Infrastructure

Infrastructure advisories and policies description page

Infrastructure Policies

3D Printing

This guide highlights some of the choices in deploying 3D printers into maker spaces, and in more formal fabrication spaces.

Application Architecture Checklist

A tool to assess applications (e.g. developed, licensed, and SaaS solutions) for inclusion in the application portfolio. The checklist includes important considerations that must be accommodated and those that should be honored.

Architecture Layers

Harvard University’s vision for enterprise architecture is to articulate and drive to common solutions, standards, and opportunities for alignment in order to reduce IT complexity and cost across the University and enable local innovation.

Audiovisual Systems Standards

This document includes links to the HUIT standards for audiovisual systems to assist departments as they plan for change and expansion. 

AWS Account Management

The HUIT standard for the design and management of AWS accounts to control for the lack of accountability and reduction in economies of scale that can take place in a large and decentralized institution.

Cloud Asset Naming Conventions

This document presents a consolidated reference for consistent naming of Cloud Resources across all IT Organizations, which benefits the University in cost savings, automation and reduction of ambiguity.

Cloud Resource Tagging

This document describes the required metadata tags for Cloud Resources (e.g. instances, volumes, snapshots, managed databases, load balancers, distributed caching services) so that resources can be effectively leveraged across stakeholders.

Communities of Practice

The Enterprise Architecture team facilitates several active Communities of Practice (CoPs) that bring people across Harvard together to share expertise, explore new ideas, and collaborate on emerging topics. These CoPs create spaces for learning and...

Data Trust Model

A set of documents that define a Trust Model, describe what is currently in place, and a plan to move toward reducing complexity and the need for data sources to provision applications individually.

Digital Accessibility Policy

The Harvard University Digital Accessibility Policy addresses the needs of individuals with disabilities who seek to use University Websites to participate in University programs and activities and/or conduct University Business.

Directory Services Recommendations

This document outlines a mid-term future-state vision, strategy and design approach for directory services across the University to address overlapping services and data, inconsistent provisioning, and varying levels of support.

General API Development Recommendations

A set of principles that guide the selection of standards for APIs at Harvard and general development recommendations that impact effective interoperation of our systems and services.

HEART

The HUIT Engineering and Architecture Review Team (HEART) was launched in 2019 to strengthen collaboration and decision-making around technology at Harvard. HEART reviews major IT initiatives and architecture decisions, providing guidance on strategy...

How Many Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs)?

This analysis of the architecture guidance on the number of production VPCs (Virtual Private Clouds) for services deployed in AWS examines four dimensions: Security, Cost, Operations, and Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery.

Improved Support for Research in the Cloud

This document discusses the top challenges researchers experience in the use of the Cloud and provides recommendations and guiding principles for putting a solution into place.

IT Resource Standard for Enterprise Tags

This HUIT standard presents a discussion and implementation guide for incorporating enterprise level meta-data on IT resources and infrastructure. Details of the tags can be found in the attached pdf document.

IT Security Policies

These Information Security Requirements apply to everyone at Harvard. They provide additional detail on how to be compliant with Policy and should be used as a normal part of daily life at Harvard in order to keep both Harvard confidential data and your...

Multiple Applications on a Compute Instance

This document outlines potential problems associated with multiple applications running on a single instance, describes current best practices for isolating production applications, and makes recommendations to mitigate potential problems when best...

Operational Monitoring

This document defines a basic set of data elements related to operational monitoring and instrumentation that should be provided by systems on-premises, in our AWS Cloud, or a SaaS provider.

Infrastructure

3D Printing

This guide highlights some of the choices in deploying 3D printers into maker spaces, and in more formal fabrication spaces.

AWS Account Management

The HUIT standard for the design and management of AWS accounts to control for the lack of accountability and reduction in economies of scale that can take place in a large and decentralized institution.

Cloud Asset Naming Conventions

This document presents a consolidated reference for consistent naming of Cloud Resources across all IT Organizations, which benefits the University in cost savings, automation and reduction of ambiguity.

Cloud Resource Tagging

This document describes the required metadata tags for Cloud Resources (e.g. instances, volumes, snapshots, managed databases, load balancers, distributed caching services) so that resources can be effectively leveraged across stakeholders.

How Many Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs)?

This analysis of the architecture guidance on the number of production VPCs (Virtual Private Clouds) for services deployed in AWS examines four dimensions: Security, Cost, Operations, and Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery.

Improved Support for Research in the Cloud

This document discusses the top challenges researchers experience in the use of the Cloud and provides recommendations and guiding principles for putting a solution into place.

IT Resource Standard for Enterprise Tags

This HUIT standard presents a discussion and implementation guide for incorporating enterprise level meta-data on IT resources and infrastructure. Details of the tags can be found in the attached pdf document.

Multiple Applications on a Compute Instance

This document outlines potential problems associated with multiple applications running on a single instance, describes current best practices for isolating production applications, and makes recommendations to mitigate potential problems when best...

Operational Monitoring

This document defines a basic set of data elements related to operational monitoring and instrumentation that should be provided by systems on-premises, in our AWS Cloud, or a SaaS provider.

Software & OS Package Sourcing Guidelines

The purpose of this document is to provide guidance and governance for the sourcing of software and packages installed standalone or as part of an operating system on HUIT supported systems.