“One advantage of a consistent platform is increased depth and breadth of knowledge with regard to best practices in development and maintenance,” Bolton says. ITS partnered with each group to help with architecture and design, automated content migration, and development practices. This year, the Tippie College of Business, College of Education, and UI Health Care transitioned from other systems.
Many campus units have used it for years, including the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, College of Nursing, College of Dentistry, the Graduate College, and ITS. “We appreciate all of the cooperation and effort that went into this undertaking, and we’re excited about the many ways this change will benefit the campus.” Adoption of Drupal growsĪs the UI planned and executed its migration to Acquia for website hosting, adoption of the Drupal content-management system continued to grow. “Dozens of IT professionals and website owners worked together to accomplish a large number of migrations in just a month’s time,” says Romy Bolton, manager of the OneIT Web Hosting Project and a director in ITS Enterprise Services. The migration required significant coordination and intense effort in summer 2016. All UI Drupal sites now use digital certificates to help with encryption, and a team of experts dedicated to infrastructure behind the sites, Acquia is well equipped to prevent, detect, and combat cyber attacks. Many high-profile organizations, such as the federal government and Al Jazeera, have websites that are hosted by Acquia, which can instantly add hardware to avoid overwhelming websites at peak traffic times. Achievements of the projects are detailed in the OneIT Year in Review. In addition to migrating Drupal sites to Acquia, the Web Hosting Project expanded use of Drupal to offer a campus-wide digital signage service, and deployed compute sticks as a better way to power the signs.įour of the 16 TIER efficiency initiatives in information technology are now complete: Web Hosting, Application Portfolio Management, Electronic File Storage, and Business Intelligence. Web hosting marks fourth completed OneIT project
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