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Lessons Learned From the Trenches of Virtual Training 2010 John R. Sciandra, CISSP John R. Sciandra, CISSP johnrs@nacon.com 443-336-1826 1 UNCLASSIFIED 1R2ADFA en What IS virtual training? Results 1 - 10 of about 64,500,000 for what is


  1. Lessons Learned From the Trenches of Virtual Training 2010 John R. Sciandra, CISSP John R. Sciandra, CISSP johnrs@nacon.com 443-336-1826 1 UNCLASSIFIED

  2. 1R2ADFA en What IS virtual training? Results 1 - 10 of about 64,500,000 for what is what is virtual training virtual training . ( 0.31 seconds) CD baseD Compute r base d WEB Based FLASH SH! We thought we knew what virtual training was. Turns Virtual Machines out so did everyone else: 2 UNCLASSIFIED

  3. Does it have to be Scalable? The first question we were ever asked was: Is it scalable? We asked ourselves: What does that mean? 3 UNCLASSIFIED

  4. What about Standards for Training Systems?  We initially ran forward. Then hit the Brick Wall of Standards Thanks Robby Robson! 4 UNCLASSIFIED

  5. Portability Of Student Records Buckets of information dealing with Content. 5 UNCLASSIFIED

  6. What About Resources? Hardware? Ban dwi dth ? Support Software? People? 6 UNCLASSIFIED

  7. Our Version of The Army SURGE!!! An Army mandate for training a particular course overwhelmed the system: • Triage – work to distribute the load with AKO and Fort Gordon; • Define how training records were to be inserted into the 8570 database; • Post analysis showed slow and inefficient queries and bandwidth constraints. "Photo Courtesy of U.S. Army" 7 UNCLASSIFIED

  8. The Course From (Not heaven) Took on the creation of a hands on training course for a system made up of at least 12 SPARC servers. • Had to learn how to further optimize our tools including Virtual Machine creation; • Pull in support from the application developer • (and) solve contracting issues; • Change how many students we could accept until bandwidth and performance was fixed. 8 UNCLASSIFIED

  9. What about Social Tools? Definite Pros and Cons Uncertaintanty Perception Security Concerns When done properly can broaden the appeal and usefulness of your training program 9 UNCLASSIFIED

  10. Mobile? I need reference material on the Flight Line! I want access to my learning points at More and More demand to move the place where I will use it! into the mobile training environment. Consider how to develop your content with a structure that facilitates pulling out the salient information in a mobily-presentable way. 10 C SS

  11. Contact Info John R. Sciandra, CISSP johnrs@nacon.com John.sciandra@us.army.mil 443-336-1826 11 C SS

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