Best Virtual IT Labs in Canada

INE

Invest in INE's world-class IT training and certification prep to give you and your team the ability to meet today’s challenges and prepare for the future. Our training materials are produced entirely in-house by INE instructors who are the most respected and tenured experts in the industry, covering in-demand topics including Networking, Cyber Security, Cloud Computing, and Data Science. In addition, our suite of completely original training material is housed on our proprietary training platform designed to support a practical approach to learning. We develop your expertise through a blended approach of instructor-led videos, learning paths, quizzes, and hands-on exercises. We've helped thousands of professionals achieve their goals and develop successful IT careers.

81 Ratings

Starting Price: $49 per month

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Hack The Box

Hack The Box is the Cyber Performance Center with the mission to provide a human-first platform to create and maintain high-performing cybersecurity individuals and organizations. Hack The Box is the only platform that unites upskilling, workforce development, and the human focus in the cybersecurity industry, and it’s trusted by organizations worldwide for driving their teams to peak performance. Offering an all-in-one environment for continuous growth, assessment, and recruitment, Hack The Box provides solutions for all cybersecurity domains. Launched in 2017, Hack The Box brings together the largest global cybersecurity community of more than 3 million platform members. Rapidly growing its international footprint and reach, Hack The Box is headquartered in the UK, with additional offices in the US, Australia, and Greece.

8 Ratings

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TryHackMe

Learning cyber security on TryHackMe is fun and addictive. Earn points by answering questions, taking on challenges and maintain your hacking streak through short lessons. Learn by following a structured paths and reinforce your skills in a real-world environment by completing guided, objective-based tasks and challenges. TryHackMe goes way beyond textbooks and focuses on fun interactive lessons that make you put theory into practice. You'll get an immersive learning experience with network simulations, intentionally vulnerable technology based on real world examples and more. New to security? No problem! We have learning paths that will teach you the fundamental cyber security skills, which will help set you up to land a job in cyber security. We give you all the tools you need to start learning. Access a machine with the security tools you'll need through the browser, and starting learning from anywhere at any time. All you need is an internet connection!

2 Ratings

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CBT Nuggets

For more than two decades, CBT Nuggets has been a leading provider of on-demand training for IT professionals. Subscribers are able to access training 24/7 on a variety of devices and offline via the CBT Nuggets app. Learners can choose training on the latest technologies from trusted vendors such as Microsoft, Cisco, and Amazon Web Services. Our content library also includes office productivity training that covers tools like Microsoft Office and Google Docs. CBT Nuggets trainers are experts in their fields and bring years of real-world experience to their training. Most CBT Nuggets courses map to IT certification exams, making them an ideal study resource for learners who want to get certified. Our training is broken down into specific skills, so it can also be used as an on-the-job resource. Training admins can assign videos and track progress with our Learner Management features. Provide the training your teams need to do their jobs successfully and confidently with CBT Nuggets.

Starting Price: $59 per user per month

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AppSecEngineer

What’s a true AppSec Engineer if not an expert on all things security? Or a super-specialist in a single domain, you choose. Either way, our training has you covered. Learn new skills with our constantly updated library of courses, become a certified AppSec expert, and make your resume impossible to say no to. All that with a single subscription. Does it feel like security is getting sidelined at your organization? As an AppSec Engineer, you can do something about that. Our courses can help you and your team skill up fast and take your AppSec capabilities to the next level. If your team needs customized training, we do that, too! Our cutting-edge labs are up and running before you can say ‘hands-on learning’. Access our entire library of courses, labs, and learning material with a single purchase. Our courses are tailored to the needs of companies looking to hire security experts.

Starting Price: $49 per user per month

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JBL Cybersecurity

Jones & Bartlett Learning

Since 2010, Jones & Bartlett Learning has been an industry leader in providing engaging virtual lab solutions for cybersecurity education. Our Cloud Labs provide fully immersive mock IT infrastructures with live virtual machines and real software, where students will learn and practice the foundational information security skills they need to excel in their future careers. Unlike simulations, these hands-on virtual labs reproduce the complex challenges of the real world without putting an institution's assets at risk. Available as a standalone lab solution or bundled with our textbooks, Cloud Labs are an essential tool for mastering key course concepts through hands-on training. Automated Lab Reports streamline the lab report process for students and simplify assessment and grading for instructors. Instructor Dashboards provide instructors with live mentoring capabilities and graphical analytics to monitor student progress and time on task.

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Virtual Labs by Appsembler

Appsembler

Skip the hours spent on installation and troubleshooting and jump straight to what’s important – teaching your audiences to use your software with virtual training labs. Take advantage of the efficiency and speed of container technology. With containers, launch virtual training labs in seconds instead of the minutes that virtual machines (VMs) need, drastically reducing your lab costs while improving the audience experience. With virtual training labs, all your audiences need is a browser. No clunky installation or time wasted on things unrelated to learning. Just launch the virtual training environment with the click of a button. Empower your learners to truly engage and achieve mastery of the subject by providing them with real, practical hands-on training environments instead of stale, outdated screenshots. Offer hands-on software experiences to internal and external audiences for better product adoption, brand awareness, and learning outcomes.

Starting Price: $499 per month

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Skillable

Skillable is the virtual labs platform built to adapt quickly in the face of constant change. A three-time Inc. 500 company, Skillable believes validated experiences and challenge-centric learning will transform the way organizations upskill their customers, partners and employees. Industry leaders such as Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, Veritas, Global Knowledge and New Horizons trust Skillable’s full stack lab development and hosting platform, generating nearly 5 million lab launches to date in 2021 and more than 20 million lab launches over its tenure.

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Strigo

Strigo is a trusted software vendor in the customer training industry. Leading software companies use our solutions to gain, retain and expand their customers through education. Our product portfolio includes the following: ------ Virtual labs Cloud-based sandboxes for self-served hands-on learning on any type of software. ------ Virtual classroom Specialized virtual classroom for software training where trainers can view all of the learners' screens and easily collaborate with them. ------ In-app academy An embeddable academy for SaaS products that delivers an engaging, frictionless learning experience right inside the product.

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ITProTV

Give your team the IT skills development platform they need to level up their skills while they enjoy the journey. ITProTV is IT training for teams that's effective and engaging. Prove the ROI of your training spend with the ProPortal. Manage your seats, assign/un-assign team members, and access monthly usage reports. See metrics like logins, viewing time, courses viewed, tracks completed, and more. Manage subsets of users, or teams, by providing them with customized assignments, monitoring progress and reporting on usage of the platform. Assignments can be full courses and/or individual episodes within courses. Choose to download data in a convenient CSV for more advanced reporting needs. Get immediate insight into your team’s viewing patterns and progress over any period of time with visual reports. Dynamic reports are updated weekly, monthly, and quarterly, sign up for email alerts to be notified when reports are ready.

Starting Price: $29 per month

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PentesterLab

We make learning web hacking easier! Our exercises cover everything from basic bugs to advanced vulnerabilities. Not only will we help you learn but you'll also have fun doing it! There's only one way to properly learn web penetration testing: by getting your hands dirty. We teach how to manually find and exploit vulnerabilities. Our exercises are based on common vulnerabilities found in different systems. The issues are not emulated, we provide you with real systems with real vulnerabilities. Our online exercises allow you to obtain certificates of completion. Exercises are grouped into badges that you can complete to get your certificate. It allows you to easily demonstrate your knowledge and skills. With PentesterLab PRO, you can learn when you want, where you want. We provide courses to get you started as well as videos if you get stuck. PentesterLab will get you to the next level.

Starting Price: $19.99 per month

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Nuvepro

Nuvepro Technologies

Who We are? Nuvepro offers a Hands-on Learning Platform for technology learners. What do we offer: Playground Labs: Real-world labs to be used along with ILT/VILT MOOC-based based learning. During this phase of learning, the learners are picking up the concepts. This could be DevOps, FSD concepts, or individual service usage on AWS, Azure, or GCP. Nuvepro provides these playgrounds fully configured. Projects: This phase of learning consists of combining concepts to solve a real-world scenario or problem statement. Examples could be: Setting up a fully functional infrastructure to support a Food Ordering App on AWS, Azure, or GCP Coding a fully functional application for a “Food Ordering App” as part of a Full Stack Development Program These projects can be created by Experts at Nuvepro / partner organizations or Cloud platform vendors (AWS, Azure, or GCP) Assessments: This product is used to evaluate the learning earning of learners.

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KodeKloud

KodeKloud is a free community that provides online hands-on courses and training programs on diverse Cloud and DevOps technologies. Some of the technologies covered by KodeKloud are Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Linux, and more. The community offers online courses (that include a certificate upon completion) alongside hands-on labs, playgrounds, and an online community to connect with other students. KodeKloud has an online forum and a Slack group. Both are excellent places to connect with other people worldwide interested in getting a DevOps role. There are mostly KodeKloud students in both online groups. Additionally, you can find diverse people ranging from beginners to seasoned specialists. It's completely free to get a KodeKloud account. You will get access to all free courses and free hands-on labs. Moreover, free members are also able to try sample lessons of all courses. Besides, KodeKloud offers three additional, paid memberships.

Starting Price: $475/License/Year

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ReadyTech

ReadyTech offers an all-in-one virtual training delivery solution for IT labs, instructor-led, and self-paced training. With ReadyTech instructors and students have access to innovative training features you simply can’t find in generic meeting tools. Our virtual classroom is designed for training and has features you will not find in your typical meeting and collaboration tools. These features include Screen monitoring to follow student activity, multiple communication modes to interact with the class, a small group or one-on-one, activity and engagement monitors, recording with playback during class, help queue, and advanced presentation and timeline management. ReadyTech is the one-stop shop for virtual training solutions.

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CloudShare

CloudShare is the most powerful solution for hands-on software experiences. From sales demos and POCs, to customer and employee training, certification, and testing, our virtual environments are completely customizable and allow the end-user to experiment with your software in a safe environment that mimics their own, thus enabling the most effective experiences. CloudShare’s Business Acceleration platform enables some of the world’s top brands to accelerate their entire customer journey anywhere, in any cloud, anytime (supporting AWS, Azure, GCP). We’re proud to serve leading global software companies such as Palo Alto Networks, RSA, Motorola, Atlassian, SAI Global, Atos, ForgeRock, Dell, Salesforce, and many more.

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Cisco Packet Tracer

Cisco

Get real world experience with this powerful network simulation tool built by Cisco. Practice building simple and complex networks across a variety of devices and extend beyond routers and switches. Create interconnected solutions for smart cities, homes, and enterprises. Use Packet Tracer as a learning environment for instructional courses, distance learning, professional training, work planning or just to have some fun. Enroll, download and start learning valuable tips and best practices for using our innovative, virtual simulation tool, Cisco Packet Tracer. Cisco Packet Tracer is a comprehensive networking technology teaching and learning tool that offers a unique combination of realistic simulation and visualization experiences, assessment, activity authoring capabilities, and multiuser collaboration and competition opportunities. Features of Packet Tracer will help students and teachers collaborate, solve problems, and learn concepts in an engaging and dynamic social environment.

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Heropa

High performing virtual labs for software training and sales. Increase user participation, engagement and retention with Heropa Virtual labs, an essential part of training and selling software. Provide the ideal learning environment with hands-on labs that replicate real world environments. Easy to set up and simple to use, anywhere with an internet connection. Empower sales teams with a tool to run virtual sales demos of complex software configurations. Easily create labs for virtual events, POCs and trials, giving prospective customers hands-on experience with your software. Heropa provides access to environments that simulate production environments, combined with training material, to give learners a hands-on learning experience. Customizable dashboards and detailed analytics offer meaningful insights into user engagement with labs. You only pay for what you use, and scale without limits. We have points of presence globally so performance is guaranteed.

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Azure Lab Services

Microsoft

Easily set up and provide on-demand access to preconfigured virtual machines (VMs) to support your scenarios. Teach a class, train professionals, run a hackathon or a hands-on lab, and more. Simply define your needs and the service will roll the lab out to your audience. Users access all their lab VMs from a single place. Immediate access to VMs for invited users, with no need to share your Azure subscription. Custom templates to quickly provision lab VMs and use repeatedly across labs. Scheduling feature to automatically shut down and start VMs and limit usage hours. Provisioning and scaling to hundreds of VMs with a single click—with the service managing all underlying infrastructure. Invite users to access lab resources right away. When they sign in, they’ll see a full list of VMs they can access across multiple labs. With one click they can connect and start working—no Azure subscription needed. Manage your lab budget with usage control features.

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Microsoft Hands-On Labs

Microsoft

Microsoft Hands-On Labs provides a quick and easy way to evaluate and test Microsoft’s newest products and technologies through virtual environments that do not require any complex setup or installation. You can use virtual labs online immediately for free. The Azure DevOps Server 2019 VM and the corresponding labs are now available on Microsoft Hands-On Labs which means you can try them from a browser or a windows client without having to worry about downloading the entire virtual machine. Hands-on Lab infrastructure is not designed for classroom trainings. There is a concurrency limit for the labs. Should you want to use them in a classroom, please contact the Learning On-Demand team. DevOps brings together people, processes, and technology, automating software delivery to provide continuous value to your users. DevOps automates and speeds software delivery. It makes your process and your products more reliable.

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OrasiLabs

Orasi Software

OrasiLabs efficiently delivers a superior, engaging, virtual hands-on learning experience. OrasiLabs empowers your business to deliver consistent, convenient, and cost-effective training experiences for both instructors and students. Our virtual training labs easily enable a more realistic environment that encourages engagement, increases knowledge retention, and ultimately enlightens students so they are truly prepared for real-world scenarios. Cloud-native, elastic environments with reusable templates. Instructor-led, on-demand, or virtual training support. Scalable platform accommodates organizations of any size. Configurable policies, communication, and delivery to meet business needs. Instructor-friendly Interface for course delivery. Student-friendly set-up and access to hands-on activities. Interaction and collaboration between instructors and students. “Over-the-shoulder” view for instructors to take control of student machines as necessary.

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VLAB Works

ASTC

Simulation is a tool that has been available to developers of embedded devices for many, many years. However, working with the hardware has generally been the preference as the simulator was too slow, too inaccurate or too expensive. VLAB Works has rethought the foundational assumptions of simulation to bring you Virtualization Based Development, a new way of thinking about developing embedded products. VLAB Tools and our suite of Virtual Platforms, put the power and techniques desktop software developers have come to expect from virtualization in your hands to create the embedded products of the future. Imagine a virtual environment that supports an end to end agile process. Where you can define, design, implement, validate, optimize, and support your new embedded product, all of this without hardware, with an automated all-in-software path to product prototyping, simulation, test, measurement, and analysis in all phases of development.

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Pentester Academy

We provide one of the most comprehensive, hands-on and technically challenging courses in the industry. All our courses are beginner-friendly and start from the very basics of the subject. After we cover all important concepts, we gradually introduce the student to more advanced topics. Most of our courses are between 6-12 hours in length to ensure that the student is provided with sufficient depth of knowledge to master the subject. Once you understand how attackers break into networks and systems, then as a defender you know what to check for when pentesting and what defenses you should build. Also, as pentesting is no longer about firing automated tools and sending reports, but rather being able to create new attack scenarios, automate tasks, customize attack tools and exploits, and to be able to hack together custom scripts on the go - our courses focus on task automation.

Starting Price: $69 per month

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Virtual Hacking Labs

Purchase an access plan and get access within 24 hours. Download the courseware and a preconfigured pentesting machine. Study the courseware carefully and get ready to enter the labs to hack your way into 45+ lab machines. Write your report and earn the 2 available VHL certificates of completion (basic & advanced+). Al VHL memberships include access to all aspects of our penetration testing course. This includes access to the courseware, online penetration testing lab, a personal reset panel and the lab dashboard that can be used for hints and progress tracking. The Virtual Hacking Labs are for beginners and experts who want to learn and practice penetration testing in an easy accessible virtual lab environment. For anyone that is new to the subject of penetration testing we provide a tailored courseware manual that covers all subjects from the basics to help you with your first steps towards becoming a penetration tester.

Starting Price: €93 per month

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PortSwigger Web Security Academy

PortSwigger

The Web Security Academy is a strong step toward a career in cybersecurity. Learn anywhere, anytime, with free interactive labs and progress-tracking. Produced by a world-class team - led by the author of The Web Application Hacker's Handbook. The Web Security Academy is a free online training center for web application security. It includes content from PortSwigger's in-house research team, experienced academics, and our founder Dafydd Stuttard. Unlike a textbook, the Academy is constantly updated. It also includes interactive labs where you can put what you learn to the test. If you want to improve your knowledge of hacking, or you'd like to become a bug bounty hunter or pentester, you're in the right place. The Web Security Academy exists to help anyone who wants to learn about web security in a safe and legal manner. You can access everything (for free) and track your progress by creating an account.

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Skytap

Skytap makes it easy to get business critical applications out of the data center and into the public cloud. Skytap is the best cloud service to support AIX, IBM i, and Linux on IBM Power together with x86 workloads. Run your on-premises IBM Power and x86 workloads in their native format on Microsoft Azure or IBM Cloud. Quickly migrate existing workloads directly into Skytap without rewriting or refactoring and start harnessing the benefits of core cloud capabilities, including capacity on-demand, self-service provisioning, and high availability. Our customers use Skytap for running production, disaster recovery, virtual training labs, and development workloads. Skytap is available on Azure and IBM Cloud.

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Quali CloudShell

Quali

None of the bottlenecks, all the best practices. Automate multi-cloud provisioning and deployment, policy-driven compliance and cloud cost management. Torque is a SaaS platform delivering Infrastructure Automation at Scale for complex, application-centric environments on cloud technologies including AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes. IT leaders and DevOps innovators around the world trust Quali to enable self-service automation and governance to streamline application development, testing, and release to production. Seamlessly connect cloud automation, cost control, and security into your platform, and make the power of Environments as a Service accessible to any user through self-service, even if they are not cloud experts. Deliver the infrastructure & application resources your teams need with velocity and control. Give developers on-demand access to the application environments they need through their CI/CD tools, GUI, and CLI.

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Practice Labs

Practice Labs is new kind of IT training company. Our mission is clear, to help 1 million users improve their digital skills by 2023, but we know that learning new skills in IT needs practice, and workplace experience is hard to come by these days. That’s why we empower learners of all abilities with the chance to build their hands-on digital and IT skills using real live IT equipment. We are not a training company, although we help learners reach their career goals with their own hands. We work with industry giants to create practical learning content that is up-to-date and relevant to the needs of the current job market. Our solution consists of live, not simulated, IT Practice Labs aligned with certifications from leading vendors such as CompTIA, Microsoft, Cisco and VMware. We build and deliver skill-based labs too, working with subject matter experts in key topics. We host, maintain and deliver hundreds of pre-configured Labs, each of which house a series of Lab Devices.

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AWS Self-Paced Labs

Amazon Web Services

Get hands-on practice in a live AWS environment with AWS services and real-world cloud scenarios. Follow step-by-step instructions to learn a service, practice a use case, or prepare for AWS Certification. Take a lab to get familiar with an AWS service in as little as 15 minutes. Learning quests lead you through a sequence of labs so that you can learn how to work with related AWS services. When you complete a quest, you'll earn a Quest Badge that you can show off on your resume, website, or LinkedIn profile. Whether you're new to AWS or keeping current with new services, introductory labs are a quick and easy way to learn the fundamentals. Try these popular introductory labs. Take your skills to the next level with fundamental, advanced, and expert level labs. Enroll in a quest - a collection of labs - and master a specific AWS scenario at your own pace. Complete the quest and earn a badge to share on your resume, website, or LinkedIn profile.

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Cloud Customer Certification Lab

Juniper Networks

Our Cloud Customer Certification Lab (Cloud CCL) is a versatile web-based testing platform that emulates your real-life networks, topologies, configurations, and traffic flows. You can reduce your cost and mitigate risk by using Cloud CCL to validate new business services, features, upgrades, and changes before you deploy them on your production network. Instantly build a virtualized model of your production network in a cloud environment. Virtually replicate physical networks comprising virtual devices and testing tools that use the Junos operating system. Automate your test cycle with minimal investment. Cloud CCL is the virtual counterpart to our physical CCL. We recommend that you use Cloud CCL for functional and control plane testing, while our physical CCL is best for testing solutions based on use cases in scaled environments. Cloud CCL supports our vMX Virtual Router, vSRX Virtual Firewall, Junos Space, Juniper Secure Analytics, and leading third-party traffic generators.

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HPE vLabs

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

HPE vLabs provides secure access to remote and onsite hands-on preconfigured and dynamic training solutions. HPE customers, partners and employees learn with vLabs how to gain the most out of their technology investments in a safe and user-centric environment. HPE vLabs supports approximately 300 different courses across 10 technology product lines. We provide this service 24x7x365 to a worldwide audience from several strategically located Asset Centers comprising 25,000 sqft of space. The Virtual Labs Gateway provides remote desktop access to HPE vLabs equipment from any HTML5 capable browser. Should you need any assistance, either for testing your setup or during a class, please feel free to contact our service desk, available non-stop from sunday at 13:00 eastern till friday midnight eastern. If you are an instructor, please refer to the support contact information provided to you by the HPE vLabs team.

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Compare the Top Virtual IT Labs in Canada as of November 2024

What are Virtual IT Labs in Canada?

INE

Hack The Box

TryHackMe

CBT Nuggets

AppSecEngineer

JBL Cybersecurity

Virtual Labs by Appsembler

Skillable

Strigo

ITProTV

PentesterLab

Nuvepro

KodeKloud

ReadyTech

CloudShare

Cisco Packet Tracer

Heropa

Azure Lab Services

Microsoft Hands-On Labs

OrasiLabs

VLAB Works

Pentester Academy

Virtual Hacking Labs

PortSwigger Web Security Academy

Skytap

Quali CloudShell

Practice Labs

AWS Self-Paced Labs

Cloud Customer Certification Lab

HPE vLabs