Management and Distribution of Virtual Laboratories for Researchers and Students
Tomasz Siemek, Action Education Centre (Poland)
Michal Karski, Action Education Centre (Poland)
Abstract
During this session you will get know with unique solution for management and distribution of virtual laboratories – CloudLabs, which are designed for researchers and students. You should join this session if you ever wanted to prepare a private lab environment to deliver a training or a class, or maybe you if you ever needed to share a test environment before launching a new product. Probably you spent a lot of time on preparation, even if you used some scripts to make it easier. At the same time you needed to remember that the prepared user environment available locally and throughout the access period, and you want to use your valuable assets, such as PCs in the classrooms. Many things to, huh? We were in the same place at our Education Center, so that’s the main reason why we create CloudLabs and why we want to share it with you. With CloudLabs you can automatically deploy and distribute hundreds of predefined lab environments, which are available 24/7, to users within minutes. Students and teachers can use the courses and perform laboratories from any computer, which is connected to the network. Despite providing classes for students you can use CloudLabs for conducting scientific research involving the university infrastructure as well as SaaS model with using the infrastructure of the supplier.