University of Kentucky tests ERP on Dell's latest cloud services

Bit net (chinabyte), September 6--Vince Kellen, chief information officer at the University of Kentucky, is considering shifting some of the university's SAP work to the cloud environment, a move that will make the school the first pioneer in using ERP in the cloud.

When Kellen announced the news at the VMworld Annual meeting, he did not introduce much detail about his plans to use cloud services. But, like many public institutions and http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/33075.html "> Government departments, reducing costs is undoubtedly the most important motivation."

"I've found a source of funding to make sure our infrastructure runs." "Kellen said. "I'm going to use cloud services to bring breakthrough technological progress." ”

Kellen is one of the first beta test experiences to announce the latest release of Dell's infrastructure, the service cloud. Dell's official test period is expected to wait until next month.

Kellen in an interview that the University of Kentucky runs SAP and has adopted a UNIX operating system environment. The migration will also involve UNIX systems and the migration of some of the databases running on the system to Microsoft SQL and x86 hardware (Kellen and to disclose which vendor he chooses).

Earlier this year, Microsoft and SAP announced that they had started working together to ease cloud deployments.

The project aims to run about 60% of the university's ERP system data, with 250 employees working in the cloud. This work will include testing and development, especially for class registration time and peak processing. This is very feasible, Kellen said, and he has checked his business case twice.

Security is a problem on the other hand, but Kellen seems to be confident that it will not constitute an obstacle. "A vendor running a large, complex data center with lots of other customer data has a much better security measure than yours, especially if you're a small organization like us." "he said.

The university's management has always supported the idea of running ERP in the cloud, but they also stressed that it could not lead to any service changes or delays, Kellen said. If the campus user is not invisible, we don't do it, he said.

Cologne estimated that three years will save the school 1.5 million dollars, but also allows some IT staff to work on other projects.

Dell's latest infrastructure, the services cloud, was announced this week by Mark Bilger, vice president and chief technology officer of the company, who said Dairyun would be on a full market in North America in the fourth quarter of this year. The service cloud service is currently being developed in collaboration with VMware.

The first deployment of the cloud service will be its Piano Technology Center, which Dell acquired through the acquisition of Perot. But at the same time, Dell has built cloud computing data centers in Quincy and Washington, where the cost of generating electricity is lower, Bilger said.

Kellen says the University of Kentucky has started the cloud architecture when it uses SAP.

In the past two years, SAP has been working with a number of cloud vendors for its overall virtualization, said Jean Bozman, an IDC analyst. There are a lot of people in the study, Bozman said, but "in terms of their heavy workload, we're still just march the first step." "(by compilation: LITAO984LT)

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