I'm not as up on the details as you'd probably want, but my understanding is that we're running it on a virtual server with a nice chunk of RAM and CPU locally

I'm not as up on the details as you'd probably want, but my understanding is that we're running it on a virtual server with a nice chunk of RAM and CPU locally at VT. I don't think we want to be at all reliant on external servers - this is FERPA protected data. Plus, the long term goal was to find a solution that other schools could adopt without being an R1.