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Efficiency experts and budget watchers, rejoice. OS33 announces the Unified Cloud Consumption Reporting dashboard.

"One day," it has been said, "Every company will know specifically how their IT is being consumed. They'll have detailed information that would let them shift resources, eliminate redundancy, and do a better job of

OS33 Named “Coolest Cloud Platform” by CRN, second year running.

Companies have been working with OS33 as their cloud IT unifying platform for 10 years now.

OS33 Executives Named Among Most Influential IT Leaders

Every year, the CRN editorial team studies the world of IT looking for the most influential, and most powerful leaders. Among the factors they review are channel experience, program innovations, channel-driven revenue growth and category

External IT underscores commitment to security: TCI acquires Savid Technologies

TCI, a technology holding company whose acquisitions enhance the capabilities of External IT, recently announced the purchase of Savid Technologies.

OS33 INTEGRATES GOOGLE APPS, AHEAD OF THE CURVE AGAIN

The key to efficient IT, in a cloud computing world, is integration. Once again OS33 is leading the way, in anticipation of a growing number of companies using Google Apps.

External IT is helping companies calculate their ROI before moving to the cloud

How much is your IT currently costing you? What will it cost, over the next five years, if you construct and manage a first class, cloud based IT solution yourself? How much savings, and what

Is the cloud a mature market already? Our newest clients suggest that it is.

Trend one: Every industry is making the move.

David “Call me Kramer” Kramer, the new CTO here at External IT

No, it isn’t an operating system for your boots, it’s David “Call me Kramer” Kramer, the new CTO here at External IT.

Orchestrating the internet with your fingertips. External IT Cloud Drive

You’ve just found a major breakthrough in business cloud platform capabilities. The OS33 Portal Desktop, the platform used by External IT, has once again raced ahead of the industry and disappeared over the horizon.

Howard Reba joins External IT as CFO

At the end of the day, External IT is in the service business. The extent to which we are able to continue delivering smooth migrations for new clients, as well as responsive and knowledgeable Help

Testimonials

Brad Musgrove IT Director
TRL Systems
Chris Denisco CEO
SND Electronics
Erik Vonk Founder/CEO
Both
Kevin Lalezarian Lalezarian Developers
Mike Pfeiffer Pfeiffer Sales
Raymond Tam Controller
Lotus Clinical Research
Robert Tolmach CEO
classwish.org
Sherry Coleman Office Manager,
Harvest Partners
Wayne Wilson IT Director Supply
Chain Solutions

Business Milestones Time Line

215 BC

Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi manufactures components separately, ia specialization, for later assembly as The Terracotta Army-- 8,000 life-size clay soldiers and horses.
1520

The Venetian Arsenal, employing 16,000 people, produced one ship a day using standardized parts on an assembly-line.
1790

Eli Whitney invents an assembly line where the equipment provides the precision. This opens the door to jobs for unskilled labor.
1881

The first business school is founded, Wharton Business School.
1899

Johan Vaaler, Norwegian inventor, patents the paperclip. (Legal and accounting documents continue to be misplaced but are now lost among tidier stacks of paper.)
1901

Oldsmobile builds the first assembly line with automated machinery. Automobiles roll off at break-neck pace, two miles an hour.
1925

Alfred Sloan, Chief Executive Officer, GM, introduces an approach to business based on assessing a competitor’s strengths and vulnerabilities.
1940

WWII brings management science to the forefront, paving the way for quantitative analysis--a cornerstone of contemporary Internet marketing.
1944

Peter Drucker popularizes the concept of business actively controlling economic markets and assuming adaptive competitive behavior.
1945

The House Small Business Committee champions lower tax rates to help grow a healthy small business community.
1947

John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, William Shockley invent the transistor, making electronic miniaturization possible.
1951

Edmund Berkeley invents first personal computer. He names it Simon.
1959

Advertising agency Doyle Dane Bernbach employs cognitive psychology to create “Think Small,” campaign. Marketers are prompted to rethink principals of selling as DDB succeeds in popularizing a diminutive, underpowered and German car just 15 years after WWII.
1960

Cloud computing, as a concept, is proposed by John McCarthy. “Computation may someday be organized as a public utility.”
1961

IBM launches Selectric typewriter. Office productivity advances and document appearance improves as multiple typefaces are easily employed by way of a “typeball.”
1964

Douglas Engelbart invents computer Mouse and Windows.
1969

ARPAnet launched, the original Internet. From the outset, ARPAnet was to be, “An intergalactic computer network,” as described by creator J.D.R. Licklider.
1973

The first personal computer is brought to market, the Scelbi (SCientific, ELectronic and BIological). It sold for $1,000 and had 1k of programmable memory.
1975

Bill Gates launches Microsoft to develop BASIC interpreters for Altair 8800.
1976

Graduate schools in business are launched nationwide in response to Viet Nam veterans returning for degrees with funds from GI Bill. Management consulting boom is launched. Business management books proliferate. “Focus groups, branding, segmentation, strategic planning, just-in-time distribution, teaming exercises, workflow management, guerilla marketing, word-of-mouth marketing, cost accounting, and similar concepts emerge, redefining all business operations.
1983

Apple Lisa born, the first home computer with a GUI (graphic user interface).
1994

Lycos, Infoseek, Altavista and WebCrawler are among the many search engine companies launched in the early 1990s. 54k modems are suddenly mass produced. A non-tech savvy public quickly outnumbers the early Internet adopter.
1995

Larry Page and Sergey Brin meet at Stanford, contest each other’s point-of-view, but team up. "Googling" becomes idiom.
2000

Advent of “high speed” internet moves cloud computing research from back to front burner, turning it into a technological, “next wave,” business priority. External IT founding partners begin development of OS33, the first commercially available, comprehensive cloud computing platform for small to midsize business. Soon after, External IT joins short list of pioneering IT hosting companies.
2007

IBM and Google announce multi-university project designed to accelerate advances in cloud computing. (ACAI, Academic Cloud Computing Initiative)
2015

IBM asks External IT for “just a little peek” at OS33 Portal code.
2020

Google approaches External IT to host entire Google empire. Migration complete in 12 minutes.
2025

Self-filing expense report makes debut.
2030

Emily Post Society announces “Seven Sigma Politeness Award.” (One sigma better than six. A realm of politeness so extreme it’s purely theoretical.) The first recipient, Colin, of External IT, begins on-foot trek across America to thank every business person, personally.
2035

Microsoft launches Word / Telepathy Mode
2040

Nike invents golf ball that always gets “a member’s bounce.” Uncoordinated grateful millions are finally able to call Bethpage, Butler National, Quail Hollow and Pebble Beach “the office.”
2045

Freezing issue with Word / Telepathy Mode fixed. Co-workers no longer have to reboot each other.
2050

Starbucks achieves goal of franchise in every cubicle. Global productivity hits all time high.