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Platform Lab offers a wide variety of hardware, software and operating system options to help create the exact environment that you need to conduct your testing, drills, or classes. We will work with your team to create a stable environment that is available quickly and at a fraction of the cost of setting it up within your own office.

This collection of success stories provides insight into the many ways that businesses can make use of Platform Lab to save time and money on important projects.

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Headquarters:
1275 Kinnear Road
Columbus, OH 43212
614-675-3711 phone
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1255 Euclid Ave 5th floor
Cleveland, OH 44115
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Toledo, OH 43614
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Cincinnati, OH 45202
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How Platform Lab makes positive impact on Ohio's healthcare providers

Disaster Recovery Plan Validation -- the OhioHealth example

Problems

HIPAA mandates that healthcare providers have a proven DR plan as of 4/20/2005.
Hospitals need to trouble-shoot their plans, fail, document and retry
DR is not a part of patient care and not well funded
DR is hard to do, hard to get right, and constantly a moving target

Solutions

Work with Platform Lab to have the necessary resources available
Schedule tests to conduct gap analysis, build off successes, document procedures
Build depth within team to alleviate turnover issues

"Platform Lab is a sure fire way to flush out your scripts and develop innovative ideas in testing our methods of Disaster Recovery." -- Reese Foster, Service Continuity Coordinator, OhioHealth

"Working at a small hospital, we don't have a lot of funding to spend on IT so it was an enormous help to work with the Platform Lab to conduct our disaster recovery drill. Not only were we able to keep costs down but we also had a very successful test because we got the extra benefit of networking with other businesses to adopt best practice along the way." -- Lynn Kellar, Disaster Recovery Coordinator, New Albany Surgical Hospital

Financial Impact - the OhioHealth example:

Platform Lab vs. in-house DR validation

Cost of Hardware Utilized = $131,000

IBM p650 $20,000; 2 IBM p520 = $38,000

IBM RS/6000 $11,000; STK 9940B tape drive = $32,000

2 HP Proliant DL380 $9,000; Cisco 3560G = $6,000

2 StorCase 2 TB arrays = $15,000

Cost of Configuration 20 hours $75/hours = $1,500

Total in-house Cost of Resources = $132,500

Platform Lab vs. validation at remote hotsite

Cost Avoided -- Travel to hotsite = $8,000

Cost Avoided -- Use of hotsite facility 40 hours = $40,000

Opportunity to troubleshoot/document = minimal

Total off-site Cost of DR validation = $48,000

Cost of Platform Lab utilization for 7 day test = $2,750

Total Resource Savings Percentage = 94%-98%