Virtual IT Labs
Nothing is better than learning by doing.
Virtual IT labs are essential for IT education and training, as well as for IT professionals who want to test and validate new technologies. Whether you need cloud-based labs, hardware labs, or require custom equipment for your training, we can work with you to create your ideal lab setup.
Multiple IT lab hosting options to fit any scale and budget
ReadyTech has hosting options to meet and exceed your IT lab needs no matter the situation
At ReadyTech we understand that virtual IT lab requirements vary depending on technology, use case, cost, and other unique variables. Whether you want to connect using a third party cloud provider, host on our cloud, require access to bare metal servers or require access to custom equipment, we’ve got you covered.
Axis
Axis turns your AWS, Azure or GCP account seamlessly into a training delivery solution
With Axis, not only are you able to seamlessly schedule, create, and tear down IT labs on either AWS, Azure or Google Cloud. You also keep your team away from managing complex cloud provider consoles with its user-friendly training-focused interface. Training coordinators, curriculum developers, and instructors can easily manage course templates, lab plans, and class schedules. Instead of running your virtual machines 24 hours per day, Axis will give you the ability to easily schedule instructor-led classes and provide ondemand lab time for self-paced and blended learning, saving valuable computing resources and money.
Why Axis
Easy-to-use interface
Using the cloud provider consoles to manage and deploy labs is difficult and cumbersome and can result in high cloud provider costs. A key goal of Axis is to isolate training staff from the complexities of working with the cloud providers console. Axis provides an easy-to-use, training-focused interface allowing you to work with familiar objects, such as course templates, classes, and student seats.
Cost Effective
Running virtual IT labs directly through the cloud provider often results in high provider costs due to virtual machines being left running unnecessarily. You can avoid all that with Axis. It allows you to start, pause, and terminate virtual training labs according to a schedule. Virtual machines will only run when needed and nobody has to remember to shut them down at the end of the day. When the event has finished, Axis will make sure that all cloud provider resources such as virtual machines, storage, and networks are terminated.
On-demand lab access
On-demand lab access is becoming more popular by the day for self-paced as well as blended learning programs. Students have the ability to access labs on their time from anywhere in the world. By adding ondemand lab time to an instructor-led schedule students will be able to work in their hands-on labs after class supporting the concept of blended learning. For self-paced lab access you want to give the students the flexibility to access the lab whenever they want but still stay in control of cost. Axis will allow you to do both.
Easy scheduling
Axis is a training management application that allows the scheduling and deployment of your labs, with one of the major cloud providers. This means you can pick the best cloud vendor for your specific needs, whether that’s price, platform availability, regional availability, corporate policy, or something else.
Secure, reliable connectivity
Secure and reliable connections to the lab are critical. The cloud providers natively offer public access to lab environments using tools, such as SSH and RDP. However, many firewalls block this kind of access, resulting in students and instructors not being able to connect. Axis includes ReadyTech HyperView—a proprietary viewer technology—which allows users to access their virtual training labs using firewall-friendly protocols and without labs being exposed to the open internet. HyperView provides a secure connection and high performance remote desktop experience with just a browser. No downloads, plug-ins or extensions required.
Partner management
Using training partners (ATPs) to deliver courses is a common practice but using a partner network comes with some challenges too. One of the challenges is making sure the partners use lab environments that perform well and are matching the lab instructions. Axis makes it really simple to share lab environments and stay in control of quality and provide a consistent learning environment for students. Cost allocation can be handled in various ways by either making the partner fully, partly or not responsible for expenses associated with virtual IT labs.
Axis Hub
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Instructor-Led PortalAn all-in-one turn-key solution for instructor-led training delivery. Including a full-featured virtual classroom with audio, webcam, whiteboards, and polls. Course materials management and remote lab access all through a single web portal.
Self-Paced PortalA high quality, on-demand learning experience specifically designed for self-paced learners. Access to course materials and hands-on labs in a single web portal.
AxisAxis is a training management application that allows deployment of your virtual training labs to one of the major cloud providers. Axis supports AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
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Instructor-led PortalAn all-in-one turn-key solution for instructor-led training delivery. Including a full-featured virtual classroom with audio, webcam, whiteboards, and polls. Course materials management and remote lab access all through a single web portal.
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Self-paced Portal A high quality, on-demand learning experience specifically designed for self-paced learners. Access to course materials and hands-on labs in a single web portal.
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Automate deployment and tear down of virtual labs on the 3 major cloud providers.
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Give instructors an overview and control of students' virtual labs. Other features include lab timers, inactivity monitors, help queues, chat, and screen sharing.
Automate deployment and tear down of virtual labs on the 3 major cloud providers.
LabManagerGive instructors an overview and control of students' virtual labs. Other features include lab timers, inactivity monitors, help queues, chat, and screen sharing.
Instructor-led PortalAn all-in-one turn-key solution for instructor-led training delivery. Including a full-featured virtual classroom with audio, webcam, whiteboards, and polls. Course materials management and remote lab access all through a single web portal.
Self-paced Portal A high quality, on-demand learning experience specifically designed for self-paced learners. Access to course materials and hands-on labs in a single web portal.
VM Management Automate deployment and tear down of virtual labs on the 3 major cloud providers.
LabManager Give instructors an overview and control of students' virtual labs. Other features include lab timers, inactivity monitors, help queues, chat, and screen sharing.
Google Authenticator 
Instructor-led Portal
Self-paced Portal Axis
Axis API
Google Authenticator
LabManager
Instructor-led PortalAn all-in-one turn-key solution for instructor-led training delivery. Including a full-featured virtual classroom with audio, webcam, whiteboards, and polls. Course materials management and remote lab access all through a single web portal.
Self-paced Portal A high quality, on-demand learning experience specifically designed for self-paced learners. Access to course materials and hands-on labs in a single web portal.
Automate deployment and tear down of virtual labs on the 3 major cloud providers.
LabManager Give instructors an overview and control of students' virtual labs. Other features include lab timers, inactivity monitors, help queues, chat, and screen sharing.
ReadyTech is a cost effective employee training platform. It helps us get hands-on experience and it’s an excellent option for virtual training suitable for both employees and trainers.
Don’t want to use AWS, Azure or GCP, no problem
Host your labs in ReadyTech’s data centers.
ReadyTech’s data centers offer a number of lab hosting options to meet your specific requirements and budget. Whether you are looking for a cloud-based solution, or hardware environment or need a complete custom IT lab environment, we have a solution for you.
Global Infrastructure to connect anywhere
Cloud Labs
Our cloud was designed from the ground up to provide the ideal solution for global IT training labs.
Not only has Johnson Controls reduced training costs, they’ve improved employee productivity 40% and experienced customer satisfaction levels well above 85%. Future plans include dramatically increasing their online training offerings, leveraging ReadyTech’s infrastructure to offer training to remote employees, and accessing a larger student market.
Better lab performance
Hardware Labs
Powerful bare metal servers for an ideal solution running hypervisor, ESXi, or Hyper-V.
Bare metal servers are the ideal solution when you need access to a hypervisor such as ESXi or Hyper-V and don’t want to jeopardize performance by double virtualizing on a cloud-based solution. A hypervisor can run many virtual machines per student and support any network topology. Beyond the lab quality IT professionals and students get faster response time, greater customization, and control of their lab environment. Basically, get options you can’t find in the cloud.
ReadyTech offers superb scalability - so now we can scale up and down as needed. ReadyTech also handles variable demand well, whether it's adjusting for the school year, software release cycles, class schedule changes - without breaking a sweat. They come through for us everytime.
Ben Schmitz
Training Services Project Manager
Custom Labs
Your hardware is not too custom or complex for ReadyTech.
As a technology company, we love custom hardware challenges. Whether you train on a proprietary network or security equipment, BIOS-level programming, or some abstract wireless equipment, we can host your virtual IT lab environment and scale it to your needs. We can host your proprietary equipment in our data centers or connect securely to your equipment in your office or data center.
Case Study
Johnson Controls partners with ReadyTech to reduce training delivery costs by 83%
This training initiative includes highly customized, virtual training labs that also increased their student pool through VILT software.
24/7 Live Support
Successful training delivery solutions don’t stop at great technology and reasonable pricing. That’s why we provide complimentary 24/7 live support to all of our customers, instructors and students. So no matter where you are teaching or what time your students are accessing their labs, ReadyTech 24/7 live support is always available.
