Overview

When the Utah Department of Transportation wanted to move its applications to the cloud, it faced a problem: How could the agency move its core business systems to the cloud while utilizing existing Oracle licenses? It evaluated many options before selecting Google Bare Metal Solution.

Join Government Technology for a live webcast with Utah transportation IT leaders, Dito, and Google Cloud on August 16 at 10 a.m. Pacific/ 1 p.m. Eastern. You’ll learn how the Utah DOT migrated 19 Oracle databases and more than 50 applications to a Google Cloud integrated system with improved failover capabilities and no increase in Oracle licensing costs.

Speakers

Adam Radel

Director of IT, Utah Department of Transportation

Peter Goldthorp

Senior Cloud Architect, Dito

Google certified cloud architect specializing in Oracle to GCP migration projects with more than 25 years of product development experience at Oracle.

Maria Zuliani

Customer Engineer, Data Management, Google

Cloud Engineer in Google Public Sector specializing in Oracle to Google migration projects with more than 13 years of Database Architecture experience at Oracle. Advising customers on strategies to Migrate Oracle workloads to Oracle Bare Metal, Google Cloud VMware Engine or modernizing them with Cloud Native Databases & Services.

Channing Quist

Account Executive, Google Cloud Public Sector

William (Bill) Rials, Ph.D. — Moderator

Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government

William (Bill) Rials, Ph.D., is a professor and associate director (department chair) of the Tulane University School of Professional Advancement IT and Cybersecurity Program, where he focuses on continually delivering and updating the program curriculum based on innovative and emerging technologies. Before transitioning to academia and higher education, he had a diverse gov tech career delivering value to state agencies, local governments, and law enforcement agencies throughout the state of Mississippi. He has served in CIO, CTO, and CISO roles for local governments and also in various leadership positions within the state of Mississippi’s IT organization as a deputy to the state CIO. Dr. Rials holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Belhaven University, a master’s degree in computer information systems and cybersecurity from Missouri State University, as well as a Ph.D. in higher education administration and public administration from Jackson State University. His dissertation research involved the critical factors that affect the adoption of cloud services within the public sector. He is a noted expert in the IT and cybersecurity space and is frequently quoted by national media outlets. He is also a frequent contributor to national IT government organizations such as NASTD and NASCIO.

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