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Platform Lab provides the best value -- for any company, anywhere -- to conduct IT test projects.

Platform Lab provides a competitive advantage to our clients by offering short term physical or remote access to IT hardware, software and massive bandwidth for all types of companies for the explicit purpose of IT testing and projects.

The value proposition is clear: if access to IT test infrastructure is exceptionally affordable, more companies will test. Robust testing leads to better processes, better people, higher quality applications, fewer mistakes and less waste from under-utilized assets.

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1275 Kinnear Road
Columbus, OH 43212
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7003 Post Road
Dublin, OH 43016
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Cleveland:
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Cleveland, OH 44115
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3035 Moffat Rd
Toledo, OH 43615
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Cincinnati, OH 45202
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Load and Stress Testing

Load and stress testing of website and client/server applications accounts for the largest test segment of Platform Lab clients. Clients from Boston to Atlanta to Seattle utilize Platform Lab to provide the key hardware, software and bandwidth required for all types of load and stress testing.

The primary reasons firms seek out Platform Lab to be their load test resource are:

Massive bandwidth capability -- Platform Lab has Gigabit Internet connectivity at each of our four locations. Clients may request dedicated bandwidth from 1 Mb to over 2 Gb.
Flexibility -- Platform Lab can provide bandwidth for purpose of testing in per Mb per day increments, and client may request varying bandwidth for every day of their test.
Cost effectiveness -- As a non-profit, Platform Lab can allocate the hardware and bandwidth for much less than most any internal or external resource.
Partnerships --Platform Lab has partnerships in place with 14 software firms to provide our clients with the best selection of capabilities and price points of load test testing tools. Load Test tools offered from Platform Lab includes:

Expertise -- Platform Lab is affiliated with over 100 IT consulting firms that can evaluate client needs, offer test strategies and conduct testing.

Beginning 7/1/2009, bandwidth is allocated to clients on a per Mb, per day basis for $3/Mb/day. Bandwidth requests over 100 Mb cost $1/Mb/hour, per client request.

Load testing clients generally engage Platform Lab one of two ways:

1) Drive load from the Lab to the existing (production or beta) website.

This is a very simple and quick set up on behalf of the Lab. The client states how many concurrent users a test will need, the preferred test tool and the length of the test. We create the load test driver environment quickly and setup time is measured in hours, not days.

2) Create the web application or client/server environment at Platform Lab, as well and the infrastructure to drive load against it.

The client will need to specify the exact infrastructure needs to Platform Lab. Often, we will need to work with our vendor partners in order to provide and fulfill client requests.

An advantage of conducting this test at Platform Lab is that the client will often specify a couple different sizes of the target infrastructure in order to build an in-house "right-size". Platform Lab has outstanding relationships with HP, Sun, Cisco, Dell, EqualLogic and several other vendors to arrange for trail evaluations prior to an eventual purchase, pending a successful test.