Analyze from first principles
Start from what is actually true about your situation, not from the reference architecture that shipped with the product.
About Collaborative Technology Partners
Research rigor, practical architecture, and a direct relationship.
CTP has advised organizations through decades of infrastructure change. That history is why vendor independence, documented reasoning, tested recovery, and personal accountability are built into the way we work.
Founded in Woburn · Serving New England and beyond · Senior people stay involved
Our story
From datacenters to distributed architecture
The infrastructure we built careers on has been dismantled by pricing, consolidation, and cloud. That is why our position on vendor independence is not theoretical.
2000
Founded in Woburn, Massachusetts
Enterprise infrastructure consulting for organizations that needed research rigor rather than a reseller relationship.
2008
Security practice formed after real incidents
Response work alongside law enforcement shaped a security posture built on what attackers actually do, not on a framework checklist.
2015
First large-scale Microsoft 365 migrations
The beginning of a practice that now spans 187 completed migrations across regulated and private organizations.
2022
VMware and EMC change the calculus
Licensing changes and consolidation made single-vendor infrastructure a liability. We stopped deploying VMware entirely.
Today
Seven layers, each independently replaceable
A documented architecture model applied across 126 clients, designed so that change stays a business decision.
Research-led methodology
Researchers first. Technologists second.
Our senior consultants came from environments where methodology is documented and conclusions survive peer review. The order below is the order we work in.
Test the assumptions
Interoperability, restore paths, and failure modes get verified before they appear in a recommendation, not after.
Draw from several disciplines
Identity, storage, networking, and security constrain each other. A decision made in one discipline usually costs something in another.
Document the reasoning
Every control traces to a requirement. That record is what makes the environment defensible to an examiner and maintainable by whoever inherits it.
Recommend last
A solution proposed before the problem is understood is a product pitch. We would rather tell you that you do not need the work.
Revisit as conditions change
Pricing shifts, vendors consolidate, requirements move. The architecture is reviewed against those changes rather than left to age.
Where this leads
Start with one project. Grow into an architecture.
Most relationships begin with a single piece of work: a migration, a security review, a renewal that came in too high. As the environment takes shape, the same three principles start shaping every decision.
How we design technologyPerformanceIt works, every time, fast enough that nobody thinks about it
AvailabilityThe business keeps running when something fails
CostYou know what you spend and what it buys you
Multidisciplinary depth
Practical depth at every layer
Deliberately mapped to the seven-layer model, so the same vocabulary carries from the About page through to a solution page.
Identity & device management
Okta and Entra ID, conditional access, device compliance, zero-trust design
Collaboration
Microsoft 365, Teams, SharePoint architecture, retention and classification
Security & monitoring
Cross-platform SIEM, detection engineering, incident response from real cases
Backup & portability
Immutable backup, cross-ecosystem restore, tested recovery objectives
Physical infrastructure
Nutanix and Hyper-V, storage design, right-sizing what stays on premises
Connectivity
Network-as-a-service, segmentation, making distributed systems feel local
Strategic planning
Virtual CIO, board reporting, budget forecasting, vendor negotiation
25Years in business
126Clients served
187Migrations completed
3,978Support tickets resolved
The people
Researchers first, technologists second
Senior consultants work from a documented method, test assumptions before recommendations, and stay close enough to the client to understand the operating context.
In their words
What clients say
We needed an IT firm that listened to what we needed, not a one-size-fits-all program. CTP built an infrastructure and support plan that fit perfectly, and as we grew they kept adjusting it.
John Bray
CFO, NewStar Financial
I know I can always count on the expert staff at CTP to execute in a friendly, professional manner. Do it with CTP, and do it right the first time.
Mike Davis
IT Director, Bridge Energy Group
The company has a wide ranging, multi-disciplinary technical knowledge of the industry that comes through time and again for the Bank.
Philip Miller
VP of IT, East Cambridge Savings Bank
Microsoft 365
Okta
Veeam
Nutanix
SumoLogic
Lumen NaaSVendor decisions stay open. The mix changes by client and by layer. A logo is never a commitment to the rest of that vendor’s stack.
Work directly with the people designing the answer
No sales deck. No product pitch.
A substantive conversation with a senior CTP advisor about where your architecture is, where it should be, and how to get there without unnecessary disruption.
A senior advisor reads every request and starts with your situation.