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I had a demo of it last week following on from seeing it at BETT. Full release I believe is due to be around May time, it looked to have the potential to be a decent product. The classroom management element of it though appeared much more basic than the full version of Impero Pro, so whilst would likely be fine for teachers to see what students were up to in lessons, it lacked the more full feature set that possible an IT team might like. From what I've seen this is similar with a lot of the products now, as they try to tick all the boxes of filtering, safeguarding, monitoring, altering and classroom management.

I had a look at BETT and thought it looked reasonable, certainly a big step up from the old Impero cloud offering. However it’s not likely to be ready for release until May time so you’d imagine it’ll be another 6 months at least until any bugs and issues are properly ironed out. We’re currently looking into all our filtering & monitoring options but there doesn’t seem to be one standout platform & reading the numerous threads here there’s some real tales of woe from people for just about all options which makes the decision even more difficult!

I've not been in position long at my current role but the teacher was frustrated with how things previously worked and found things too restrictive and couldn't run a large amount of the software he wanted to. We've put a lot of this right for him but I'm now being asked to provide access to command prompt, control panel among others, all things that normally wouldn't be allowed in the environment, and open the computers up further than I would like to. The thinking behind the cloud based lab was rather than just saying a flat no to his requests, was to provide an environment completely restriction free, possibly running some form of Linux rather than Windows that will never be able to get onto our network. We only have A Level classes of 9 or 10 so it may be a relatively cheap solution. I've never been asked to provide access at this level in any of my previous schools for Computer Science courses and they have always run fine with the staff happy. @AliG - How do you find Cloud 9 works? Do you use if for a similar purpose as described?

Hi All, Has anyone had any experience in setting up a cloud based environment for Computer Science or any other purpose? Our Computer Science teacher is wanting student restrictions to be relaxed which I'm not keen to deploy so I'm looking into the possibility of creating him cloud based VMs that are totally isolated and can be run without worrying about restrictions etc. I've been looking at Google Cloud Platform or AWS as possibilities, does anyone have any experience of doing something similar? Any advice would be great, Thanks.

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Out of interest what models/specs/numbers did you go for?

@FN-GM, Have you made any decisions yet? I'm quite interested in something similar to replace an ageing SAN & two host VM Ware setup.

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I've been using this for a month or so and am very impressed. I'm having issues though getting it to work through a Proxy PAC file, it works fine with the manual proxy settings but throws a proxy error up when I try to use the PAC file. Anyone had similar issues?

Has anyone used the Ubiquiti own SFP+ modules? They are quite a bit cheaper than the Mikrotik ones.

Thanks all. Out of interest which SFP+ modules have you been using? I've currently been quoted MiktroTik.

Thanks for all your responses, very helpful. I'm going to look at ordering some in to test them. @whitte what sort of issues have you experienced using DAC cables?

Would be looking at the EdgeSwitch - a mixture of the PoE & non PoE Edge/Lite switches & potentially a couple of the 16 port 10GB Aggregation switches.

After a conversation with @mrbios I'm now seriously considering moving to Ubiquiti Switches & was just after any feedback from others using them & if anyone had any major issues with failures etc? We are looking at implementing a whole new infrastructure with new fibres & expanding to a 10G backbone, replacing some extremely old HP kit. The prices I've been quoted are on a different level to anything else I've received and would really free up some money for other projects. Is anyone using these switches as their core or just for edge purposes? Thanks