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## The Jaume I pioneers in migrating to the cloud and consolidates its technological leadership

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Since its creation, the Universitat Jaume I has always been a pioneer in the field of new technologies, a distinctive feature that already was evident with the creation of the first web of Spain at a time when computer science was still a great unknown to the public. It currently continues to stand out as the first university to migrate its management calculation to the cloud.  
  
This commitment to the cloud began five years ago, when corporate email was moved to Google, thus obtaining other online services such as file storage, shared calendars or document creation. After this first step, the Universitat Jaume I decided last year to take the full leap to this technology  hiring calculation services in the cloud, a decision that would not only eliminate costs in computer equipment, that was beginning to become obsolete and required a significant investment for renewal, but also offer added value in many other aspects, such as security or quality of service.  
  
However, this migration, which was carried out effectively last April, has been an arduous and complex process of work carried out by different groups which, with great effort and dedication, have made it a reality.  
  
First, an exhaustive study of the different providers of the moment was made, finally opting for Amazon Web Services (AWS), which belongs to the same group of the well-known Internet shopping portal. Nevertheless, opting for a leadertechnology like AWS also meant to demonstrate to this company the technical competence of the UJI Computing Service team. The challenge reflected the work capacity of this group, which has led the whole process and believed in the project from the beginning.  
  
Thus, the team had to get down to work updating and adapting all existing technology stack for work in the cloud, thus contributing to the improvement and standardization of software and processes. After a pilot test, which was performed successfully six months ago, it was decided to take the final leap in April. Almost 12 hours later, everything was in place.  
  
However, the migration to the cloud is not a finished process. Now, it requires continuous monitoring, to be held over these months, to assess consumption. So far, the data are positive and fall within the expectations, but it will be necessary to perform a stage performance evaluation and optimization in which part of the system shall be determined as profitable to be kept in the cloud.  
  
**Advantages of the migration**  
  
The advantages of this change have been numerous, apart from cost reduction and technological standardization. First, security is much higher in both protection of the information and quality of the service, given the high level of security of a company with the prestige of Amazon Web Services and the uninterrupted attention offered against any technical problem.  
  
Also, outsourcing this service, which would be comparable to hiring electric power, allows the expansion of the computing capacity for peak times as needed, something that would be impossible with a supply of UJI's own machines. In this line, the software and hardware are also continuously updated, on account of the supplier, thus avoiding that investment by the UJI and benefitting from lower prices in the sector.  
  
Moreover, the process has enabled Computer Service's staff training to improve and widen their skills. In this sense, there also will be a redefinition of staff activities in the Computing Service, which will provide a greater value devoting themselves more to engineering projects than to the maintenance that was necessary so far. In addition, all the knowledge that has been generated by the migration process will be transferred to the university community, especially to students, as they currently have profiles that are highly demanded in the labour market.  
  
Notably, in this line of knowledge transfer, the UJI has also continued its commitment to free software. The university has published open everything that has been developed for the migration on GitHub, the programmers' platform par excellence designed to share code.  
  
**Future lines**  
  
The Universitat Jaume I also plans to carry out other technological initiatives like desktop virtualization. With virtualization, computers with more limited resources will turn into "thin clients", that is to say, they will perform a function screen, offering the user the same benefits as a more powerful client, since calculation, drawn and data access will be performed in a central computer. In this way, management and maintenance tasks are reduced, since it facilitates, for example, to install software or to change a massive version of operating system instantly. This system would also provide the option of teleworking, as it would allow to access management tools in a delocalized way. This idea that could also apply to lecturers and students to have all the software that they need from anywhere.  
  
In addition, another trend in which the UJI wants to position itself with a clear style is "open data", i.e., opening to consumption the data that are not protected so that transparency is complete, thus offering direct source data without processing. In this way, they UJI would generate an ecosystem of programmers and even more applications aimed at, for example, helping students to do mobile applications or web projects exploiting these data.

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