UT Dallas External Phone Calls
OIT is aware of an issue affecting some external calls to the University to be disconnected and is working with Microsoft for a solution. Calls to our Service Desk are functioning normally. We will provide additional details as they become available.
Cloud Center of Excellence
OIT Cloud Offerings
The Cloud Services team provides public cloud computing services leveraging the on-demand delivery of computer power, database storage, applications and other IT resources through cloud services platform via the internet with pay-as-you-go, reserved, savings pricing models.
Cloud computing provides a simple way to access servers, storage, databases and a broad set of application services over the Internet. The prominent cloud services platforms are Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud among which we are using the Amazon Web Services in the University of Texas at Dallas for our deployment. There are different types of cloud computing services like IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.
UT Dallas has partnered with Amazon Web Services on Cloud Computing. The UT Dallas AWS Organizations account provides the ability to create and manage member accounts for UT Dallas. It contains the AWS Landing Zone configuration, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket and pipeline, account configuration StackSets, AWS Organizations Service Control Policies (SCPs), and AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) configuration with DUO (MFA) Integration. The UT Dallas AWS organization account leverages Texas DIR contract, AWS Data Egress Waiver, and AWS Business Associate Addendum (AWS BAA) for UT Dallas.
The Organization Account provides centralized shared services for campus departments and research support in bringing more innovations to assist with challenges in research that impact the world.
UT Dallas has Azure Subscription for Cloud Computing. The UT Dallas Azure Subscription leverages Texas DIR contract, and Business Associate Addendum (BAA).
Google Cloud Platform – Coming Soon.
Types of Cloud Computing
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) contains the basic building blocks for cloud IT and typically provide access to networking features, computers (virtual or on dedicated hardware), and data storage space. IaaS provides you with the highest level of flexibility and management control over your IT resources and is most similar to existing IT resources that many IT departments and developers are familiar with today.
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Platform as a Service (PaaS) removes the need for your organization to manage the underlying infrastructure (usually hardware and operating systems) and allows you to focus on the deployment and management of your applications. This helps you be more efficient as you don’t need to worry about resource procurement, capacity planning, software maintenance, patching, or any of the other undifferentiated heavy lifting involved in running your application.
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Software as a Service (SaaS) provides you with a completed product that is run and managed by the service provider. In most cases, people referring to Software as a Service are referring to end-user applications. With a SaaS offering you do not have to think about how the service is maintained or how the underlying infrastructure is managed; you only need to think about how you will use that particular piece of software. A common example of a SaaS application is web-based email which you can use to send and receive email without having to manage feature additions to the email product or maintain the servers and operating systems that the email program is running on.
UTD Amazon Web Services
The UT Dallas AWS Organizations account provides the ability to create and manage member accounts for UT Dallas. It contains the AWS Landing Zone configuration, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket and pipeline, account configuration StackSets, AWS Organizations Service Control Policies (SCPs), and AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) configuration with DUO (MFA) Integration. The UT Dallas AWS organization account leverages Texas DIR contract, AWS Data Egress Waiver, and AWS Business Associate Addendum (AWS BAA) for UT Dallas.
Visit the UTD Amazon Web Services page to learn more.
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