Cloud Computing

The mission of Platform Lab is to provide IT test infrastructure resources at non-profit rates and allow our clients to gain a competitive advantage by conducting thorough testing at minimal investment.

The Platform Lab Cloud will provide Platform Lab clients the ability to conduct numerous types of IT testing at tremendous value. Lab clients may utilize a VM of one 3.0 GHz Intel core, 2 GB RAM and 200 GB disk for $50/week with flexible pricing models available for all types of tests and projects.

Utilize Cloud computing resources in a controlled test environment

• Validate cloud applications without risk.
• Conduct scalability testing with minimum investment.
• Utilize development and test environments on-demand.
• Flexible daily and weekly pricing.
• Practice VM failover for applications that require high availability.
• Validate existing applications in a cloud environment.
• Demonstrate capabilities of VMware vSphere and Microsoft HyperV in an independent lab.
• Physical or remote access available on-demand.
• Private test lab environment allows for greater client control.

The Platform Lab Cloud provides the best value in the industry for IT testing

• Available to any firm, anywhere, nearly anytime.
• Allocation of a complete test environment in minutes.
• Reduction of cost of hardware and setup for our clients.
• Provide scalability of IT test resources on-demand.
• Offer VMware vSphere and Microsoft HyperV for demonstration purposes.
• Combine with our flexible capability for optimum Web Load Test resource.
• Unique test 'Infrastructure as a Service. 

Cloud capabilities

The initial Platform Lab Cloud offering will be one of the larger clouds in the region with 168 3.0 GHz Intel cores, 408 GB RAM and 19.5 TB disk with over a dozen separate network connections and is expected to grow significantly. The Platform Lab Cloud is combined with our 1 Gb bandwidth on-demand capability to provide the best web load test infrastructure offering in the nation.

Operating systems and applications offered initially will be:

• All Microsoft operating systems and database applications.
• Numerous Linux operations systems.
• Several load test software options including HP LoadRunner, NEOload and Paessler.
• Leading VM applications Vizioncore and VEEAM.
• New applications and capabilities will be added based on client demand.

For more information on how to take advantage of the Platform Lab Cloud, please contact Platform Lab at 614-675-3711 or info@platformlab.org