Dan Kachur
Professor/Coordinator - Cyber Security/Network Security Programs · Sault College“Cloudlabs has given us the opportunity to deliver Microsoft Cloud curriculum to our students at an affordable, controlled cost”
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Dan Kachur
Professor/Coordinator - Cyber Security/Network Security Programs · Sault College“Cloudlabs has given us the opportunity to deliver Microsoft Cloud curriculum to our students at an affordable, controlled cost”
Databricks
“CloudLabs by Spektra Systems was instrumental in our ability to scale our hands-on training to 7000+ trainees. A month before the event, Spektra Systems was able to procure the Cloud VM quota we needed and load-test the environment to ensure we were fully ready to support an event at this scale. On the days of the event, attendees accessed their hands-on environments via the CloudLabs platform and were able to login to a fully configured ready-to-go environment. As the event ended, the Spektra Systems team ensured all cloud resources were cleaned up, helping us to manage our cloud costs for the event. And afterward, they helped us to analyze and gather greater insights into our cloud spend and user participation in the event. We are very thankful for the CloudLabs platform and the excellent team at Spektra Systems for making this event a tremendous success.”
David Trinh
Academic Program Manager · Seneca Polytechnic“We are incredibly pleased with our experience using CloudLabs by Spektra Systems. Their responsiveness and support have been nothing short of outstanding. They have demonstrated remarkable flexibility in accommodating our unique processes and challenges, resulting in a seamless and highly productive collaboration. Thanks to CloudLabs, we have successfully delivered Azure-related courses to a substantial number of students in various programs. Our collective satisfaction with their services has been beyond measure, and we look forward to continuing this fruitful partnership to further grow in the cloud industry in the future.”
Håkan Forsberg
Cloud Solution Architect · Microsoft“CloudLabs has been our go to platform for any hand-on lab experiences when it comes to customer and partner technical trainings and workshops. It eliminates the time and complexity involved in setting up labs and enables smooth experience for our all participants and trainers. The support from the CloudLabs team has been great with rapid response and support which has led to many successful workshops and trainings.”
Tal Ein-Habar
Cloud Security Expert · Check Point“Our company is working with CloudLabs for three years. The service allowed us to train our teams and partners over different products and cloud platforms, by provisioning timely based labs with the smoothed student experience.”
Austin Community College
“It was an amazing experience working with Cloudlabs. They offered fast delivery of managed labs on demand, with pro-configured data science stacks. We were able to provision assignments very easily, and attendee skill evaluation was done flawlessly with the help of their effective grading mechanism. The team at Spektra was quick to understand our requirements and the AWS ML labs were made ready and were pre-configured to be used as intended. This helped us avoid unwanted costs from unintended resource deployment. Onboarding CloudLabs was very fast, and they provided reliable support for every issue we encountered. Thanks to CloudLabs, we could save a considerable amount of time while keeping our budget under control.”
Bryant University
Higher Education Institution · Bryant University“CloudLabs is a reliable and affordable solution for university courses, offering a user-friendly lab environment. Provides a wide range of environments including Big Data Analytics, Deep Learning, NLP, and Data Science. Their rapid response to technical issues ensures a consistently positive experience.”
Coree Mahoney
Azure Program Manager · Microsoft“I partnered with Spektra Systems when I needed to host a large-scale, virtual & customized hackathon in Summer 2020. To further complicate matters, I had an aggressive timeline and nothing more than an idea for the hackathon. When Spektra came onboard to help, they immediately put structure to the event via timelines, deadlines, planning meetings, documentation, and best practices. They also created marketing content, a detailed website and registration process, and they created hackathon teams that utilized all of the participants technical skills. Most importantly, they were staffed with people that were knowledgeable, always available, and enjoyable to work with. Their execution leveraged Microsoft TEAMS and they made it easy for hackers to use chat and teams to work within their pre-defined groups. As you can imagine, the week-long event was an enormous success, and it was all thanks to Spektra Systems and the maximum effort that they put in leading up to the hackathon. They absolutely exceeded my expectations by going above and beyond what was asked of them!”
Microsoft Practice
“On behalf of the entire DXC organizing committee and participants, I would like to extend our heartfelt thanks for your exceptional support and collaboration throughout the Hackathon. Your teams dedication to provisioning the lab environment and ensuring seamless access for all participants played a crucial role in the success of this initiative. From initial setup to resolving technical queries and providing continuous assistance to each group, your responsiveness and commitment were truly commendable. We deeply appreciate the hard work, time, and effort that went into managing the infrastructure, and we are grateful for the professionalism with which your team supported us at every step. Looking forward to continued collaboration in future initiatives.”
Microsoft Practice
“On behalf of the Microsoft Practice at IBM, a heartfelt THANK YOU for your outstanding support in making the IBM Agentic AI Hackathon 2025 a resounding success. Your team went above and beyond to help us resolve infrastructure issues swiftly and effectively, ensuring minimal disruption throughout the event. We truly appreciate the dedication and effort it takes to pull something like this offkudos to you all! Given the success we witnessed this year, I wouldnt be surprised if were back againsame time, next year! Until then, wishing you and your team continued success and all the very best”
Jeff Fatic
Director · HLS Emerging Opportunities“The lab environments provided by Spektra Systems are critical to our NurseHack4Health events. Spektra makes it easy for our hackers and coaches to get access to Azure and Power Platform capabilities!”
Miami University
JupyterLab · Data Science Programs · Miami University“CloudLabs offers a user-friendly, flexible, and cost-effective JupyterLab environment that supports a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses at our university, including Big Data Analytics Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Data Science Capstone. Their rapid response to technical issues ensures a consistently positive experience”
Nina Sui
Sr. Product Marketing Manager · Microsoft“Spektra team, thank you for your exceptional support and service for the numerous workshops and hackathons we planned together. You are knowledgeable, reliable, and overall, really great to work with. I've recommended Spektra to many teams looking for hackathon support, and I've only heard raving reviews of Spektra's support and services. They have subject matter experts for all cloud technology areas, and they are extremely agile and responsive. A great team to work with if you want your project or event to be a success!”
Edinson Salinas
DevOps Engineer“"Excellent Learning Platform" Awesome labs with interesting topics, well guided, really stable platform.”
Nicole O.
“I've worked with CloudLabs for almost two years now, and couldn't imagine working without them. These lab environments save both me and the attendees a TREMENDOUS amount by provisioning, downloading, and organizing resources ahead of our events so we can get right to the important learning steps. The lab guides included are clear and comprehensive with labeled images for every step as well as remediation notes at any potential trouble spots.”
richard crancer
“The BEST lab environment EVER! No competitors. I have experienced the majority of their labs. EXCELLENT content and also EXCEPTIONAL customer service with any issues.”
Stefanos E.
Cloud architect Information Services“CloudLabs experience I enjoyed the fact that the lab provisioning, management and deprovisioning interfaces were very usable and intuitive for the average instructor.”
Verified user
Mid-Market reviewer · Computer Software“A near-perfect platform when deep customization is needed in Hands-on Labs My favorite aspect aboutCloudLabsis the deep customization their team supports. Im an MCT, and many of my clients that I work with, have requirements that are very specific to their business needs. I remember having a tough time finding lab providers for one of my clients who had very specific tech needs. And that is when a friend of mine referred me to CloudLabs. Their team was so co-operative and agreed to all of the Lab requests and built the Lab content+ Lab guide immediately. In less than 2weeks time, I had the show running for my Clients.”
Andreas Wiese Medeiros de Oliveira
Director Consulting Services Cloud and Security bei Fastlane Schweiz“"I need competent partners in my business. CloudLabs is definitely in this group" Using the CL Products is right in balance between precision (to do the job) and simplicity (how to do it)”
Armando Lacerda
Azure Solutions, Data Platform Architect and Senior SQL Server Professional“Great environment to try things out. Easy to work with. Web interface through browser, which helps with most VPN settings. Isolated enviroment.”
Dave Glance
“"Stellar customer service" - The ability to provide hands-on sandbox environments with step-by-step instructions and real-time support is immeasurably helpful.”
Florian E.
Geschäftsführer“"Simple and practical" What do you like best about CloudLabs? I appreciate the comfortable interface, the ease of setting up the test environment, and the ease of use. We use Microsoft Labs and just the simple insertion of Powershell commands into the virtual machines is very convenient. As a coach, I save so much time in troubleshooting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CloudLabs? The administration of the labs as a trainer is unfortunately a bit confusing and the website gives little information on how to become a partner. I would like to see easier access to information here.”
Hamza Oulad Ben Brahim
Ingénieur Système et Infrastructure“Very helpful, professional and rich experience with CloudLabs tutors it was a rich and helpful experience. thanks, I learned a lot.”
Joan Ale
“Good place to learn Easy to use and intuitive interface to access labs”
Oladipupo Coker
“Real-Life Scenarios in browser driven experience. The intuitive interactive UI and the hands-on lab experience”
Priyanka Shastri
Professional Services Consultant“Nice learning platform with great hands-on lab experience. Easy to understand curriculum, hands-on lab experience, quick help from support teams.”
Salamat S.
Senior System Engineer“CloudLabs Easy to use and user friendly, especially i like lab materials”
Verified User
“Seamless Collaboration The Spektra team was exceptionally responsive and offered instant support and guidance throughout the entire process. They were steadfast in helping us understand and solve for internal hurdles.”
Luis E.
“CloudLab is easy to use and setup was really fast.”
Mariusz F.Trainer
Computer Software“Your Labs in Cloud Easy to use via browser, fast enough, buil-in control-c/control-v support”
Martin M
pre-sales, trainer in Slovakia“you can just take it an use it. No special knowledge required to start with CloudLabs, everything well prepared.”
Susanth Satheesh
“The best lab to Learn Azure. The step by step lab guide”