BlueBridge and Platform Lab Sign Alliance

BlueBrige Networks, LLC. ("BlueBridge" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that on July 1st, 2004, the Company and Platform Lab of Columbus, OH, agreed to an industry significant alliance.

(PRWEB) July 19, 2004 -- BlueBrige Networks, LLC. ("BlueBridge" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that on July 1st, 2004, the Company and Platform Lab of Columbus, OH, agreed to an industry significant alliance. The alliance offers a solution to the rampant business need of expert disaster recovery plan validation combined with high-availability collocation and hot-site management.

I am thrilled that Platform Lab and BlueBridge Networks have agreed to partner," said Steve Gruetter, Business Development Director of Platform Lab, We have created a unique offering for testing and validating disaster recovery solutions to corporate America as well as for the small and medium sized business owner."

We listened to the marketplace and delivered a one-stop solution for disaster recovery/business continuity needs," commented Neil J. Adelman -- Chief Executive Officer of BlueBridge Networks.

The formal alliance allows Platform Lab to offer BlueBridge clients the ability to test a disaster recovery plan by utilizing the resources available at Platform Lab at a low cost-recovery rate. Once the testing is complete, BlueBridge Networks can deliver the high-availability collocation and hot-site management that is necessary to make the disaster recovery/business continuity testing truly effective.

Mr. Adelman noted, Currently, testing any disaster recovery/business continuity plan -- which is mission critical to companies -- is expensive and really only half of the solution. You need a secure, independent environment which can support and protect your disaster recovery/business continuity plan."

Few, if any, of the disaster recovery/business continuity service offerings are this comprehensive and competitively priced," offered Mr. Gruetter.

Finally, a real solution for a difficult and timely problem confronting the IT staffs of all companies," adds Daniel DeSantis -- Chief Technology Officer of BlueBridge, Better yet - we are both companies located in the State of Ohio and are very supportive of the technology environment within the state."

Platform Lab is a self-supported, non-profit IT testing and training facility that provides Ohio firms with a competitive advantage by offering utilization of hardware, software, space and high-speed bandwidth on demand and at an exceptionally low rate. Their mission is to make organizations in the Ohio IT sector operate more efficiently. Numerous firms are taking advantage of this resource to conduct disaster recovery plan validation, load and stress testing, training, proof-of-concept testing, quality assurance testing and vendor evaluation on mainframe and distributed systems. Platform Lab operates as a partnership between the Ohio Supercomputer Center at the Ohio State University and the Business Technology Center of Columbus, OH.

BlueBridge Networks is a leading provider of high availability collocation, dedicated Internet access, managed security services and disaster recovery. The Company, headquartered in Cleveland, OH, owns and operates a 20,000 sq. ft. carrier-class Internet data center.

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