Leadership & Project Sponsors
"Our move to a hybrid cloud service is a strategic step toward greater flexibility, efficiency, and resilience. Shifting from our traditional on-premise Educloud offering to a more diverse platform allows us to meet the changing demands of the UBC community with speed and confidence. This progress is only possible because of our team’s energy, focus, and commitment to making change happen. Together, we are building a stronger, more adaptable foundation for the future."
– Stephen Lamb | Deputy Chief Information Officer, UBCIT
Core Project Team
For me, migrating to public cloud is a giant leap forward opens in terms of how we deliver services to our community. It opens the door to things that just aren't possible or prohibitively expensive on-prem. Also, It allows IT to focus on value creation by providing enhances agility, unlimited capacity, highly secure and available services, and access to advanced cloud-native services such as AI and ML that drive innovation.
– Mario Angers | Senior Manager, ITSV Cloud Architect, UBCIT
"We don’t often get the chance to rebuild our infrastructure – but the cloud migration project has given us exactly that. By adopting a hybrid model that combines a new on-premises cloud build on OpenStack with public cloud platforms like AWS and Azure, we now have the flexibility to choose the right environment for each workload. This approach enables us to accelerate innovation, optimize performance and cost, and support the evolving needs of research, teaching and learning."
– Sanja LeBlanc | Manager, ITSV Cloud Architect, UBCIT
"As a Cloud Architect with UBCIT, I envision our migration from VMware to OpenStack and the Public Cloud empowering the UBC community to embrace future-ready technologies and foster innovation. This transition lets us focus on exciting new initiatives, while enabling everyone to update their skill sets and drive collective success."
– Brent Dunington | Senior Cloud Architect, UBCIT
"We do not often get the opportunity to transform at this scale. The hybrid cloud migration opens the space to embed security into the fabric of our environment from the outset, establishing a strong foundation for innovation and growth. Beginning with this baseline also positions us for the resilience and adaptability we will need as technology and risks continue to evolve."
– Aaron Heck | Associate Director, Cybersecurity Architecture and Development
"The Cloud Migration Project is moving forward with strong collaboration and support from teams across the organization, along with ongoing support from our executive leadership. This transition from EduCloud to a combination of private and public cloud by June 2026 marks a significant step toward modernizing our infrastructure and supporting our long-term strategic goals."
– Richard Wong | Lead Project Manager, Cloud Migration, UBCIT