CloudShare and kryterion partner to unite hands-on virtual labs with secure, psychometrically validated certification. New partnership pairs CloudShare's immersive virtual lab environments with Kryterion's exam delivery and proctoring infrastructure. DENVER, CO, UNITED STATES, August 13, 2026 / EINPresswire.com / - CloudShare, the leading virtual IT labs and training enablement platform, today announced a strategic partnership with Kryterion, a Drake International company and global leader in secure exam delivery and psychometric services. The partnership connects CloudShare's hands-on, AI-powered virtual labs with Kryterion's credentialing and proctoring infrastructure, giving certification bodies, enterprises, and training organizations a single, connected path from skills practice to verified, secure assessment. Real expertise comes from practical experience, and, until now, hands-on skills practice and secure exam delivery have largely lived in separate systems. By combining CloudShare's virtual hands-on labs and interactive "play and break" environments with Kryterion's live and AI-assisted online proctoring, global test center network, and psychometric rigor, candidates now have a seamless way to build, test, and prove their skills in real time. This partnership also gives program administrators end-to-end visibility from practice through certification. "Certification only means something if the person holding it can actually do the job," said Ben Jubenville, CEO of CloudShare. "Our partnership with Kryterion closes the gap between practicing a skill and proving it. Candidates build real, hands-on experience in CloudShare's virtual labs, then carry that competency straight into a secure, credible exam delivered by Kryterion. For our customers, that means certification programs that employers can actually trust." "At Kryterion, our focus has always been on protecting the highest level of integrity and validity in the credentialing process," said Dennis Diligent, Vice President of Sales at Kryterion. "Integrating our global testing network and secure delivery platform with CloudShare's immersive labs creates a seamless, end-to-end journey. Together, we are providing training organizations and enterprises with the robust tools they need to build, assess, and securely validate applied technical skills at scale." What the partnership brings together: From CloudShare: Virtual hands-on labs and software replicas, interactive environments, real-time candidate progress and collaboration tracking, and self-paced and instructor-led training workflows. From Kryterion: Test development and psychometric services, live and AI-assisted online proctoring, a global network of more than 1,000 test centers, and a cloud-hosted, scalable test delivery platform. The combined offering is designed for certification bodies, enterprise software and cybersecurity vendors, and sales and L&D enablement teams that need candidates to demonstrate real competency, not just recall, before they earn a credential. About CloudShare CloudShare empowers organizations to deliver hands-on technical training, sales software demonstrations, proof-of-concepts, and customer enablement experiences through immersive, hands-on virtual lab environments. Leading technology companies rely on CloudShare to accelerate learning, improve customer engagement, and scale technical programs globally. Learn more at CloudShare.com and follow World Education News Network on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/cloudshare. About Kryterion Kryterion Inc. is a global leader in innovative testing and credentialing solutions. Designed to help organizations across various sectors develop and manage their assessments with an advanced test development platform and multi-modal delivery solutions. Established in 2001 Kryterion offers secure and integrated services along with extensive support. This empowers candidates to demonstrate skills and achieve success in world class careers. Learn more at kryterion.com and follow World Education News Network on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/kryterioninc. Media Contacts: Kimberly Chambers Director of Marketing, Kryterion [email protected] Abbie Preble Head of Marketing, CloudShare [email protected] Legal Disclaimer: EIN Presswire provides this news content "as is" without warranty of any kind. World Education News Network do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images, videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright issues related to this article, kindly contact the author above.

CloudShare v7 Solis AI release: the next evolution of simulated virtual environments for sales enablement and hands-on training. Abbie preble. Denver, Colorado-(Newsfile Corp. - June 23, 2026) - CloudShare today announced its June platform release, the latest step in the company's mission of helping organizations scale technical Customer education and sales enablement through intelligent experiences that drive real business outcomes. The release spans five areas - AI-powered participant assistance, collaborative cyber lab environments, integrations, visual validation, and infrastructure management - all designed to make it easier to build, run, and deliver complex hands-on lab environments. Each update reflects the growing pressures facing training and sales enablement teams. The recognition that solving for those pressures requires investment in every layer, not just a single capability. "Our customers need to support larger audiences, deliver increasingly sophisticated learning experiences, and scale expertise with the same [or fewer] resources," said Ben Jubenville, CEO of CloudShare. "Whether that's AI-powered assistance, collaborative virtual environments, or workflows that remove friction behind the scenes, these innovations help organizations create more effective experiences while reducing operational complexity." * Solis AI Participant Assistant gives learners always-on support embedded directly in the participant viewer. Solis only pulls answers from materials that have been uploaded by the instructor, and responds to questions in real time. This reduces instructor load and keeps learners engaged, whether they're in a live or self-paced session. * Shared Environments enables multiple participants to connect to a single virtual lab simultaneously, giving instructors the power to dynamically hand off screen control, orchestrate real-time group participation, and guide learners through complex exercises inside a single machine. For cybersecurity, IT, and other complex technical training scenarios, it enables realistic, team-based simulations that aren't possible when every learner is isolated in their own environment. * The Integration Hub consolidates CloudShare's native integrations (including webhooks, LMS connections, SSO, and Slack) that enables low-code automated workflows with thousands of third-party tools - all manageable from a single page. * AI Visual Checks offers an enhanced validation algorithm paired with new in-editor tooling that helps experienced builders capture better reference images. * The Infrastructure Console introduces a redesigned environment management experience with tabbed navigation across networking, VM details, and utilization data, and a clear separation between environment-level and VM-level actions to reduce misconfiguration and speeding up day-to-day operations. Currently in testing, CloudShare will soon release: * An AI Virtual Administrator to help instructors and administrators create CloudShare virtual environments quickly and easily. By turning environment creation into a simple conversation with smart defaults, a clear review step, and explicit confirmation, this innovation will reduce setup time, minimize configuration errors, and provide powerful AI-driven platform management. * Custom AMI Creation will allow customers who run AWS-based labs to capture a live virtual machine's current state and reuse it as the foundation for future environments, directly within the platform to reduce setup time, eliminate manual configuration errors, and ensure every learner or demo participant starts from a clean, consistent baseline. Watch its recent webinar to see these innovations for yourself, and follow CloudShare Ltd. on LinkedIn to stay up-to-date on future CloudShare developments!

Bow River Capital's Software Growth Equity Team (SGE) has made its sixth majority platform investment through the SGE Fund in CloudShare. Morrison Foerster provided advisory services to Bow River Capital for this deal.