Corporate Timeline
Company Achievements 1994/1995
- 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 Peter Galvin, CTO
- 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.
Photo: Corporate Technologies Headquarters
Company Achievements 2010/2011
- Expanded BI practice to include Data Analytics with applications for Healthcare, HR, Financial Services and Spend
- Informatica becomes a BI partner
- Named member of SAP Partner Advisory Council
- ISG launches Data Center Transformation and Cloud Services Practice with Cloud Workshop offering
- Broadened systems integration business with IBM and HP partnerships
Technology Milestones: HP acquires 3Par - Meg Whitman takes over as CEO HP. NetApp continues to grow with strategic offerings via Flexpod, Cisco and VMware. Apple iPad 2 sells more than 1 million units in first weekend. Industry loses icon and visionary, Steve Jobs.
