BOSTON (April 17, 2025) — The Boston Business Journal has named PTP to its 2025 Best Places to Work — the BBJ’s exclusive ranking of the Massachusetts companies that have built outstanding work environments for their people.

The 100 companies honored in 2025 range in size and industry, with winners from the technology sector, retail industry, health care space, commercial real estate and more.

The businesses that met criteria for office location and size participated in employee-engagement surveys distributed by Business Journal partner Quantum Workplace. Employees were asked to rate their work environment, work-life balance, job satisfaction, advancement opportunities, management, compensation, and benefits. 

Based on the results of those surveys, businesses were assigned a score out of 100 percent and ranked by Quantum. The top-rated companies are listed in five size categories — extra small (20 to 49 employees), small (50 to 99 employees), medium (100 to 249 employees), large (250 to 499 employees) and extra-large (500 or more).

The Best Places to Work celebration will be held in-person on June 12th at The Westin Copley Place from 5:30pm – 8:30pm. The special publication will appear in the June 13th weekly edition of the Boston Business Journal. 

The Boston Business Journal is the region’s premier business media organization, one of 44 markets owned by American City Business Journals. For marketing and sponsorship opportunities, contact the Business Journal today.

About PTP

 Headquartered in Boston, PTP (Pinnacle Technology Partners, Inc.) delivers specialized cloud consulting, cybersecurity services, FinOps optimization, and managed IT solutions designed to meet the complex needs of life sciences, biotech, and healthcare organizations. As an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner with Life Sciences Competency, PTP provides end-to-end solutions including AWS cloud migration, Well-Architected Reviews, managed security services, and cloud cost optimization strategies. Through its PeakPlus™ managed services platform and deep domain expertise, PTP empowers innovators to accelerate discovery, maintain regulatory compliance, and drive operational efficiency — all while protecting critical data assets.

For more information, visit https://ptp.cloud.

Media Contact:

Gary Derheim
VP, Marketing & Business Development
marketing@ptp.cloud

[Norwood, MA]  March, 18, 2025 — PTP, a leader in cloud consulting and managed services, is excited to announce the acquisition of Stratogent, a premier provider of managed IT services. This strategic acquisition strengthens PTP’s ability to deliver tailored, high-performance solutions to its growing portfolio of biotechnology clients, supporting their unique needs in research, development, and regulatory compliance.

Meeting Biotech’s Unique IT Demands

With the biotech industry experiencing rapid innovation, organizations face increasing challenges in managing complex IT infrastructures, ensuring compliance with stringent regulations, and securely handling sensitive data. The integration of Stratogent’s expertise in managed services with PTP’s deep knowledge of cloud technologies positions the combined entity as a trusted partner for biotech companies seeking scalable, secure, and compliant IT solutions.

Enhanced Capabilities for Biotech Clients

The acquisition brings together two growing managed services companies with complementary strengths, enabling:

• Tailored Cloud Services: Scalable infrastructure design, implementation, and optimization to support biotech research and operations.
• 24/7 Managed IT Support: Proactive monitoring and maintenance to ensure system uptime and performance.
• Regulatory Compliance Expertise: Comprehensive solutions to meet HIPAA, GxP, GDPR, and other critical compliance standards supported by an organization with a SOC II, Type 2 report for validation.
• Cybersecurity Excellence: Advanced threat detection and mitigation strategies to protect sensitive data.

A Seamless Integration

The combined team of experts will work together to ensure a seamless transition for existing clients of both companies. Stratogent’s operations will continue uninterrupted, and PTP plans to integrate its services into a unified platform to deliver enhanced value to customers.

About PTP

 Headquartered in Boston, PTP (Pinnacle Technology Partners, Inc.) delivers specialized cloud consulting, cybersecurity services, FinOps optimization, and managed IT solutions designed to meet the complex needs of life sciences, biotech, and healthcare organizations. As an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner with Life Sciences Competency, PTP provides end-to-end solutions including AWS cloud migration, Well-Architected Reviews, managed security services, and cloud cost optimization strategies. Through its PeakPlus™ managed services platform and deep domain expertise, PTP empowers innovators to accelerate discovery, maintain regulatory compliance, and drive operational efficiency — all while protecting critical data assets.

About Stratogent

Stratogent, now part of PTP, provides outsourced IT operations and cloud management services for life sciences, biotech, and technology-driven organizations. With a focus on mission-critical environments, Stratogent delivers customized solutions across cloud operations, cybersecurity, infrastructure management, and compliance frameworks. Stratogent’s proven track record in managing complex, multi-platform IT environments strengthens PTP’s ability to offer full lifecycle cloud consulting, security services, FinOps optimization, and managed IT solutions tailored for the life sciences and healthcare industries.

For more information, visit https://ptp.cloud.

Media Contact:

Gary Derheim
VP, Marketing & Business Development
marketing@ptp.cloud

[Norwood, MA] — February 18, 2025 — PTP, a leader in cloud and managed services for the life sciences industry, is excited to announce the acquisition of Protocol Networks, a long-standing quality provider of managed IT services and IT consulting. This strategic acquisition strengthens PTP’s ability to deliver tailored, high-performance managed solutions to its growing portfolio of biotechnology clients, supporting their unique user and system needs. 

With the biotech industry experiencing rapid innovation, organizations face increasing challenges in managing complex IT infrastructures, processing and analyzing scientific data, ensuring compliance with stringent regulations, and securely handling sensitive data. The integration of Protocol Networks’ expertise in IT managed services with PTP’s deep knowledge of cloud technologies positions the combined entity as a trusted partner for biotech companies seeking scalable, secure, and compliant IT solutions. 

The combined team of life sciences-focused cloud and managed services experts will work together to ensure a smooth transition for existing clients of both companies. Protocol Networks’ operations will continue uninterrupted, and PTP plans to integrate its services into a unified platform to deliver enhanced value to customers. 

About PTP

 Headquartered in Boston, PTP (Pinnacle Technology Partners, Inc.) delivers specialized cloud consulting, cybersecurity services, FinOps optimization, and managed IT solutions designed to meet the complex needs of life sciences, biotech, and healthcare organizations. As an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner with Life Sciences Competency, PTP provides end-to-end solutions including AWS cloud migration, Well-Architected Reviews, managed security services, and cloud cost optimization strategies. Through its PeakPlus™ managed services platform and deep domain expertise, PTP empowers innovators to accelerate discovery, maintain regulatory compliance, and drive operational efficiency — all while protecting critical data assets.

For more information, visit https://ptp.cloud.

About Protocol Networks

Protocol Networks, now part of PTP, is a provider of managed IT, cloud infrastructure, and cybersecurity solutions with a strong presence in the life sciences and healthcare sectors. Known for its white-glove support model and commitment to operational excellence, Protocol Networks delivers scalable IT strategies that align with regulated environments and business-critical operations. The acquisition enhances PTP’s nationwide delivery of cloud consulting, managed security services, FinOps optimization, and full-service IT management tailored for innovative, fast-growing organizations.

Media Contact:

Gary Derheim
VP, Marketing & Business Development
marketing@ptp.cloud

PTP, a cloud consultancy and managed services firm specializing in the life sciences industry announced today that it has achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Incident Response Specialization. This Specialization recognizes that PTP is validated for providing a streamlined incident response solution, backed by AWS security response experts through AWS Security Incident Response.

PTP has a proven track record of successfully guiding biotechnology companies through the complex landscape of pipeline workflows on AWS for drug discovery and development. With the addition of the AWS Security Incident Response Specialization, PTP will offer additional security solutions to meet the needs of our clients from data protection, threat detection, to incident response and recovery.

AWS customers benefit from working with AWS Security Incident Response Specialization Partners that work in tandem with AWS to mitigate threats to customer environments. Validated partners work with the AWS Customer Incident Response Team (AWS CIRT) to identify, prioritize, and resolve security incidents faster. To achieve this Specialization, AWS Partners must possess deep AWS experience and deliver an incident response solution leveraging AWS Security Incident Response.

Achieving the AWS Security Incident Response Specialization differentiates PTP as an AWS Partner that has demonstrated incident response capabilities with a solution that integrates with AWS Security Incident Response. Customers can now leverage AWS and validated incident response partners to resolve incidents faster, using a streamlined incident response communications platform.

AWS is enabling scalable, flexible, and cost-effective solutions from startups to global enterprises. To support the seamless integration and deployment of these solutions, the AWS Specialization Program helps customers identify AWS Partners with deep technical knowledge, specialized experience, and proven success. AWS Specialization Partners are validated against a high technical bar to drive innovation and greater business value.

About PTP

 Headquartered in Boston, PTP (Pinnacle Technology Partners, Inc.) delivers specialized cloud consulting, cybersecurity services, FinOps optimization, and managed IT solutions designed to meet the complex needs of life sciences, biotech, and healthcare organizations. As an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner with Life Sciences Competency, PTP provides end-to-end solutions including AWS cloud migration, Well-Architected Reviews, managed security services, and cloud cost optimization strategies. Through its PeakPlus™ managed services platform and deep domain expertise, PTP empowers innovators to accelerate discovery, maintain regulatory compliance, and drive operational efficiency — all while protecting critical data assets.

For more information, visit https://ptp.cloud.

Media Contact:

Gary Derheim
VP, Marketing & Business Development
marketing@ptp.cloud

Norwood, MA, February 12, 2024 — PTP announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named PTP to its Managed Service Provider (MSP) 500 list in the Pioneer 250 category for 2024.

The MSP 500 list compiled by CRN serves as a comprehensive guide to identifying and recognizing the top Managed Service Providers (MSPs) in North America. MSPs play a crucial role in supporting businesses by offering managed services that enhance efficiency, simplify IT solutions, and optimize return on investment.

The annual MSP 500 list is divided into three sections: the MSP Pioneer 250, recognizing companies with business models weighted toward managed services and largely focused on the SMB market; the MSP Elite 150, recognizing large, data center-focused MSPs with a strong mix of on- and off-premises services; and the Managed Security 100, recognizing MSPs focused primarily on off-premises and cloud-based security services.

The MSP 500 list aims to showcase and celebrate MSPs that are driving growth and innovation in the industry. These service providers not only enable businesses to harness complex technologies but also contribute to maintaining a strong focus on core business goals without stretching financial resources. By categorizing MSPs based on their business models and areas of expertise, the list helps end-users find the right partners to meet their specific needs and challenges in the rapidly evolving technology landscape.

PTP was selected as a result of its cloud and managed services capabilities that it delivers to early and mid stage life sciences organization.  PTP’s depth of expertise in solving complex data management and data science challenges in AWS sets it apart, in addition to its breadth and maturity of IT managed services.

Jennifer Follett, VP of US Content and executive Editor CRN, The Channel Company, emphasized the significance of managed services for businesses at various scales, stating, “Managed services provide a route for businesses of all sizes to maintain efficiency and adaptability throughout their growth journey. The solution providers featured in our 2024 MSP 500 list are introducing cutting-edge managed services portfolios to the market, enabling their clients to achieve success by optimizing their IT budgets. This allows businesses to allocate resources strategically, concentrating on mission-critical tasks that drive future success.”

Gary Derheim, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, emphasized, “This recognition in the Pioneer 250 category is a testament to the impact our team is delivering for our life sciences clients.  Our depth of expertise engineering AWS cloud environments to accelerate science along with our foundational managed services is removing friction in IT and allowing our clients to focus on their business of developing treatments and therapies.”

About PTP

Headquartered in Boston, PTP (Pinnacle Technology Partners, Inc.) delivers specialized cloud consulting, cybersecurity services, FinOps optimization, and managed IT solutions designed to meet the complex needs of life sciences, biotech, and healthcare organizations. As an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner with Life Sciences Competency, PTP provides end-to-end solutions including AWS cloud migration, Well-Architected Reviews, managed security services, and cloud cost optimization strategies. Through its PeakPlus™ managed services platform and deep domain expertise, PTP empowers innovators to accelerate discovery, maintain regulatory compliance, and drive operational efficiency — all while protecting critical data assets.

For more information, visit https://ptp.cloud.

About The Channel Company

The Channel Company enables breakthrough IT channel performance with our dominant media, engaging events, expert consulting and education, and innovative marketing services and platforms. As the channel catalyst, we connect and empower technology suppliers, solution providers and end users. Backed by more than 40 years of unequalled channel experience, we draw from our deep knowledge to envision innovative new solutions for ever-evolving challenges in the technology marketplace. www.thechannelco.com

© 2024 The Channel Company LLC. CRN is a registered trademark of The Channel Company, LLC. All rights reserved.

The Channel Company Contact:
Kristin DaSilva
The Channel Company
kdasilva@thechannelcompany.com

PTP is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with MontyCloud as a foundation for its Amazon Web Services (AWS) Well Architected Framework Review and Cloud Operations practices through the MontyCloud Platform. By combining PTP’s AWS Well Architected proficiency with MontyCloud’s automation capabilities, the collaboration aims to accelerate time-to-value for PTP’s customers.  MontyCloud, an AWS Cloud Operations, AWS Built-In, and Well-Architected partner, offers an autonomous CloudOps platform that simplifies and accelerates the adoption of AWS.

While analyzing customer environments across the Well Architected pillars has been effective, PTP seeks to improve data presentation to customers in addition to delivering the seamless creation of project items for remediation.  Through the partnership with MontyCloud, PTP is augmenting its Well-Architected practice through:

• Enhanced Visibility: MontyCloud provides comprehensive reports on an environment’s compliance with Well-Architected standards, empowering organizations to make data-driven decisions for continuous improvement.
• Prioritization and Remediation: Prioritize WAFR findings based on their impact and remediate immediately using out-of-the-box automation
• Automated Routine Tasks: MontyCloud automates various WAFR best practices, allowing teams to focus on more strategic, high-value initiatives.

PTP Well Architected Reviews Are Available on the AWS Marketplace!

About PTP

 Headquartered in Boston, PTP (Pinnacle Technology Partners, Inc.) delivers specialized cloud consulting, cybersecurity services, FinOps optimization, and managed IT solutions designed to meet the complex needs of life sciences, biotech, and healthcare organizations. As an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner with Life Sciences Competency, PTP provides end-to-end solutions including AWS cloud migration, Well-Architected Reviews, managed security services, and cloud cost optimization strategies. Through its PeakPlus™ managed services platform and deep domain expertise, PTP empowers innovators to accelerate discovery, maintain regulatory compliance, and drive operational efficiency — all while protecting critical data assets.

For more information, visit https://ptp.cloud.

Media Contact:

Gary Derheim
VP, Marketing & Business Development
marketing@ptp.cloud

About MontyCloud

MontyCloud Inc. was founded with the fundamental principle of transforming teams into cloud powerhouses. The MontyCloud DAY2 platform is a no-code cloud management solution that simplifies CloudOps, without having to add additional IT resources. With MontyCloud DAY2, IT teams can enable self-service consumption, standardize deployments, optimize cloud costs, deliver granular governance, reduce security & compliance issues, and automate incident management.

[NORWOOD, MA, January 19, 2024] – PTP, a cloud consultancy and managed services firm specializing in the life sciences industry, announced today that is has signed a Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS). This agreement aims to invest in the development of valuable service offerings for PTP to increase its enablement of life sciences clients leveraging AWS.

PTP has a proven track record of successfully guiding biotechnology companies through the complex landscape of pipeline workflows on AWS for drug discovery and development. With the addition of the SCA, PTP will offer additional engineering capabilities on services such as AWS HealthLake and Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth and will expand to new geographies to empower biopharmaceutical companies who are developing therapeutics to harness the full potential of their scientific data to push treatments and therapies to market faster. 

Rob Cohen, Director of Product, Adaptive Phage Therapeutics (APT), shared, “APT is a clinical stage biotech operating clinical trials to combat multi-drug resistant infections. Our approach requires specialized computing, and it didn’t make sense for APT to build out a datacenter compared to leveraging AWS. PTP brought to the table the expertise to hear about our computational needs, translate them and operationalize them on AWS while embodying best practices and teaching us along the way. As our needs change, PTP has the talent to bring to bear on our challenges. We developed friendly and productive working relationships to the point of seeing each other as colleagues in the same office working on the same problem – not a vendor/customer relationship. While we’re geographically separated, we work together ensuring APT’s products and services are available to support clinical trials.”

“We are delighted to be working with PTP to help our mutual customers to accelerate their modernization to the cloud,” said Chris Sullivan, Vice President, Americas Channels and Alliances at AWS. “Through our multi-year SCA, AWS will work with PTP to offer managed cloud services for life sciences on AWS, unlocking potential for life sciences companies to bring life-saving treatments to market faster.”

This collaboration underscores the value of PTP and AWS to provide flexibility and unlock greater business value for customers across industries. For more information please visit PTP’s homepage.

In the fascinating, high risk/high reward domain of biotechnology, research validation and landing the next wave of funding stand as crucial checkpoints in first years of a startup. The 2023 Life Sciences arena has witnessed escalating scrutiny, disturbing reports of manipulated outcomes, and pressure to deliver results faster than ever before. Because of these pressures, building efficient, transparent and reliable data pipelines, in this case with Terraform, has become a top priority for leadership teams across the industry.

In an effort to address the data authenticity priority, PTP’s life sciences client selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) as their strategic consulting partner. From the beginning, the client’s primary goal in their engagement with PTP’s CloudOps and DevOps teams has been to fortify the validity of their research by streamlining and automating a mission critical data pipeline. The leading cloud infrastructure platform for Life Sciences, AWS, Terraform, and Nextflow, a software that is a recognized leader in scientific workflow systems, were chosen as cornerstone technologies to increase their likelihood for success.

After completing an AWS Well Architected Review, PTP had a solid working knowledge of how a couple of the client’s data pipelines had to work. PTP’s lead Solution Architect began using Nextflow to programmatically author a sequence of dependent compute steps tying multiple software apps (Cell Ranger, Seurat, Picard, and Star Aligner) to auto-configured AWS resources including E2, ELB, Auto Scaling, Lambda and Fargate. The integration of software tools and AWS infrastructure was completed, tested, and proven to work. From there EC2 Image Builder and Service Catalogs were set up to produce compute images in a controlled and repeatable manner. This allowed the client’s research teams to independently launch pipelines on AWS compute infrastructure via a pre-built Service Catalog. With this solution in place users can do their research securely online via a few easy-to-follow clicks. Governance of the work that these users perform is managed via AWS security policies with each user given the ability to launch relevant predetermined pipelines through the Service Catalog. The research process was, in a matter of weeks, automated, repeatable, adjustable and fully documented. This joint PTP and AWS solution ensures research validation while accelerating science. The image below demonstrates the overall environment.

All PTP builds have been put into Terraform templates to maintain known image files and component lists. Version control is handled by AWS Code Commit. As components change in Terraform, for example a software update to “version 4.2”, Terraform will know the file has changed and will deploy a new version of the component which then creates a new version of the recipe in Image Builder. For AWS cost optimization, which is extremely important when building infrastructure in this manner, the Service Catalog services are tied to Cloudwatch events. When devices go idle a trigger is pulled, then SQS queue and Lambda are used to terminate resources. This automates cost control. This systematic approach was arrived at by thoughtful engineering and has created an operationally efficient environment that can easily scale. The image below represents the Terraform and Service Catalog environment.

Recently, PTP has been working with the client to incorporate Amazon WorkSpaces for SAS access and AWS Managed AD. In the months ahead, PTP’s experience and consultative approach will be invaluable when determining the best options to isolate data and create additional levels of control and security.

PTP and the client’s IT and Informatics teams have implemented solutions that, at first, seemed complex and foreign. Embracing change is never easy, but by doing so the client has taken huge steps to avoid common data related pitfalls that face all Life Sciences companies, and thus has improved the likelihood of finding life changing relief for patients suffering from debilitating diseases.