About Us
Guiding Cloud Service Innovation and Adoption
The Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) works in partnership with other technical teams to help University groups navigate the cloud with confidence. Acting as a strategic bridge, we connect people, processes, and platforms. Accelerating cloud adoption, innovation, and providing the resources needed to enable digital transformation. Explore our resources, connect with our team, and discover how we support you in your cloud journey.
Our Mission
Supporting Cloud Innovation
We partner with IT, security, finance, and leadership groups across campus to support and enable utilization of cloud services while maintaining compliance and governance. Providing the foundation environment to confidently unlock innovation and enable digital transformation.
Our Core Pillars
Our Work is Built on Three Core Pillars
Our core pillars guide all our efforts and how we facilitate and enable effective decision-making for, and around, cloud services.
Governance
We establish the necessary policies, security controls, standards, and compliance frameworks to ensure public cloud adoption is secure, value driven, and aligned with the University's policies and regulatory requirements.
- Cloud Strategy
- Guardrails
- Guidelines
Brokerage
We streamline the pathway to select, procure, and utilize the best cloud services and solutions while optimizing resources and encouraging strategic alignment with organizational goals and evolving business needs.
- Innovation Management
- Sourcing Collaboration
- Provider Selection
Transformation
We foster change and enable growth by spreading expertise through collaboration, knowledge sharing, and professional development across the organization.
- Knowledge Sharing
- Ideation
- Cloud Evangelism
Our Services
Your Key to Success
Strategy & Advisement
We guide teams through cloud architecture, cloud provider selection, workload suitability, and policy alignment. Helping ensure a clear and successful journey to the cloud.
Professional Development
We encourage cloud awareness and professional development by establishing university standards while empowering groups to adopt and benefit from this technology. We have developed curated learning paths including industry certifications as well as other learning resources to help staff whatever their background may be.
Cost Optimization & Guidance
We help university groups make informed, data-driven decisions through shared visibility and collaborative cost management. By providing FinOps-aligned insights and tools we enable the forecasting, managing and optimizing efforts of cloud spending that help maximize the business value of your services.
Implementation & Coordination
We act as a central point of contact, facilitating onboarding and guiding groups from the initial ideation through solution design and cross-team coordination.
Ready to start your cloud journey?
Need more information on an individual provider?
Information for each provider can be found on either our individual providers pages or on the providers external info pages.
