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whatever the vendors had on fire sale at the time was the piece we would get.” But once JCCC had a dedicated technology funding stream, IT officials started to get continuity in the replacement cycle, fortified their campus network and built deeper partnerships with vendors.
In 2013 the college created a technology roadmap outlining four core strategies involving cloud, network design, mobility and disaster recovery. The campus migrated to Office 365 in October 2015; the college website moved to Amazon Web Services in July 2016; and the migration to Ellucian Hosted Services was completed in Novem-
Having a clear plan and a shared vision before launching the changes was one key to success.
ber 2016. JCCC’s IT leadership team stressed that having a clear plan and a shared vision before launching the changes was one key to success. Because IT is so central- ized in a community college setting, it allowed the team to act more swiftly than might have been possible in a university setting.
The transition to Office 365 was an early win that helped build confidence and sup- port for later changes and is emblematic of how transitioning to cloud services can improve morale on campus and within IT. Freeing up staff members allows the IT depart- ment to more closely align its work with the mission of the college. For example, rather than having multiple staff members consumed with administering, backing up and cross-training to support employee e-mail, they can now focus on helping leverage functionality JCCC could only dream of supporting in the past.
“Exchange had such a large footprint that for us to scale a backup solution to handle our employee e-mail system was getting outside the scope of why we are
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