{"id":497,"date":"2016-06-08T15:35:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T15:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/devops\/?p=497"},"modified":"2016-06-08T15:36:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T15:36:10","slug":"a-microsoft-centric-platform-in-aws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/devops\/2016\/06\/08\/a-microsoft-centric-platform-in-aws\/","title":{"rendered":"A Microsoft-centric platform in AWS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/dietsarefattening.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/GiantLeap.gif\" width=\"600\" height=\"373\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At Notre Dame, we use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onbase.com\/en\/product\">OnBase<\/a> by Hyland Software as our Enterprise Content Management platform. \u00a0Hyland has been a Microsoft Certified Partner for almost two decades, and has optimized its software for Windows, so OnBase is very much a Windows-centric product.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been following this blog, you know that Notre Dame has selected <a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/\">Amazon Web Services<\/a> as our infrastructure provider of the future. \u00a0Linux-based systems fit nicely in the automation sweet spot that the\u00a0AWS tools provide. \u00a0Windows systems can be a bit more of a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, our team was excited about the move. \u00a0We knew there would be some challenges along the way,\u00a0including the migration of 2 TB of data from campus to AWS. \u00a0The challenges were offset by the opportunities, including\u00a0the longstanding architectural goal of a load-balanced web tier communicating with a load-balanced application tier, as opposed to the collapsed web and application tier we were running on campus.<\/p>\n<p>We did a quick proof of concept exercise in the fall of 2015, then started building out our full test environment early in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for details of our struggles, learnings, and ultimately successful migration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Notre Dame, we use OnBase by Hyland Software as our Enterprise Content Management platform. \u00a0Hyland has been a Microsoft Certified Partner for almost two decades, and has optimized its software for Windows, so OnBase is very much a Windows-centric &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/devops\/2016\/06\/08\/a-microsoft-centric-platform-in-aws\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1551,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65088,65095],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aws","category-cloud-infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}