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Skytap is the equivalent of a 'NASA Mission Control' for our training operations. It gives us a real-time view of training classes in progress, while providing self-service empowerment for instructors to create and manage their own cloud-based classrooms. - Laughlin Elkind, Trainer & Technical Specialist, Support.Com

Skytap enables training organizations to take their existing classroom environments to the cloud. Customer education and training in the cloud provides a nimble and cost effective solution for the 'hands-on' component that has become so critical for new user success and customer adoption. Using Skytap's cloud-based Virtual Training solution, local or remote classrooms can be deployed immediately and training organizations can custom create classrooms for the exact number of students on any given day.

Key Benefits:

  • Empower instructors and students with training in the cloud
  • Perfectly align training cost with student demand
  • Launch a distance learning program
  • Automate classroom provisioning and tear-down
  • Deliver high quality remote training courses
  • Let instructors focus on course delivery instead of logistics
  • Dramatically reduce IT administration with Skytap's fully managed, hosted service
  • Reduce TCO and increase Training margins

Empower instructors and students with training in the cloud

Skytap is a simple, self-service virtual training platform that enables existing software-based training classes to be delivered over the Web. Skytap is built on industry-standard virtual machine infrastructure, so you can run existing software in the cloud without any code or architectural changes. Instructors and training administrators are empowered to create, provision, and deliver training curricula without being encumbered by traditional physical system or IT provisioning delays.

Perfectly align training cost with student demand

Because Skytap is a cloud service, it enables training organizations to scale up and scale down classroom resources as needed and pay only for what they use. Organizations, regardless of size, can align their tuition costs with demand. Training organizations never have to worry about underutilized classroom resources or a shortage of 'hands on' classroom seats.

Launch a distance learning program

Student environments in Skytap can be accessed through a high quality Web-based console from any location. This enables classes typically delivered in a physical environment to be transformed into a distance learning class. This delivery model reduces student travel expense and time away from the office for both students and instructors while providing far more flexibility in class schedules. With Skytap's remote over the shoulder access view, instructors can watch the entire class or each individual student as they perform required operations.

Automate classroom provisioning and tear-down

Skytap's Self Service Cloud Automation technology enables student environments, and complete virtual classrooms, to be saved as templates and replicated in a matter of seconds. Once a class is finished, student environments can be removed with the click of a mouse button. Training organizations often find Skytap's automation such a time-saver that they start using Skytap in their physical classrooms and access Skytap machines from the workstations in the class.

For an in-depth overview of Skytap's training solution, download the white paper on 'Reinventing the Virtual Classroom: Delivering Hands-On Training using Cloud Computing' to learn more.