Cal Poly expects to save $3.5 million over three years by migrating to the AWS Cloud
The university migrates core applications and launches Digital Transformation Hub to enable broader impact
Our customer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) is a public university in San Luis Obispo County, adjacent to the city of San Luis Obispo. Cal Poly stands as the oldest among the three polytechnic universities within the California State University system.
INDUSTRY
Higher Education
CHALLENGE
Migrating core applications to AWS to support infrastructure expansion and reduce costs
SOLUTIONS
Cloud Migration, Cloud Infrastructure
PLATFORMS
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
The obstacles they faced
Faced with aging IT and rapidly changing infrastructure demands, California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) migrated all its core applications to AWS. In addition, the highly regarded engineering school launched the “Cal Poly Digital Transformation Hub, Powered by AWS,” a collaboration that helps government agencies across California move to the cloud by developing technology solutions designed to address the unique digital transformation challenges public sector agencies face.
How we helped
We helped Cal Poly migrate its core applications to AWS, including its learning management systems (LMS); payroll; database services; mobile applications; data warehouse; content management service; security applications; class scheduling; and consulting services applications. At the same time, the university also launched the Cal Poly Digital Transformation Hub Powered by AWS, a collaboration that is helping government agencies across California transition to the cloud by developing technology solutions that address the unique challenges of digital transformation tailored to the public sector.
“AWS offers the broadest and deepest set of functionality and superior performance and security. We’ll be able to leverage the latest and greatest technologies as we innovate on behalf of our students.” — Jeffrey Armstrong, President, Cal Poly
What we achieved together
By moving to AWS, the university emerged more competitive and better positioned for growth. In addition, Cal Poly avoided an $8-10 million data center build, and the school estimated saving $3.5 million on its current infrastructure costs over three years.
Cal Poly is revolutionizing its business on AWS by scaling up operations to transform the way services are delivered across campus. By partnering with Rackspace Technology® and the AWS Professional Services team, the university has accelerated its cloud transformation journey as it adjusts operations to a cloud-operating model.
Since overhauling IT infrastructure and operations models can be daunting, Rackspace Technology and AWS devised a multi-phased approach that helped Cal Poly develop and implement a cloud vision that is systemic, sustainable and supportable.
About Rackspace Technology
Rackspace Technology is a hybrid, multicloud solutions expert. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across AI, applications, data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future.