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CTERA Cloud Campus: The Keystone of Continued Growth and Value

Mastery, not mere adoption, is what drives lasting value. As technology evolves, so must the people who use it.
By Kyle Edsall
October 31, 2025

In enterprise technology, breakthroughs don’t come from new features alone but from understanding how to apply them. Mastery, not mere adoption, is what drives lasting value. As technology evolves, so must the people who use it. Ongoing education is no longer optional; it’s a core component of success.

At CTERA, we believe education is the most effective way for our customers and partners to unlock the full potential of their data infrastructure. Training transforms products into platforms and platforms into ecosystems. It’s what enables innovation to happen at the edge, where data lives, work gets done, and creativity begins.

Introducing the CTERA Cloud Campus

 

Today, we’re proud to introduce the CTERA Cloud Campus, a new global learning ecosystem designed to accelerate the knowledge and success of CTERA’s partners, customers, and users. The CTERA Cloud Campus unifies all of CTERA’s training initiatives, from foundational Administrator Training to advanced Deployment and Security modules, under a single, continuously evolving environment.

The CTERA Cloud Campus is more than a repository of courses; it’s a living network of expertise. It provides a framework where the collective insights of our diverse community, spanning engineers, developers, and architects from every region, directly shape how others learn and succeed. This shared knowledge creates new and exciting ways to use and unlock value from data, enabling every learner to contribute to and benefit from a smarter global CTERA ecosystem.

Building on Success: CTERA Deployment Training

Building on the foundation of the CTERA Cloud Campus, which already includes partner-oriented courses such as CTERA Product Overview and CTERA Technology, as well as the CTERA Administrator course for system administrators, we’re expanding our curriculum to support the next stage of partner and customer enablement. The newest addition, CTERA Deployment Training, goes beyond administration to cover the full lifecycle of environment design, sizing, and deployment. This course bridges theory and practice, enabling participants to master not just configuration, but also optimization, scalability, and real-world deployment excellence.

Certified Product Overview
Certified Technology
Certified Administrator
Certified Deployment

Hands-On Learning Without Boundaries

Behind every CTERA training experience is a powerful virtual lab environment designed to deliver a smooth, flexible, and scalable learning journey. Participants can spin up curated CTERA environments on demand, gaining hands-on access to real-world deployments without setup delays or hardware constraints. The lab infrastructure ensures consistent performance and reliability while allowing learners to explore freely, test configurations, and experiment safely. It’s how theory turns into practice, and how every course becomes an opportunity for true mastery.

Continuous Learning in the Age of AI

As generative AI becomes a defining force in how enterprises use their information, the skills to prepare, govern, and connect that data are increasingly essential. CTERA’s platform is already built for this next era, but education ensures our users are ready to meet it. Continuous learning is how organizations stay sharp in a landscape that never stands still; it’s also how value and expertise grow, one skill, one best practice, one breakthrough at a time.

A Personal Note

Helping build these courses is a privilege. It’s an opportunity to represent the vision and craftsmanship of our development and engineering teams and to translate their innovations into tangible outcomes for our users. There’s nothing more rewarding than watching customers not only adopt our platform, but flourish with it, continuously discovering new ways to make CTERA work smarter for them.

I hope to see you in the CTERA Cloud Campus, whether you’re deploying your first environment or refining your tenth, and to help you uncover the next layer of intelligence and value within your data.

  • Kyle is a 25+ year IT veteran as an IT Consultant, Technology Executive, Engineer, and most recently, Technical Product Marketing Manager for CTERA.