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Global Data and the luxury of a boring connection
On a Gulf of Mexico workboat, a better network bought something unexpected: a way to call home. Global Data Systems makes its living managing the technology behind ordinary moments in difficult places.
Scott Behn Counted a Year in Minutes
The former Aureon chief spent a career making invisible systems dependable. His favorite number was 525,600 - every minute a customer expected the network to work.
BTC Broadband has a plan for the next severed cable
The Bixby telephone company grew into a fiber, voice and managed IT provider. Its next test is keeping Oklahoma customers connected when something goes wrong.
CompassMSP Wants to Be the Only IT Number You Need
A string of acquisitions has given CompassMSP national reach. Its pitch to businesses is more personal: fewer technology handoffs, stronger security, and someone who understands what an outage costs.
Telkom waited nine years for this turn
South Africa’s former telephone monopoly has found growth in the network beneath the apps. Its fibre recovery reveals the cost of replacing a business while millions of customers still depend on it.
Avoira makes the office talk to the factory floor
From two-way radios to AI call analysis, Avoira sells the connections that keep organisations working. Its most revealing projects begin with a broken meeting room, an awkward phone call or a system people have outgrown.
Avatara Wants to Put Your Entire IT Department on One Monthly Bill
Most cloud vendors rent you parts. Avatara wants to run the whole machine - desktops, security, support and compliance - for one per-user fee. A defense contractor's perfect CMMC score shows why that unusual bet is getting timely.
TPx Built the IT Sidekick for 25,000 Businesses. Then a $1.1 Billion Debt Load Became the Villain
TPx spent a quarter-century turning phone lines into an all-in-one technology service. Its 2026 restructuring reveals both the value of that model - and the price of financing growth with too much debt.
Clear Rate’s Bet: The Best Telecom Upgrade Is One Human Who Answers
For 25 years, the Michigan provider has sold a gloriously unsexy idea: one bill, one number to call, and fewer vendors to blame. Its opportunity is the mess between national carriers - and its risk is whether local service can stay personal as the platform grows.
The Co-op That Wired the Backroads Before Big Telecom Bothered to Look
For seventy-plus years a member-owned co-op in Abbeville has been laying fiber down roads the big carriers ignored. When Hurricane Helene knocked the region offline, its offices became the place people went to charge a phone and find a signal.
The Biggest Cable Company You Forgot Was Family-Owned
For 60 years Cox stayed private, poured billions into cable, and let louder rivals grab the headlines. Then it agreed to a $34.5 billion merger that puts its name on the country's largest broadband network.
The Business-Forms Company That Became an Operating System for the Back Office
GBS started with business forms at a kitchen table. Fifty-five years later, its employee-owners sell the connective tissue between labels, servers, medical claims, marketing campaigns and the documents companies cannot afford to lose.
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.
BEMO
BEMO is a Redmond, Washington-based managed IT and security service provider built specifically for small and mid-sized businesses that run on Microsoft 365 and Azure. Founded in 2010 by ex-Microsoft veterans Bruno Lecoq and Joel Lachance, the fully remote company bundles cybersecurity, compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, CMMC, NIST 800-171), managed helpdesk, and AI/Copilot security into packaged tiers so 10-to-500-person organizations can meet audit requirements without hiring an in-house security team. BEMO is a repeat Microsoft US Partner of the Year and a four-time Inc. 5000 honoree.