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Maplewood Hosting service
provides a turnkey solution that handles the purchase,
installation, configuration and maintenance of Maplewood hardware
and software. This service results in an easy and secure way to
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Financial Predictability
- Hosting is provided at a flat subscription fee with lower up-front
investment and predictable annual payments. The overall costs for
hardware, applications and management can be greatly reduced.
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Reduced system
administration costs
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No district time is
required to troubleshoot environment issues or update software versions.
All this is done behind the scenes, which means the district can spend
more resources on other critical projects.
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No upgrade costs
- Server and software updates are done regularly as part of the annual
hosting fee, as such; the board is always running on the latest version
of the software in the most stable and secure environment that can be
provided.
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Quicker Implementation
- Maplewood has extensive knowledge and experience on setting up,
migrating and implementing Maplewood Enterprise. Within a few weeks the
district can be set up and hosted.
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High Availability
- The Hosting service is a robust hardware infrastructure based on the
best IT practices for superior levels of availability, backup, and
disaster recovery.
- The hosting facility is connected to redundant uninterruptible power
supplies capable of running the servers for hours, and continues to
provide uninterrupted access to data. Fail-over backup servers and
redundant hardware are utilized to take over hardware failures.
- Data is managed on a SAN server for the highest level of data
integrity and redundancy. Backups are also done regularly to provide a
quick restore point in the unlikely event a SAN failure.
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Scalability
- Demands and distribution of loads on the servers are managed by
hardware and software resources, this includes the use of clustering,
load balancing and distributed architectures. Critical loads are
reported, and additional servers can be added to the cluster at anytime
without interrupting service.
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Management and Maintenance
- Maplewood handles all the regular maintenance and upkeep of the
servers to ensure that hard disk, memory, backup, OS patches and other
resource issues are caught before they cause downtime. All updates,
including Maplewood software, are done during off hours.
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Security
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Maplewood follows
Microsoft’s Best Practices for deploying and implementing Web Servers
including lock down procedures. OS and security patches are updated
regularly, verified on test servers, and then updated on production
servers. Access to data is secure. All communication between the server
and the web browser is encrypted through SSL or VPN, checked for
viruses, malicious code, and phishing attacks using Trend Micro
InterScan software. As well, user account policy, port management, and
firewall configuration help to keep data safe and secure.
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Maplewood Expertise
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One of Maplewood’s core
competencies is the knowledge and expertise of managing and updating
servers. Maplewood has a team of dedicated professionals with many years
of experience implementing, deploying, and troubleshooting servers. Our
technical team has been involved in many centralized implementations
ranging from 100 to 25000 students, and servicing thousands of users.
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Lower Internal
Maintenance Costs
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Applications are delivered
through the Internet using existing web browsers. No additional IT
resources are required to update the client systems. Optionally the
Remote Desktop Connection program, included with Windows 2000 and above,
can be used to connect to your data.
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Updated
2010-07-20
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