INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Cloud
iland launches cloud-
based LabEngine
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land, an award-winning global cloud
service provider of secure and compliant
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS),
Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS)
and cloud backup services (BaaS), has
announced the availability of iland
LabEngine. The new service is available from
iland’s US, UK, Netherlands, Australia and
Singapore cloud data centres.
iland LabEngine enables organisations
to rapidly deploy and scale cloud-based
environments for training, demos and sales
enablement. Until now, building a virtual
training environment was expensive and
time-consuming. Demo labs were costly
and underutilised and proof-of-concepts
required heavy investment in time from
the customer. With on-demand virtual labs
powered by LabEngine, companies can
deliver high-quality content in an easy-to-
manage, highly-scalable, cost-effective and
reliable environment.
“At Nimble Storage, a Hewlett Packard
Enterprise Company, we are always looking
for innovative ways to enable our internal
and channel engineering teams to train and
demo our technologies, including InfoSight
Predictive Analytics. We partnered with
iland to provide a scalable, on-demand,
cloud-based training platform to support our
global sales engineering training. This has
let our team focus on delivering the highest
quality content without worrying about the
infrastructure needed to support it,” said
Randy Hopkins, Vice President of Nimble
Storage Systems Engineering. “Based on the
success we’ve already seen with LabEngine,
we plan to use it to power our proof-of-
concept lab, which we expect will optimise
and compress our sales process.”
iland LabEngine enables users to create
elaborate environments including nested
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hypervisors, complex networking and
multiple virtual machines. Customers can
easily migrate existing virtual machines or
quickly create new ones in the iland platform
and develop lab templates to save and
deploy at scale.
Through a simple user interface, these
environments can be scheduled for remote
access for internal or external customers to
access exact copies of these environments.
Lab owners can provision environments
on demand, tying into the iland Secure
Cloud Console. The iland LabEngine is a
cost-effective, scalable and agile solution
organisations can use to deliver content
to consumers, instead of worrying about
infrastructure. Pay-as-you-go pricing and rapid
scale means these environments can be used
when needed, without fixed capital overhead.
“At our global conference, VeeamON 2017,
iland powered the Hands-on Labs which
allowed our customers to gain a deeper
understanding of our entire product portfolio
and learn how to utilise Veeam to its fullest,”
said Scott Lillis, Vice President, Systems
Engineering at Veeam Software, North
America. “By utilising iland LabEngine, we
provided high-performing, scalable, hands-
on labs built to withstand the demands of
a full tradeshow like VeeamON. It enabled
us to deliver top-notch instruction to our
customers throughout the entire event.”
“Organisations that provide software or
virtual appliances are often challenged in
orchestrating proof of concepts and free
trials. Proof of concepts can be costly and
time-consuming, while free trials may be a
lacklustre experience for the customer without
enough data to see the real benefits of the
product,” said Dante Orsini, iland Senior Vice
President of Business Development. “With
iland LabEngine, organisations can quickly
and cost-effectively deploy a completely
controlled, data-rich test environment
streamlining their sales process and
dramatically improving the effectiveness of
their demos and proofs of concept.” n
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