UC Berkeley developed our 3 Pillar Infrastructure computing strategy in 2021 to guide investments in the University computing infrastructure, from on-campus data center spaces (the “local pillar”), new investment in data center capacity in partnership with NASA at Moffett Field (the “offsite colocation pillar”), and a public cloud pillar.

We live in a world awash in data. As individuals and as a society we need to learn how to better understand, analyze, and use it. To that end, Berkeley recently started an exciting initiative to teach every undergraduate the fundamentals of data science.

The most salient recent developments have been in focusing our work to align with the Chancellor’s strategy – in the case of cloud computing, especially towards support for scaling up Jupyterhub to meet the needs of the Division of Data Sciences.

I wanted to share a brief overview of UC Berkeley’s Cloud Strategy so that anyone can get a sense of it in a few minutes. The most important takeaway is that it directs our focus always to be ‘University First’. As a campus, we must invest in technology that meets the needs of the campus mission for our faculty, students, and administration – rather than focusing on technology first or ‘Cloud First’.