Otemon Gakuin University realized the complete cloud system of the university including educational and office servers in the system migration in April 2021.According to Otemon Gakuin University, this is the first university in Japan.
Even when the new campus, Ibaraki Sojiji Campus, was opened in April 2019, an external cloud service was introduced without installing a physical server on the campus.It has increased the scalability and fault tolerance of the system.Furthermore, by 4, about 2020% of the system used by about 8,000 students and faculty members was operated in a cloud environment, so it is possible to quickly increase the number of servers even in the case of coronavirus, and the lesson period, which is rare in Japan, has not changed. Realized the switch to online lessons.
This time, the last remaining multiple systems (150 or more servers) were consolidated and all moved to the cloud environment.For the migration destination, "VMware on IBM Cloud" provided by IBM Japan, Ltd. was newly adopted to realize a strong security environment and high cost performance.According to Otemon Gakuin University, none of the major manufacturers that provide cloud services have implemented full cloud computing, and it is "the first university in Japan."
Otemon Gakuin University has been adopted as a new project of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology to promote digital transformation (DX) in universities, etc. In addition, we are promoting the "OIDAI DX Promotion Plan" aiming to build an "AI Teaching Assistant" that supports optimal learning for individual students using educational big data.
In the future, based on the highly expandable cloud environment, we will further accelerate our efforts and promote the enhancement of student-oriented education for students.
