Vendor lineage
ReadyTech - the class starts whether the lab is ready or not
Virtual training platform for hands-on laboratories in instructor-led and self-paced delivery.
ReadyTech provides browser-based laboratory environments for technical training, for instructor-led classes and self-paced courses alike, and can also bring existing classroom machines under the same management.
Two details in its own material describe the economics of this business better than any description of the technology. Class sizes have to scale from a few students to dozens, and unused environments have to be released when students do not appear - because a laboratory is provisioned before anyone knows who is actually coming, and somebody pays for the ones nobody uses.
The other is the support commitment. A laboratory failure during a live class is not a ticket; it is an hour of a room full of people, and there is no version of it that gets rescheduled quietly. That is why platforms in this category advertise the response time of their humans rather than the specification of their machines.
Its customers describe adopting it during the pandemic as a temporary measure and keeping it afterwards, which is the honest history of virtual delivery in this industry: it was a substitute that turned out to be a format.
- ReadyTech - a virtual training platform for browser-based information technology laboratories, instructor-led training and self-paced learning, with continuous human support and no long-term contracts; it can also turn existing classroom computers into managed virtual training environments; customer statements on the site describe scaling instructor-led class sizes and releasing unused lab environments when students do not attend, and one describes a solution adopted during the pandemic that became a permanent part of their training offering
The company’s own site is the reachable source for this entry. Independent coverage of it is thin, which is itself typical of the training-infrastructure category.
- ReadyTech’s own about page records that it launched in 2003