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Your Competitive Edge, Delivered Through Ascend
The Red Hat Ascend Skills Network is a comprehensive, scalable enablement program designed to transform partners into highly skilled practitioners of Red Hat® technologies. It directly addresses the critical industry challenge of the skills gap by going beyond traditional training. Ascend functions as a strategic platform that curates the right mix of resources, experts, and curriculum.
By emphasizing hands-on, scenario-based learning, the program ensures professionals gain the practical expertise needed to deliver complex hybrid cloud solutions, drive customer success, and effectively accelerate business outcomes. Join a community of over 5000+ Red Hat technology specialists and build your skills and expertise to drive successful open source solutions.
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Ascend focuses on cultivating project-ready Red Hat practitioners. The program bridges the gap between basic knowledge and hands-on expertise, ensuring partner associates have the technical mastery to lead and deliver complex Red Hat deployments.
Who is the target audience?
Red Hat Partners ready to scale. This program is for strategic partners who want to build a high-performance technical bench, empower their key account teams, and maintain a verified, organization-wide database of certified talent.
The program rapidly builds practitioner-level expertise by curating a high-impact curriculum, leveraging real-world experts, and utilizing simulated, scenario-based environments. This approach transforms technical teams into project-ready practitioners and consultants who can deliver complex, hybrid cloud solutions with assured proficiency, minimize deployment risk, and secure shared position as trusted advisors to customers.
Program benefits for partners
- Receive comprehensive program support to consistently achieve enablement goals. This includes regular tracking of metrics, office hours, and training challenges linked to Market Development Funds (MDF).
- Develop talent at scale and strengthen Red Hat expertise within strategic accounts and teams.
- Gain no-cost early access to partner programs, such as virtual instructor-led sessions, webinars, and expert sessions.
- Build an organization wide skilled pool on Red Hat technologies.
Webinars:
Our Ascend Engage On Air series offers technical sessions that explore Red Hat technologies. Register for our virtual sessions today and take your learning journey to new heights. These sessions provide invaluable insights directly from experts, helping you master new skills. Don’t miss this opportunity to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving technological landscape
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