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Virtual Service Operations and the virtue of boring IT
A six-minute data load, a $50 million deskside contract, and a workforce built around military veterans. VSO makes its case in the places where grand cloud promises meet ordinary working days.
The Two-Year Trial That Lasted Three Decades
Before Tom Frana sold cloud services to Washington, he packed parachutes and learned that delivery means nothing unless the customer can use what arrives. At ViON, that lesson became a business model - and a two-year audition became a career measured in decades.
How Precise Software Won Big Government Work by Staying Small - and What Other Service Firms Can Steal
A former big-contractor principal built a 150-person federal IT firm around a simple wager: agencies would trade a famous logo for faster decisions, working software and people who stay close to the mission. Two decades later, the interesting part is not its technology stack - it is the operating model underneath it.
ComputerLand of Silicon Valley
ComputerLand of Silicon Valley (legally CCT Technologies Inc.) is a San Jose-based technology solutions provider and value-added reseller founded in 1991. Over three decades it grew from a storefront computer sales-and-service shop into a full-service IT partner delivering cloud, cybersecurity, managed services, network infrastructure, virtualization, unified communications and IT logistics to government agencies, K-12 and higher-education institutions, and commercial businesses across California and beyond. A longtime approved E-Rate and NASPO ValuePoint reseller and Microsoft authorized education reseller, the company was acquired by cloud and cybersecurity firm ISSQUARED Inc. on May 1, 2024.
EvolveWare, Inc.
EvolveWare is a Santa Clara, California software company that automates the documentation, analysis and modernization of legacy software applications. Its AI-enhanced Intellisys platform - built on more than two decades of custom-trained machine-learning technology and protected by multiple U.S. patents - extracts business rules and transforms code from 20+ legacy languages such as COBOL, PL/I and RPG into modern Java and C#. Founded in 2001 and bootstrapped since, EvolveWare serves government agencies and large enterprises including the U.S. Department of Defense, the State of New York, Deloitte and KPMG.
Connie Tang
Connie Tang is the CEO and founder of CCT Technologies Inc., operating as ComputerLand of Silicon Valley - a San Jose-based IT solutions firm she built from a storefront computer shop in 1991 into a 55-person enterprise serving government agencies, K-12 schools, higher education institutions, and commercial businesses across Northern California. After more than three decades at the helm, she led the company through a strategic acquisition by ISSQUARED Inc. in May 2024, positioning the combined entity to expand in cybersecurity, AI, and edge computing.