Company selects The Planets software as a test bed to evaluate the scalability of its products and solutions.

The Planet, a privately held hosting company, today announced that Stone Bond Technologies, a provider of business process and computer system integration solutions, has selected the company as the platform for its software test bed. The company states that  Stone Bond provides customers with software solutions, including integration, workflow automation and messaging software.  In each case, Stone Bond provides solutions that enable organizations to exchange, map, align and clean data across multiple software applications and hardware platforms so that information provides meaningful business data, it adds.

''Our world-class data centers and enterprise-quality network offer the best possible resources for testing new products and solutions,'' said Steve Kahan, vice president of marketing and product management for The Planet.  ''The cost of purchasing servers, software and bandwidth to test enterprise scalability can wreak havoc on budgets. A number of companies have turned to The Planet to create test beds to evaluate the scalability of their products and solutions before they're released. With servers available in just one hour, coupled with the significant cost savings, we expect even more companies like Stone Bond Technologies to take advantage of our capabilities.''

''Customers rely on Stone Bond to deliver enterprise-quality solutions,'' said Stone Bond Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer Pamela Szabo. ''We serve industries that require rationalized critical data from multiple sources to make long-term business decisions.  Before we introduced our newest messaging product, we used the vast resources of The Planet's servers, data centers and network infrastructure to simulate the complexities of a trading room floor, where tens of thousands of messages are exchanged in the course of just a few hours.  We were able to evaluate the performance of our solution across multiple data centers to be certain our customers are getting the results they expect.''