Online Training

Every business uses software to get business done and in many cases to gain a competitive edge. Making sure your customers, partners, and employees can use your current versions effectively and be prepare for the latest updates requires proper training. The most effective training is when people can get hands on with whatever their learning.

Training teams small and large are faced with many road blocks when it comes to setting up software training sessions. They need to effectively balance demands for greater efficiency and cost control, while enabling students to get “hands-on” with enterprise applications as well as provide greater course flexibility and responsiveness

DuoMyth’s Solution

DuoMyth’s Microsoft Azure hosted lab environments allow teams to put their training environments in the cloud.

Valhalla provides a self-service platform that allows managers and trainers to provision simple and complex environments running Windows or Linux. It’s easy to create, then replicate and share your training software environments with employees, partners, and customers.

Benefits

Software training managers can provide actual, hands-on IT environments to multiple students across locations, in minutes, without on-site presence.

Because it’s hosted in Microsoft’s Azure cloud, the virtual lab infrastructure allows instructors to rapidly make fully functional copies of complete application environments, instantly replicating and sharing these now online-accessible environments with students.

In an ideal situation, each environment copy is an entirely separate virtual instance, which may include multiple virtual servers, complex networking, security, and other features.

Training managers can quickly scale up or ramp down classroom resources as needed - while maintaining existing configurations, applications, and topologies. Better yet, training managers are able to manage and track all deployments from a central location, with full visibility into what users are doing with their virtual environments. This allows for a student experience that is indistinguishable from a dedicated on-site installation.

Getting Started

Valhalla is flexible based on your needs. DuoMyth can host your images in our Azure account letting your pay per VM. We can also help your provision your own Valhalla environment in your Azure subscription. Valhalla is designed to let you scale from a single deployment in a single Azure data center to multiple, replicated environments in any of the Azure data centers.

Contact info@duomyth.com for more information.

About DuoMyth

DuoMyth is a born-in-the cloud start up created by Brian Randell and Ian Griffiths to make education easier and more affordable.

About Valhalla

Valhalla is a training platform purpose built with care by DuoMyth on Microsoft Azure using ASP.NET and C#. It allows you to run hands-on training sessions for individual classes to large scale conferences.

Students get access to their own virtual machines via Remote Desktop (Windows) or SSH (Linux). Each student can have one or more virtual machines in an isolated configuration or they can work with other students in a shared, multi-virtual machine environment.