“Cloud migrations are not something you do every day. It’s a big undertaking. Getting external assistance and not trying to do everything internally was the key to success.”
– Tim Hume, Chief Information and Digital Officer, Macquarie University
The Challenge
Managing and maintaining legacy IT systems is challenging, resource-draining and costly. For a number of years Macquarie University was locked into Oracle hardware licensing and Oracle enterprise-wide licensing, which is calculated on student numbers. This hindered the ability to scale and respond to the changing needs of the university. When the costs of its on-premises IT infrastructure started escalating dramatically – exceeding $1M annually – and with the university not fully utilising their Oracle licences, the university decided to terminate support, unbundle from Oracle on-premises hardware licences and migrate to AWS Cloud.
