BWI: Blue Star Infotech and Platform Lab Form Strategic Partnership to Deliver Cloud Testing Services

Press release from Business Wire India
Source: Blue Star Infotech Ltd
Tuesday, October 06, 2009 02:32 PM IST (09:02 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Environment; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Business services, Information technology; Technology
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Blue Star Infotech and Platform Lab Form Strategic Partnership to Deliver Cloud Testing Services


Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Tuesday, October 06, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- Blue Star Infotech, a leading provider of IT Services to enterprises globally, announced a strategic partnership with Platform Lab, a provider of IT test and training facilities for the explicit purpose of IT testing, development and projects. This partnership will enable Blue Star Infotech to expand its existing 'Testing as a Service' offering with a cloud testing capability. Blue Star Infotech will leverage Platform Lab's On-Demand infrastructure to provide its clients with a turnkey cloud testing service that will reduce their capital expenditure and increase ROI.

This 'test on demand' model will provide Blue Star Infotech's clients with an unmatched competitive advantage in the area of cost, time & reliability. Blue Star Infotech's clients will be able to use this cloud testing service on a pay-per-use basis directly from Blue Star Infotech. At the same time, Platform Lab's clients will also be able to use the expert testing services of Blue Star Infotech, and leverage its global delivery model. Availability of all standard hardware, software, test automation tools, and bandwidth ensures that almost all types of applications can be tested for optimal performances and throughput with real life scenarios.

According to Suresh Iyer, Vice President - Marketing, Blue Star Infotech: "Our testing capability, in conjunction with Platform Lab's test infrastructure, enables us to significantly enhance our value proposition to our clients. We are confident that this partnership will help our customers in comprehensively assuring the quality of their software applications with minimal investments."

"Platform Lab is very excited about a partnership with Blue Star Infotech. Blue Star Infotech is well known across the globe for their broad expertise and capabilities with numerous IT test protocols; Platform Lab looks forward to offering this capability to our clients as well as augmenting Blue Star Infotech infrastructure with our on-demand hardware and considerable bandwidth resources. We view this partnership as a competitive advantage for both of our client bases" said Steve Gruetter, Director, Platform Lab.

About Blue Star Infotech

Part of the US $650 million Blue Star Group, Blue Star Infotech Ltd. enables enterprises and technology companies to realize their business vision - by enabling them to eliminate operational inefficiencies and internal constraints through innovative business models and collaborative approaches. Blue Star Infotech serves its global clientele through offices in Santa Clara (CA) and Jersey City (NJ) in North America, London in UK, Helsinki in Finland and Tokyo in Japan. The Company also has business associates in USA and Europe.

About Platform Lab

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 primarily for IT performance testing and related 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.


CONTACT DETAILS
Payal Jaiswal, Corporate Marketing, Blue Star Infotech Ltd, +91 (22) 6688 6969, globalhq@bsil.com

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