Lab hosting for VATC: what we offer

5 April 2024

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Ascend Cloud Solutions offers lab hosting services to VATC (VMware educational providers). Find out more.

 Ascend is a cloud solutions company founded by ex-VMware cloud technology experts. With decades of combined experience across the entire VMware software portfolio, our team of cloud architects has the expertise to deliver exceptional results for our customers. 
 
Alongside our migration and consultation services, we offer lab hosting services to VATC. Here's why you should consider choosing us for lab hosting. 
 
Why choose Ascend? 
 
At Ascend, we have a solution-oriented, highly collaborative culture that ensures we deliver at scale and identify potential issues before they start. 
 
For the past three years, we've delivered VMware labs to students across the globe. We partnered with a local data centre provider to design and deploy a robust, reliable platform from the ground up. 
 
We specialise in the largest and most complex labs, successfully running HCX, VCF and VMC on AWS classes at scale, with an exceptional end-user experience. 
 
VMware has chosen us for lab hosting because of our track record in providing VMware course content creation, lab design, deployment and course delivery. 
 
Our services have included: 

  • VMware HCX
  • VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery
  • VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
  • VMC on AWS
  • Migrating to VCF
  • Tanzu Kubernetes
  • Quickbytes Education content

 
Ascend has hosted an average of 3,500 student vApps per year, with the capacity to run more. We support partners in any region with our staff located in NASA, EMEA and APAC. 
 
Our VMware expertise allows us to provide next-level support to the VMware education team and course instructors. 
 
We don't just look at the infrastructure when a support ticket is created. The Ascend support team can pinpoint issues such as student mistakes, misconfigurations and missed lab steps that can take up valuable time and delay student progress. 
 
We have a deep understanding of the nested virtualisation that comprises the education lab environments, meaning speedy problem-solving, happy instructors and above all, happy students. 
 
Student satisfaction is a priority for us. Everything we do is informed by the principle that a happy student is a returning student. 
 
We draw on trending analysis from received support tickets to create knowledge base articles. This externally accessible site has reduced our ticket generation by 75%. 
 
We're continually looking to provide instantly accessible articles to instructors as a way of further reducing student delays and ensuring a quality end-user experience. 
 
Overall, Ascend delivers a reliable, robust lab hosting platform, an unrivalled level of support, and a superior student experience. 
 
What do you need to do next? 
 
Contact our team to start your journey. We're confident you'll be sold on our team and our platform from day one. 
 
Still not sure? 
 
As well as being high in quality, our offerings are low in price. Take a look at our competitive rates.

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