Azure Lab Services vs. VMware Learning Platform

Azure Lab Services is incredibly beneficial to our school board as a replacement for high-end graphics workstations needed for courses utilizing 3d graphics - the Autodesk and Adobe suites of products. The devices have a cost that is considerably higher than our line of business devices. These high-end devices are designated only for use with those courses meaning that the devices remained underutilized. Azure Lab Services isn't a good replacement for regular workloads as the overhead for management is considerable compared to regular devices.

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If you need to prepare for certification, this is a great platform as the on-demand version you can retain much more content spread out over time.

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• 3d Graphics powered machines
• Ease of deployment
• Ease of Access
• Ease of Management

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• let's you watch the curriculum again.
• helps prepare for certification
• makes it convenient to watch when you have time.

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• Better organization integration
• improve integration with MECM/System Center/Intune
• Improve HTML5 interface

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• I think the cost is a bit high for just watching pre-recorded videos
• sometimes the labs don't work right but it's not very often.

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Azure Virtual Desktop is an excellent tool for extending your existing infrastructure to the cloud and providing the same experience to users in both on-premises and virtual environments. Azure Lab Services, with its quicker setup time, and lack of connection to existing domains provides the ability to quickly spin up virtual environments for use for experimentation, learning, or delivering production resources.

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VMware Learning Platform is authorized for taking the cert test, where the Pluralsight course is not an authorized class equivalent

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• Reduced Capital Costs for 3d Workloads
• Ability to transition to Hybrid or Learn@Home and provide curriculum resources
• HTML FrontEnd provides ease of use from any HTML5 device

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• no effect on business objectives but great on personal objectives of certification.

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