Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 44 | Page 50

Case study

Wits University navigates digital learning challenges with AWS

Challenged with legacy IT infrastructure , on-premise data centre and a perennial problem of the Learning Management System going down during critical times , South Africa ’ s University of Witwatersrand saw an urgent requirement to move its Sakai Learning Management System ( LMS ) to the cloud . Dr Stanley Mpofu , CIO , Wits University , tells Intelligent CIO Africa why the university had to migrate its LMS to Amazon Web Services ( AWS ) Cloud to facilitate online teaching and digital learning .
Dr Stanley Mpofu , CIO , Wits University
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