Product Roadmap

Latest updates on CloudLabs
2022
Support Nested Templates (Upcoming)

The support for Nested Templates will ensure that the deployments are easy and straightforward for all the scenarios in Azure.

2022
CloudLabs and CloudEvents (Hackathons) receive COPPA certification

The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) imposes certain requirements on operators of websites or online services to protect the privacy of children under the age of 13.

2022
Recursive VM Uptime

The overall lab duration can be split according to the course duration. A 3-hour lab can be split across three months limiting usage of 1 hour per month. The uptime will automatically replenish after 30 days. Course admins can schedule the uptime to align with their courses/ODLS. It improves cost efficiency and reduces the manual effort for VM Uptime extension.

2022
Cloudlabs VM agent

The CloudLabs VM agent will trigger notifications when VMs are idle to save resources. It will help shut down Virtual Machines when not in use, enable notifications, and optimize costs.

September 2022
CloudLabs and CloudEvents receive FERPA certification

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) of 1974 supports and promotes the protection of privacy and reasonable governance of student education records.

June 2022
Credit Split across the required course duration.

Instructors can split credit limits for students over the course of semesters to ensure a smooth transition of resources from semester to semester and avoid undue overuse.

June 2022
Spektra Systems Successfully Completes SOC 2 Type II Certification and GDPR Readiness

SOC 2 requires companies to establish and follow strict information security policies and procedures, encompassing the security, availability, and confidentiality of all customer data. There were more than 90 control points defined for which Spektra provided all the required evidence and specimens successfully completing the audit and receiving the Compliance Status Report from the auditors.

May 2022
Spektra Systems has earns the Windows Server and SQL Server Migration to Microsoft Azure Advanced Specialization

This is yet another milestone achieved by Spektra Systems, demonstrating the years of experience and expertise it has gained in successfully migrating client workloads to Azure. Alongside Windows and SQL server migration, ISVs, organizations, and educational Institutions can leverage CloudLabs to migrate their lab infrastructure to Cloud and benefit from Azure on-demand labs provisioning. and benefit from Azure on-demand labs provisioning.

March 2022
AWS Resource Cleanup

CloudLabs is currently providing a number of AWS resources for VMs, and many more are to be added shortly. Meanwhile, users can enjoy efficient clean-up of resources after lab termination.

February 2022
The all-new Optimized disc cost feature with SKU alteration depending upon VM status.

CloudLabs’ primary focus is to enable efficient usage of resources that generate minimum billables. With this new feature, CloudLabs generates an automated process wherein SKU alters between Premium SSD and Standard HDD  upon stopping and restarting VMs. This ensures saving resources when labs are idle or not in use and help you optimize your cloud spend.

January 2022
Cloudlabs enables Credit based allocation for effective resource consumption

Credit based allocation is a new feature that helps instructors/students to track their credit consumption. Once the admin/instructor assigns a certain credit limit for students, Cloudlabs will send timely notifications based on consumption to instructors and students. Instructors can decide credit thresholds which is the percentage of resource consumption based on which notifications will be triggered.

November 2021
CloudLabs Releases New Dashboard

CloudLabs has released a new feature, an update though aimed at our long-term partner Databricks but serving all our clients and users. With this update, instructors can now access all information from their Dashboards at one place.

2020
VM Uptime

The VM Uptime feature enables admins to set the VM Uptime at the ODL Level. If the VM uptime is set at 40 minutes for an 8-hour lab, once the attendees lab VM runs for 40 minutes, it will be shut down by CloudLabs. If attendees wish to extend the VM uptime, they should reach out to the instructor. This feature helps optimize the cost of running a lab.

2020
Lab validation

CloudLabs enables validations that help instructors/admins to monitor the progress and efficiency of lab delivery. They can know whether the student/attendee has performed the lab and also validate if the steps were performed correctly.

2019
Instructor Shadow

Instructors can monitor the attendee environment and help them fix their issues without using their credentials. Instructors can also use their credentials to monitor the attendee's cloud environments.

2019
Usage Policy

The alerting mechanism sends alerts to the admin team if a student deploys the resource's SKU more than required. Admins can configure the number of cores, SKUs, and other specifications of resources that are to be deployed in the lab.

2019
VM access over HTTPS

Some companies have security constraints which blocks them from accessing Machines using the Remote Desktop Protocol. To overcome this, CloudLabs supports VM access over HTTPS enabling users to access their lab VMs through any browser of their choice.

2022
Cloudlabs VM agent(Upcoming)

For lab durations extending up to hours, the upcoming CloudLabs VM agent will trigger notifications when VMs are idle for more than 10 minutes to save resources. It will help shut down labs when not in use, enable notifications, and optimize costs.

June (upcoming product update) 2022
Credit Split across the required course duration.

Instructors can split credit limits for students over the course of semesters to ensure a smooth transition of resources from semester to semester and avoid undue overuse.

June 2022
Data+ AI Summit 2022

Databricks hosted a large Data + AI summit in collaboration with CloudLabs over a span of 4 days. CloudLabs provided multiple labs across thousands of attendees in the summit for technical sessions, hands-on training and workshops, etc. With CloudLabs Databricks managed to conduct massive lab deployments at scale with a seamless user experience, hands-on training and instant support.

June 2022
Spektra Systems Successfully Completes SOC 2 Type II Certification and GDPR Readiness

SOC 2  requires companies to establish and follow strict information security policies and procedures, encompassing the security, availability, and confidentiality of all customer data. There were more than 90 control points defined for which Spektra provided all the required evidence and specimens successfully completing the audit and receiving the Compliance Status Report from the auditors.

May 2022
Spektra Systems has earned the Windows Server and SQL Server Migration to Microsoft Azure Advanced Specialization
Windows Server and SQL Server Migration Press release

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This is yet another milestone achieved by Spektra Systems, demonstrating the years of experience and expertise it has gained in successfully migrating client workloads to Azure. Alongside Windows and SQL server migration, ISVs, organizations and educational Institutions can leverage CloudLabs to migrate their lab infrastructure to Cloud and benefit from Azure on-demand labs provisioning. and benefit from Azure on-demand labs provisioning.

April 2022
CloudLabs’ provision of virtual training labs to JFrog for a training workshop on Google Cloud.
Jgrof

JFrog is a popular name in DevOps solutions, offering a reliable platform for managing binaries from developer to production. As it hosts training workshops regularly to educate on JFrog technologies and their integration with cloud computing platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP. It recently collaborated with CloudLabs to provision virtual labs for one such workshop.

March 2022
AWS Resource Cleanup

CloudLabs is currently providing a number of AWS resources for VMs, and many more are to be added shortly. Meanwhile, users can enjoy efficient clean-up of resources after lab termination.

February 2022
The all-new Optimized disc cost feature with SKU alteration depending upon VM status.
CloudLabs’ primary focus is to enable efficient usage of resources that generate minimum billables.With this new feature, CloudLabs generates an automated process wherein SKU alters between Premium SSD and Standard SSD upon stopping and restarting VMs.This ensures saving resources when labs are idle or not in use and help you optimize your cloud spend.
January 2022
Cloudlabs has enabled Credit based allocation for effective resource consumption

Credit based allocation is a new feature that helps instructors/students to track their credit consumption. Once the admin/instructor assigns a certain credit limit for students, Cloudlabs will send timely notifications based on consumption to instructors and students. Instructors can decide credit thresholds which is the percentage of resource consumption based on which notifications will be triggered.

November 2021
CloudLabs Releases New Dasboard

CloudLabs has released a new feature, an update though aimed at our long-term partner Databricks but serving all our clients and users. With this update, instructors can now access all information from their Dashboards at one place.

November 2021
FSI Hack
CloudLabs ReCloudLabs hosted FSI Hack, a learning experience for Insurance, Banking, and capital Market Customers.leases New Dasboard

Out of a series of business use cases from Call-Centre Intelligence, Insurance Claims Automation, Fraud and Compliance Analytics,Automated Document Ingestion and Risk Classification with Loan Modeling, attendees can register for any one and learn with a team of Microsoft’s expert Cloud Architects and  industry specialists for financial services business use cases. 

October 2021
Databricks hosted world’s biggest Data + AI summit with on demand labs powered by Cloudlabs

Databricks is a leading Data+AI company that provide a unified platform for Data and AI by combining Data Lakes and Data warehouses. It hosted world’s biggest virtual summit in collaboration with CloudLabs to provide training to 7000+ attendees. With CLoudlabs Databricks managed to provide   a seamless experience and gained a deep insight into cloud spend and user participation post the event.

24 September 2021
Hack4Equity:Health Equity for Georgia’s Black Mothers
The event is focused on driving innovative solutions for improved individual healthcare and reducing racial disparity in Health Systems, sponsored by Microsoft in collaboration with Cloudlabs.As maternal mortality rate was on rise in the USA, black women significantly affected being 3-4 times more likely than white women to face death, this hackathon was organized to bring equitable healthcare solutions for women of all race.
16 September 2021
CloudLabs is the Gold Sponsor for PDC Conference 2021

CloudLabs sponsored Asia's biggest PowerShell Conference – PDC Conference  2021, hosted by Microsoft and Tecoholic

24 June 2021
CloudLabs hosted MCW-Machine Learning Workshop in collaboration with Microsoft.

This event aims at developing attendees’ machine learning skills by training students on  combining Azure Databricks with Azure Machine Learning to build, deploy, and train machine learning and deep learning models. With this workshop you’ll be able to train a forecasting model against time series data, without any code by automated machine learning.

14 May 2021
Nurse Hack4Health: Virtual Hackathon by Microsoft in collaboration with CloudLabs

A free virtual hackathon inspired by present day challenges related to the Heathcare Industry.

With this event, nurses, healthcare professionals, developers, engineers, IT experts, and individuals with diverse ideas and skill-set can come together and collaborate to develop develop tech-based, minimally viable products (MVPs) that can help address today’s most pressing healthcare challenges.

23 March 2021
Spektra Systems launches Saasify platform for ISVs

Saasify is a major leap in the ISV marketplace. A unified platform that enables ISVs to simultaneously sell, manage and grow SaaS (Software as a Service) services through multiple cloud platforms like AWS, Azure and GCP within just one week.

6 January 2021
Spektra Systems Passes WVD Advanced Specialization External Audit

Spektra systems successfully completed an external third-party audit to qualify for Microsoft Advanced Specialization for Windows Virtual Desktop. This is an honorary achievement that demonstrates a partner’s deep knowledge, experience, and expertise in deploying, scaling,and securing virtual desktop infrastructure on Azure.