solution to replace the PanDA application used in the Blair School and the File Maker Pro application and database used in the Peabody School's Programs for Talented Youth (PTY). The cloud team's implementation provides frequent replication of data for reporting, given that the Destiny One SaaS solution does not allow access to its transactional data.

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