Happy to get back to Cloudhouse Wonder Wednesdays!
Before the pandemic, we held regular Cloudhouse ‘Wonder Wednesdays’, where we took a half day for an activity or experience and a social event. Our Office Assistant, Adrianna, scouts the best options before putting them to the team for a vote.
Some of the activities require working collaboratively, some pitch teams against each other, and some are purely for fun! They are a great way to let off some steam and spend time together away from our desks.
Favourite activities so far have included archery tag, cracking the Crystal Maze, an adrenaline filled speed boat ride up the Thames, and racing at Thruxton:
We also had a party on a boat on the Thames, an amazing way to experience London from a different point of view, reminding us how lucky we are to work in such an amazing city:
After a long pause due to coronavirus restriction, it was great to be able to finally be able to get back out last month for a game of Monopoly Lifesized! Played on a 15mx15m board, we had great fun solving challenges and competing against the clock:
We’re always on the lookout for new experiences to try in and around London, so if you have any recommendations, let us know!
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Commercials
Cloudhouse costs are split into two elements – the licensing required to deploy application compatibility packages, and the professional services needed to create the application compatibility packages.
Licensing is offered on a per user basis for desktop applications and a per server basis for server applications. There are discounts available based on volumes.
Professional Services costs are dependent on the nature and complexity of the application. We quote a cost for packaging once we have been able to see the application, or portfolio of applications.
Contact us here with your requirements and we will provide you with a quote.
Packaging and Maintaining Applications
Cloudhouse provide the Professional Services to package applications.
Cloudhouse recommend packaged applications are tested in the standard UAT environments used for natively installed applications, or applications packaged in App-V. The more representative the test environment is of the live environment, the greater the chance of finding any issues prior to go-live.
Service packs and updates can be applied to the applications in a package using the Editor, refer to Updating, Editing and Maintaining Containers which describes how a new snapshot is created for the update, and how it is then applied to the package.
Operations
Cloudhouse recommends the same team who manage the operations of native apps.
Applications running in Application Compatibility Packages can be deployed, and managed with same tools, or scripts used to deploy natively installed applications e.g. SCCM, InTune, LAN Desk. Please refer to Supported 3rd Party Products and Versions for details.
Support
The Cloudhouse Package does not include OS components, it only contains the packaged application plus Cloudhouse components. Cloudhouse recommend the same team that is responsible for supporting applications packaged with App-V, or delivered as natively installed applications, support Cloudhouse Application Compatibility Containers.
Full documentation is made available to Cloudhouse partners and customers as required.
Training
Cloudhouse offers a full packaging service that can scale to meet any requirement. In the event, however, that a partner wishes to offer application compatibility packaging as part of a wider solution, Cloudhouse will work with that partner. Please contact us here for details.