CoSentry’s notable growth over the past seven years has resulted from initiatives designed to meet the needs of business customers’ requirements for secure data center services and managed services from a single source provider. Click on the following documents for some highlights of the company’s exciting history.
History Data Sheet
CoSentry Historical View
2001
The Company, in partnership with Norm Waitt (co-founder of Gateway Computers), begins operations with the opening of a Secure Data Center and Network Operating Center and begins hosting several corporate clients while introducing an array of managed services.
2002
The Company enters the business continuity environment with the opening of a 400 seat work group recovery facility. The WGR offering is the direct result of client requests for a local, high availability hot site for work group recovery. In addition, the Company enhances its bandwidth offering with the addition of enhanced BGP routing capability adding multiple carriers complimenting its investment in redundancy.
2003
As part of the managed services offering and to support several Fortune 100 companies, SolutionsDeskTM is introduced to facilitate monitoring and management of client networks 24x7.
2004
The Company establishes the region’s only Print-to-Mail Recovery service. In conjunction with the build out of the Print and Mail facility the Omaha Data Center is expanded, more than doubling the Company’s raised floor offering. The Company also becomes the areas largest provider of high availability internet bandwidth.
The Company is listed as one of the fastest growing companies in Omaha by the Omaha Chamber of Commerce.
2005
The Company’s continued growth in business continuity and managed services drives a new branding of the Company’s offerings. The CoSentry brand is introduced providing one source for Work Group and Print-to-Mail Recovery along with Data Center Hosting and associated managed technical services. Continued strong client demand drives the expansion of the Omaha Work Group Recovery capability from 400 seats to 550 seats. CoSentry also establishes a 500 seat Work Group Recovery and Data Center facility in Kansas City, Missouri and a 250 seat Work Group Recovery and Data Center facility in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. CoSentry’s proprietary SolutionsDesk™ tool goes international in order to support, monitor, maintain and provide service dispatch for customers worldwide.
CoSentry is recognized for its progress and is named Technology Company of the Year by the AIM Institute.
2006
The Company partners with DataVault to provide disk based storage backup services for small- and mid-size businesses regionally. CoSentry also adds high end storage devices to manage data storage requirements for clients requiring terabytes of storage. The Company makes significant hardware investments in its server provisioning offering and enhances its server management tool sets. The Company introduces significant enhancements to SolutionsDeskTM and to CoSentry’s technical call center infrastructure and experiences significant growth in its Level 1, 2 and 3 technical support capabilities.
2007
The Company completes additional raised floor suites in Omaha and Kansas City. By year end the Company had over 15,600 square feet of raised floor space in addition to 1,200 Work Group Recovery seats and the region’s largest Print Recovery capability. CoSentry’s SolutionsDeskTM application is monitoring and managing over 250,000 devices world wide. CoSentry’s facilities encompass over 110,000 square feet of infrastructure dedicated to Business Resiliency Services making CoSentry the largest network of business resiliency solutions in the region. CoSentry’s success over the past seven years has its roots in our commitment to our clients, the ability to listen to their recommendations and to develop solutions that meet their requirements.
In recognition of its commitment to client communication and solutions development CoSentry was awarded the 2007 excellence in business award from the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce.
2008
Due to increased market demands the Company launches additional raised floor expansion efforts in both the Omaha and Kansas City markets. CoSentry added over 6,400 square feet of raised floor space, bringing total raised floor space under management to approximately 22,000 square feet. The Company also announces that the McCarthy Group has partnered with CoSentry to provide additional capital and strategic resources. Construction begins on the 100,000 square foot Midlands Enterprise Data Center.
2009
Entering 2009, CoSentry is well positioned with always on Enterprise Data Centers, always available Print and Work Group Recovery facilities and the complex technical expertise to support our clients with a robust, resilient always connected network delivering five nines service levels - all day every day.
CoSentry… your trusted source for the high availability infrastructure and collaborative technical services essential for a resilient, always-on business environment.