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Tuesday, September 6th, 2022 8:06am

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The Department of Administrations centralized Office of Information Technology will begin the first of two phases in migrating the states data systems from state servers to the cloud this month.

According to a release from the Department, the migration to cloud based servers represents an important part of the states IT strategy and ongoing work to secure Alaskans data, modernize state IT systems and dramatically improve the states resilience to unexpected disruption.

Over the past two years, the Office of Information Technology has executed important work to design the cloud environment based upon the states specific security and operational needs. Said the States Chief Information Officer Bill Smith. OIT has conducted significant training for state employees, performed pilot migrations, built a cloud governance model, and worked to prepare for an effective migration. This move will allow us to take full advantage of world class security features and provide access to a robust computing environment built from the ground up to protect and secure the states data.

In the coming months, the Office of Information Technology will be evaluating every server in the state and executing the large-scale migration.

This migration effort is a culmination of the preparation that has been accomplished over the past two years and will utilize a rapid lift-shift solution unavailable until recently.

The project had its formal kickoff this month and will be conducted in two ninth-month phases.

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State's centralized Office of Information Technology begins cloud migration - kinyradio.com