Opened doors for business, located in Historic Boot Mills, Lowell, MA
Signed contract with Sun Microsystems as an authorized Sun Professional Services Partner
Established Systems, Storage and Security practices, securing authorization as a Sun Reseller
Appointed to the Arrow/MOCA Business Advisory Board
Technology Milestones: Cisco celebrates 10 years in business with revenue exceeding $2.2 billion; Alta Vista search engine is born, vying for popularity with Magellan, Excite, InfoSeek, and Northern Light.
Photo: Historic Boot Mills, Lowell, MA
Company Achievements 1996/1997
Expanded product line, securing authorization as a Reseller for Veritas, StorageWorks, and Oracle
Delivered our first major professional services engagement—developed and deployed a secure, Internet-based on-line banking system for the largest retail bank in the northeast
Commenced what has become an annual company-wide clothing, basics, and food drive in support of Lazarus House Good Shepherd Center
Technology Milestones: Sun licenses Java, announced one year earlier, to all major hardware and software manufactures; the first successful and affordable Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), including Palm Pilot, become available to consumers.
Photo: First major professional services deployment
Company Achievements 1998/1999
Selected to architect and implement a $12-million genomics data center–—one of the first multi -TB database environments
Doubled our space and moved to new offices in Burlington, Massachusetts
Launched our Managed Services practice, developing monitoring platform with transaction integrity; built our NOC
Deployed our first Oracle Parallel Server (OPS) and Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) in one of the largest prepaid mobile phone companies in the United States.
Technology Milestones: VMware is founded, with technology that separates the operating system and application software from the underlying hardware; Classmates.com enjoys initial success in the adolescence of Social Networking.
Photo: Implementation of a $12-million genomics data center
Company Achievements 2000/2001
Expanded geographic footprint by creating Metro NYC region
Established Web Application Development practice, delivering one of the first Web-based knowledge sites (ExpertCentral.com, later sold to Ask.com)
Received the Oracle Technology Achievement Award
Named to the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing private companies, at rank #174
Expanded Storage practice , securing authorization as Network Appliance Reseller
Technology Milestones: Symantec joins the NASDAQ 100 index and tops the list of the leading 25 security software vendors; Apple launches the iPod, creating a new market for wearable computing—portable audio.
Photo: Opened NYC Metro Office
Company Achievements 2002/2003
Relocated corporate headquarters, again doubling space, to accommodate growth in professional service practices
Built a state-of-the-art $1 million Technology Integration Lab and solution development center
Successfully navigated the dot com downturn, retaining full staff and positioning the company for future growth
Technology Milestones: Hewlett-Packard merges with Compaq, forming the second-largest IT company on earth; production of transistors reaches a quintillion—a trillion million—while the average cost was a mere 191 nanodollars (191-billionths of a dollar).
Photo: Technology Integration Lab
Company Achievements 2004/2005
Launched Business Intelligence practice—with competencies in Analytics, Reporting, Data Warehouses, and Data Quality—by becoming an authorized Business Objects Partner
Launched our first market research study based upon comprehensive user surveys, by publishing Data Storage Outlook 2004, which benchmarked best practices for Storage
Expanded our Metro region to include New York and New Jersey, by opening a regional headquarters in Cranford, New Jersey
Named to NetApp, Business Objects, and F5 Advisory Boards
Technology Milestones: The storage management market reaches $5.6 billion, lead by EMC, Veritas, and IBM; SPAM is estimated to take up more than 33% of email traffic and increasing asymptotically.
Photo: Launched Business Intelligence Practice
Company Achievements 2006/2007
Launched Virtual Warehouse, which provided two-day deliver of Sun systems to participating customers
Established CTI Staffing Services, providing highly qualified staff augmentation to IT departments
Donated time and materials at a local Habitat for Humanity affiliate in one of Boston’s poorest neighborhoods.
Managed the first Red Hat Linux/Oracle 10g RAC implementation in the U.S., for a leading provider of web-based applications that automate management and reservations for the meetings and convention industry.
Technology Milestones: SAP announces $6.8 billion deal to acquire Business Objects; VoIP attains critical mass with Vonage reaching over 2.2 million subscriber lines.
Photo: Habitat for Humanity
Company Achievements 2008/2009
Launched IT Strategy practice, headed by our top two technologists—Peter Galvin, CTO Architecture, and Jesse St. Laurent, CTO IT Strategy
Expanded proprietary market research studies—Data Storage Outlook (2nd edition), Virtualization Outlook, and Business Intelligence Outlook
Doubled Business Intelligence practice revenue
Named Sun Microsystems North American Partner of the Year
Technology Milestones: Oracle enters the hardware market by purchasing Sun Microsystems; Google celebrates 10 years in business as top worldwide search engine, counting 1 trillion unique URLs, and growing by billions of pages daily.
