#  First Cloud Deployment - Connections 

 





March 26, 2014

 

 

On Tuesday, March 25th the first cloud application went live. The release is a new version of the Internal Directory for Harvard. The application is known today as Harvard Connections, and it is accessed from the public directory homepage at [www.directory.harvard.edu](http://www.directory.harvard.edu) or at connections.harvard.edu.

New features include:

- improved searching
- simplified display and navigation
- cleaner display on mobile devices

The release of this project represents our first end-user application to be fully deployed to the cloud. This is doubly significant as it achieves the HUIT FY14 Top 40 Strategic Goal to "**Experiment with new technologies and new service delivery models****"** with the objective **"****Deploy a community-facing application to the cloud.****"**

Michael Liu said the following to the IAM team after the release: "Thanks for everyone's great work on this. It's our first application in the cloud!"

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