Accelerate Your Career With Digital Skills
We provide academic institutions with authorized VMware courses, curricula and support to educate students and accelerate their careers.
Academic institutions leverage prepackaged courses and ongoing support on current, relevant technologies to teach their students, driving real-world educational value.
Students master technologies that increase their value to potential employers, position them for career success and help them create the future they envision.
Organizations around the world gain a pipeline of skilled, diverse talent versed in VMware solutions to mitigate the global shortage of technical professionals.
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Accelerate your career with digital skills, from virtualization to app modernization and more, that are in demand today and well into the future.
Enhance your reputation for delivering valuable real-world skills and a solid educational ROI with VMware-authorized courses from IT Academy.
Focusing on high-demand careers, our courses teach vital digital skills, familiarize students with VMware solutions and help course-takers gain related certifications at discounted rates. Our courses form learning paths such as:
Foundational courses are offered at no cost and familiarize students, including those with little or no formal IT training, with fundamental concepts in virtualization, multi-cloud and modern apps.
Knowledge in these areas can help facilitate a student’s entry into the IT field or enable professionals outside of IT to collaborate with colleagues within IT.
Certification-focused courses help learners enhance their existing skills or gain entirely new skills in high-demand areas.
Designated courses also prepare students to achieve VMware Certified Technical Associate (VCTA) or VMware Certified Professional (VCP) credentials.
The global IT professional shortage is particularly intense in fields requiring specialized skills or emerging technologies. Our learning pathways educate students to mitigate those intense shortages.
The global IT professional shortage is particularly intense in fields requiring specialized skills or emerging technologies. Our learning pathways educate students to mitigate those intense shortages.
Each learning pathway offers courses designed specifically to make students job-ready, as well as one or more VCTA-focused sequences and one or more VCP-focused sequences.
This pathway focuses on skills that modern system administrators require in areas such as cloud and virtualization, data center operations, and VMware vSphere® install, configure and manage.
The multi-cloud pathway teaches skills needed in multi-cloud environments such as network and technical skills, cloud management, automation and virtual network operations.
The modern apps pathway in application modernization covers areas such as Kubernetes administration, containerization and Java Spring and Spring Boot usage.
5 hours
Getting started in information technology introduces the student to key concepts that underlie much of information technology. The course provides a set of overview concepts that create familiar landmarks to help students navigate the world of information technology.
10–15 hours
Cloud and virtualization concepts build on the student’s familiarity with everyday computing to introduce topics such as the use and benefits of virtual machines, the flexibility of cloud computing and the basics of vSphere components.
9–12 hours
Software-Defined Storage concepts introduce students who are comfortable with basic IT concepts to more specialized concepts fundamental to data centers, such as traditional data center storage, software-defined storage and VMware vSAN™.
9–12 hours
Network virtualization concepts provides the student with basic network virtualization notions. The course covers major VMware NSX® components in the data, management and control planes. Additionally, it covers their interactions and provides use cases.
The courses VMware provides are complete curricula that include lab activities, extension activities and more, reducing the time required of instructors to create course content in specialized IT topics.
IT Academy members receive academic software licensing for teaching, research and personal use, whether as part of STEAM classes or for gaining hands-on experience with VMware products.
Offering IT Academy courses enhances an institution’s reputation for delivering in-demand, job-ready digital skills and a solid return on the students’ educational investment.
IT Academy is committed to supporting member academies every step of the way. This video is designed to help new academies get off to a solid start.
The IT Academy interactive online community provides a forum where administrators and educators from member academies can ask questions, share best practices, learn about new courses and more.
IT Academy facilitates events, digital and in person, around the world. We welcome the opportunity to meet or speak with current and prospective member academies at these upcoming events.
VMware has a long history of working closely with colleges and universities, beginning with our founders who pioneered virtual machines at Stanford University, to our partnerships today that help students build the capabilities to advance their careers and the field of IT overall.
System Administrators, or SysAdmins, may work in a variety of IT areas, such as cloud and virtualization, data center operations and system administration.
Modern Applications Specialists transform outdated software that businesses rely on into modern applications using skills such as containerization and Kubernetes administration.
Multi-Cloud Specialists have the skills needed to work in multi-cloud environments, such as network and technical skills, cloud management and automation.
5 hours
Getting started in information technology will introduce you to key concepts you need to know no matter what job you want to pursue in information technology. The course steps you through the building block ideas and concepts that will help you succeed in your new information technology career.
10–15 hours
Cloud and virtualization concepts build on what you already know from everyday computing. You’ll learn topics such as the use and benefits of virtual machines, the flexibility of cloud computing and the basics of VMware vSphere® components.
9–12 hours
Software-Defined Storage concepts are for you if you are already comfortable with basic IT concepts. You will learn more specialized concepts fundamental to data centers, such as traditional data center storage, software-defined storage and VMware vSAN™.
9–12 hours
Network virtualization concepts introduces you to basic network virtualization concepts. The course covers the major VMware NSX® components in the data, management, and control planes and their interactions, and provides sample use cases.
IT Academy facilitates events, digital and in person, around the world. We look forward to meeting you at these upcoming events.
IT Academy helps academic institutions around the world provide students with the in-demand digital skills that will jump-start their careers.
Institutions partner with IT Academy to deliver VITA Days to students.
Tanzu Build-A-Thon helps students acquire in-demand skills.
Building an industry-ready talent pool in India.
Helping students move from the schoolroom to the workplace.
Helping students become virtualization and cloud computing experts.
Extending virtualization expertise across multiple campuses.
Helping early career students like Giorgio Panizzari follow their passion.
Promoting cloud and virtualization technologies throughout the community.
Learn why FDETEC chose IT Academy to help deliver cloud and virtualization content.
Learn why UPS chose IT Academy to help deliver cloud and virtualization content.
IT Academy and NDG help train students on vSphere ICM.
IT Academy partners with NDG to drive VCP-DCV certifications.
Learn why FDETEC chose IT Academy to help deliver cloud and virtualization content.
Learn why UPS chose IT Academy to help deliver cloud and virtualization content.
MX Sales & VITA success story
Providing students the skills and certification to enter the IT workforce.
Training 200 instructors across Egypt in cloud and virtualization concepts.
IT Academy organizes on-the-job training for graduating students.
Creating a new generation of expertly skilled IT professionals in Africa.
Inspiring students to pursue careers in cybersecurity with IT Academy.
Offering critical IT Skills to students in North Carolina and beyond.
Read what students and instructors have to say about their experiences in learning and teaching VMware technology.
Shared private cloud environment helps lead positive change.
Educating students across multiple academic and military institutions.
Academic Software Licensing Program provides new opportunities.
Learning about VMware, a global leader in virtualization and the cloud through VMware IT Academy UPS was of great importance, mainly because of the professional area in which I work, therefore, acquiring knowledge in the virtualization of a Data Center is important to improve skills in the IT framework.
VMware IT Academy has provided VMware Canada with great opportunities to use technology as a force for good, helping us build IT capacity with Indigenous communities, post-secondary institutions, and governments across the country. These partnerships have created new relationships for our public sector sales team, while giving back to communities.
The VMware Software Licensing Program has provided valuable software for me to demonstrate software-defined data center and the private cloud infrastructure in the classroom.
Having been part of VMware IT Academy, opened the door to a lot of knowledge in virtualization that was out of my reach, besides that, thanks to my effort, I could get an official VMware digital badge that certifies my acquired knowledge.
VMware software enables our students, researchers, and partners to connect to realistic emulated environments to conduct experiments isolated from actual production networks. This allows for users to run emulated actions on advanced industrial control topologies without any danger of disrupting operations.
VMware has a long history of working closely with colleges and universities, beginning with our founders who pioneered virtual machines at Stanford University, to our partnerships today that help students build the capabilities to advance their careers and the field of IT overall.
The VMware Academic Program has allowed us to infuse virtualization into almost everything we teach by providing us full access to their virtualization software for student use. For one low annual flat rate we have each student using what would amount to tens of thousands of dollars in licensed software. It’s just incredible!
DL2 is IT Academy’s learning platform.
Kivuto is the previous iteration of IT Academy’s learning platform.
NDG offers solutions that enable learners to gain skills in virtualization, cloud and cybersecurity.
Gilmore Global is a resource for printed versions of IT Academy materials.