VMware is announcing a new set of live, online training
courses specifically geared toward small to mid-size business customers.
All of the training taken together is a four-day, 16-hour, live and online
training course covering VMware's vSphere enterprise cloud computing and
virtualization platform. The focus for SMB customers is to enable their IT
operations to become more agile and responsive while integrating existing
infrastructures and managing costs.
Jackie Skinner from VMware's SMB global marketing team acknowledged
in a blog post on Thursday that "sometimes getting the budget and time away
from the office to attend training can be a challenge" for IT departments.
Thus, the courses have been divided up into two-hour sessions with the
intention of preventing trainees from having to be offline for an extended
period of time so they can continue working even as they learn.
That's still a sizable chunk of time for many employees, but users are
supposed to be able to revisit content with 30-day access to a recording of your
class. Furthermore, the training is designed to act as self-paced labs, which is
reinforced with DVR-like instant replay functionality.
Michael Yakiemchuk, director of the Americas Education group at VMware, added
via email that "with limited IT budgets and staff, these SMB employees have
often been underserved by enterprise-focused training programs and that’s why
this new set of VMware educational offerings specifically addresses the needs of
these important customers."
In addition to these courses, VMware still hosts more than 50 instructional
on-demand videos on its education site intended for small business IT staff.
A
schedule listing the four-day live courses throughout the first half of 2013
is online now.
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