In September we will celebrate our tenth year in business. When we first began we decided that we would do one thing really well – managed services for small companies. Over the years our business has evolved, but we stuck to our core mission of providing managed services to companies with between 20 and 200 employees. We didn’t resell hardware or software and we didn’t support phone or security systems. Ten years ago we didn’t have the management structure, the accounting resources and the cash flow to do much more. That isn’t true today.

We aren’t the same company we were ten years ago. Today Architel owns and operates it’s own state-of-the-art network operations center and data center. Our facilities are staffed by highly trained ITIL professionals and meets SAS-70, PCI DSS and ISO 9001 requirements. We are one of the largest MSPs in North Texas and operate in six cities around the United States supporting more than 10,000 end-users. Finally, our local philanthropic efforts include support for the Chiapas Project, TREC FightNight and the Entrepreneurs Foundation of North Texas.

Realizing that we aren’t the same small company that we were a decade ago we have decided to expand our product and service offerings. Over the coming months we will formally announce partnerships with Microsoft, Cisco and Level(3) that will enable us to expand our managed services offerings to include a) outsourced NOC services, b) managed voice and data services, c) managed video surveillance services and d) software and hardware sales. By the end of 2010 we will have sold more than $6,000,000 in Microsoft products and related hardware, $3,000,000 in Cisco equipment and more than $2,500,000 in voice and data. By expanding our offering to include these associated products and services we will more than double the size of our company in fiscal year 2011.