Dec 20, 2017

CloudShare’s Training, Sales Enablement and Sandboxing Solutions Shortlisted for 2017-18 Cloud Awards Program

International Cloud Computing Program Announces Shortlist

San Francisco – 20 December 2017 – CloudShare, a specialty cloud provider that helps software companies replicate complex on-premises IT environments in the cloud for training, PoCs, and sandboxing for support and testing, is a finalist in the 2017-2018 Cloud Awards Program in the Best Cloud Infrastructure category.

The cloud computing awards program celebrates excellence and innovation in the rapid-growth cloud computing market. The awarding body accepts applications worldwide, covering the US, Canada, Australasia and EMEA. Organizations of any size are accepted for consideration in the program, including those from governmental bodies, start-ups and established multinationals.
Finalists were selected by a judging panel of international industry experts.

Michal Frenkel, Director of Product at CloudShare said: “Being shortlisted in the Cloud Awards in the Best Cloud Infrastructure category is another validation of CloudShare’s dedication to excellence, innovation, and customer success. We are pleased to add this recognition to our growing list of achievements.”

Cloud Awards organizer Larry Johnson said: “Again, we have seen an overwhelming level of engagement from organizations of all sizes, each showing their commitment to cloud-based technologies and leveraging them in their own unique way.”

Over 300 organizations entered, with entries coming from across the globe, covering the Americas, Australia, Europe and the Middle East. You can view the full shortlist here: https://www.cloud-awards.com/2018-shortlist.

Final winners will be announced on Tuesday, 30 January 2018.

About the Cloud Awards

The Cloud Awards is an international program which has been recognizing and honoring industry leaders, innovators and organizational transformation in cloud computing. The awards are open to large, small, established and start-up organizations from across the entire globe, with an aim to find and celebrate the pioneers who will shape the future of the Cloud as we move into 2018 and beyond. Finalists were selected by a judging panel of international industry experts. For more information about the Cloud Awards please visit http://www.cloud-awards.com/.

About CloudShare

CloudShare helps software organizations grow revenue, increase efficiency and improve the customer experience by making it easy to replicate complex on-premises IT environments in the cloud, with specialized solutions for training, PoCs, and sandboxing for support and testing.

CloudShare customers include many leading software and cybersecurity companies, such as Palo Alto Networks, Atlassian, ForgeRock, Sophos, Dell and HP. To learn more, visit staging.cloudshare.com

  • " With CloudShare, we have scaled the business without having to give another thought to the platform we’re running on. "

    Kevin Streater - ForgeRock
    VP ForgeRock University

  • " CloudShare provides Check Point’s global pre-sales community with a cloud-based system to deliver engaging product demonstrations to our customers and partners. The system enables our sales engineers to demonstrate how the full set of Check Point’s Gen V technologies operate in multiple use cases – network, cloud, endpoint and mobile – with nothing more than a simple laptop and Internet connection. "

    Avi Rembaum - Check Point Software Technologies
    VP Security Solutions

  • " A few years ago... there was no training because we didn't have the infrastructure available. We now have over 4,000 environments set up during the last year and over 21,000 hours of run time so the scale is unbelievable and we just see this growing. "

    Viggy Book - Tufin Technologies
    Director of Training

  • " We started using CloudShare for our dev environments, and now we use them for our QA labs as well. We have all the resources we need – whenever we need them. "

    Amit Lohogaonkar - Alliance Life Sciences
    Lead Architect

  • " We spin up environments on CloudShare to perform regression and ongoing tests. With the API, we’ve been able to automate much of what we used to do manually. "

    Steve Rice - Smart Logic
    Senior Technical Consultant

  • " With CloudShare, we spin up ready-made templates in minutes. We are able to meet our customers’ needs more efficiently and we’ve cut our troubleshooting time by over 20%. "

    Avi Karnon - MuleSoft
    VP Global Support

  • " We can now confidently use an environment that stimulates a company with multiple sites, multiple separate networks at each site, and redundant internet connections. "

    Robert Lillywhite - Sophos
    Global Technical Enablement Manager

  • " The fact that students can access their environments during instructor-led training and on their own, has made for an effective learning experience for students and educators. "

    Shaundra Bruvall - InnoTech College
    Program Delivery Coordinator

  • " We passionately believe that practical hands-on experience is vital to aiding understanding and retention of the material by learners. I would go as far as to say that the vast majority of learners taking technical training require practical hands-on activities to form a cler understanding of a topic. "

    Robert Lillywhite - Sophos
    Global Technical Enablement Manager

  • " CloudShare is a game changer when it comes to saving time and overhead costs for class setup. I have one central administrator account from which I can add users and take care of any issue, as well as get usage reports for any student. "

    Shaundra Bruvall - InnoTech College
    Program Delivery Coordinator

  • " As we continue to move more and more to the cloud, it’s partnering with innovative companies like CloudShare that will get us where we need to go. "

    Alan Boehme - Innovation P&G
    Global Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Information Technology

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