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Arlo has opened a new data center in the US for North American training providers

Arlo Training & Events Software

Servers are protected by a Web Application Firewall, VPC segregation, IP-restricted port access and hardened OS configurations. Servers are regularly updated with vendor patches for known vulnerabilities. Database backups at rest are encrypted using AES-256.

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Is a cloud LMS necessary for small businesses?

Creativ Technologies

Also, they don’t have a large number of employees so access can never get restricted with a small server hosting the LMS. A local server-based LMS can’t provide such a privilege. Many vendors choose to pay a fee for one time. Therefore, before getting a cloud LMS, discuss these terms with the vendor. High security.

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Firewalls and Security in Software as a Service

Tony Karrer

For us to be successful doing this, we first need to make sure that the system will work with whatever firewall restrictions exist. Elluminate did not work through several firewalls, so we had to switch to WebEx. It's still better than having to install software behind the firewall. That's its job. Look at security.

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Learning Solutions Conference Day 1, my recap

Challenge to Learn

In fact the cloud is nothing else then a bunch of web servers behind a firewall, like the servers data would live on your corporate servers. He was just starting up a panel with vendors of cloud based tools. But without knowing over 90% of them uses the cloud. Good presentation and good initiative.

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SAAS LMSs and Vendor Client Lists Questions

eLearning 24-7

What is SAAS and why is hosted better than having it on your own servers. The bottom line without getting technical or overly detailed, the solution is hosted on your vendor’s servers and not hosted on your internal servers. Benefits versus having it on my servers (behind my firewall).

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4 Key Emerging Trends in LMS

Upside Learning

Gone are the days when having your own staff running your own servers behind your own firewall provided a sense of security and control. Could-based LMSs have the capacity to bring down your Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), something that has being largely overlooked during LMS vendor comparisons.

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Open Source LMSs Facts and Insight

eLearning 24-7

Here is a sampling of those vendors on the (“Alternative to Moodle). Bonus – One commercial vendor, Paradiso, presents “Open Source LMS, “Best Open Source LMS”, you can find this doozy on any search engine. Have servers on site? It is also fee-based. for you, also for a fee.