KIS News Archives
December 2009
KIS is featured in the premier edition of Small
Business Insight of Hampton Roads. View
article.
November 2009
KIS has been selected for the 2009 Best of
Virginia Beach Award in the Security Systems
Services category by the U.S. Commerce Association
(USCA). View
press release.
KIS has achieved the Microsoft Server Platform
competency. This expertise enables us to build,
design, deploy, and support Windows Server, Windows
Server-based applications, and the Microsoft server
infrastructure. KIS is also positioned to help
support our customers’ business strategies through
high levels of availability, agility, automation,
infrastructure, and applications so they can run
their businesses.
KIS has achieved Hewlett Packard Elite Partner
status -
ProCurve Networking designation.
October 2009
KIS has been named a Cymphonix
Vantage Gold Partner. The Cymphonix solutions
offered by KIS provide complete visibility,
security, and control of all internet applications,
users, and content.
September 2009
KIS is ranked number 70 on Hispanic Business 2009
list of 100 Fastest-Growing companies.
KIS President & CEO Catherine Giordano is
appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Old
Dominion University Research Foundation. View
press release.
August 2009
KIS is ranked on the 2009 Inc. 5000 list of
fastest-growing private companies in America.
KIS President & CEO Catherine Giordano was
named one of CRN magazine’s Top 100 Women in the
Channel for 2009. Selections are based on
achievements and the amount of influence wielded
over the technology channel.
July 2009
KIS
President & CEO Catherine Giordano presented
"What’s
Keeping you from Winning Contracts", part
one of a two part series covering the most
common strategies business owners overlook when
trying to win a government contract. The Give Me
5 Training program is sponsored by Women
Impacting Public Policy (WIPP).
KIS is ranked 419 - up from 459 - on the 2009
VAR 500 list, an annual
ranking of the top 500 Value-Added Resellers.
KIS is
ranked 114 - up from 138 in 2008- on the
Hispanic Business 500 list,
an annual ranking of the largest Hispanic-owned
companies
May 2009
KIS
article,
"Consider using a 3rd-party IT provider"
was published in the Technology Expert section
of Inside Business, May 18 edition.
KIS has been awarded a two-year extension on
our STARS contract.
January 2009
KIS
President & CEO,
Catherine Giordano is appointed to the James
Madison University Executive
Advisory Council for Science, Technology,
Engineering, Mathematics, Health, and Human
Services.
Nannette Bongiovi, KIS Marketing
Director,
received a U.S. Army Freedom Team Salute for
supporting KIS employee,
SSG Glen Krinsky, and other Soldiers fighting
the Global War on Terrorism.
December 2008
KIS is ranked #6 on the Inside Business list of
Major Women-Owned Businesses in Hampton Roads.
KIS
celebrates 25 years with a Premier Technology
Showcase Celebration.
August 2008
Catherine Giordano is included in VAR Business 50
Most Powerful Women for 7th year straight.
KIS is ranked #3184 on the 2008 Inc. 5000 list of
fastest-growing private companies in America.
June 2008
KIS is ranked #8 on the Inside Business List of
Major IT Consulting Firms
KIS is ranked 138- up
from 182 in 2007- on the
Hispanic Business 500 list, an
annual ranking of the
largest Hispanic-owned
companies.
May 2008
KIS is ranked number 2 on the Inside Business List
of Major Hampton Roads-based Computer Service
Companies.
KIS is ranked 460 on the 2008 VARBusiness 500 list.
April 2008
KIS Security Services division was awarded a $58,200
contract ( N00189-08-P-0624) by FISC to perform
Electronic Security enhancements to the recently
renovated Port Operations harbor tower building at
Norfolk Naval Station- W313. In addition, KIS will
provide design and installation services for the
Classified POMS network which will use the newly
developed SecureLan Fiber optic Alarmed Carrier
subsystem to provide complete “Classified” network
security functions and notification of all alarm
points to the NOC at KBB. This is the third such
system deployed by KIS. Furthermore, KIS is known by
CNMRA as the “ONLY” qualified vendor to do such
work.
March 2008
KIS President, Catherine H. Giordano will present
the Keynote Address at the Women and Veterans Small
Business Conference on May 15, 2008 at Virginia
Western Community College, Roanoke, VA. This year's
theme is "Get on Target: Learn Steps to Grow Your
Business on Any Budget".
KIS President, Catherine H. Giordano testified in
Washington last week before the House Subcommittee
on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and
Emergency Management that programs set up to help
woman-owned businesses are not working. View the
press release and Catherine’s
complete
testimony.
KIS President, Catherine H. Giordano was featured on
the
March 5 broadcast of HearSay
with Cathy Lewis on WHRV discussing "Pentagon
South", the branding strategy being pursued by a
growing group of city development officials and
local defense contractors to position Hampton Roads
as a regional defense and homeland security
superpower.
February 2008
KIS is ranked number 7 on the Inside Business list
of Hampton Roads' Major Minority-owned Businesses.
KIS is sponsoring an item donation drive to support
our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Donations will
be collected at both our Corporate and Rosemont
locations through March 31, 2008.
January 2008
KIS is ranked number 6 on the Inside Business list
of Major Women-Owned Businesses in Hampton Roads.
August 2007
KIS's President, Catherine H Giordano named among the
top 50 in the annual '50 Most Powerful Women of the
Channel' List of Technology Integrators, Published by
CMP's VARBusiness Magazine.
July 2007
KIS named to CRN Fast Growth 100
June 2007
KIS
will be included in the Hispanic Business Magazine's
directory of the 100 fastest-growing Hispanic Companies
December 2006
KIS
President Catherine H. Giordano selected in Inside
Business's salute to the top 25 businesswomen in Hampton
Roads
September 2006
Catherine Giordano, president and
CEO of the Knowledge Information Systems technology firm
in Virginia Beach, has received the Fast 5 Award from
Women Impacting Public Policy, a national bipartisan
public policy organization.
August 2006
KIS's President, Catherine H Giordano named among the
top 50 in the first annual 'Power 50 Women of the
Channel' List of Technology Integrators, Published by
CMP's VARBusiness Magazine.
July 2006
KIS recognized as a top 100 fastest growing Hispanic
business for 2006 by Hispanic Business Magazine
May 2006
Knowledge Information Solutions Inc. is ranked #187 on
the 2006 Hispanic Business Magazine Directory of the 500
Largest Hispanic owned businesses.
April 2006
KIS and Catherine H Giordano
awarded KPMG LLP's High Tech Entrepreneur Award
2006
"This award honors an
individual who has demonstrated outstanding
entrepreneurial success in the development of a
technology-based, commercial enterprise. The
individual shall have been instrumental in the key
technology development, commercialization, and
subsequent demonstrated marketing success of related
products and services. The Entrepreneur's
enterprise shall be headquartered, or substantially
based, in the Hampton Roads region"
June 2005
Pulse: A
VARBusiness 500 Snapshot - KIS named to VAR Business 500
list of top IT contractors
GovernmentVAR 100: The Cream of the Crop - KIS named to
VAR Business 100 list of top IT contractors
June 2005
Virginia Pilot- KIS picked to join Navy's SeaPort Team
March 2005
Virginia Pilot
Business/ Special Report - The Defense Effect: Some
small, new contractors are finding success.
December 2004
Virginia Pilot - Catherine Giordano, president and chief
executive officer, presents KIS success story to the
President’s White House Conference on the Economy in
Washington DC.
May 2004
Virginia EOY program is one
of 36 regional programs throughout the country that
recognizes
outstanding entrepreneurs who are building and leading
dynamic and growing businesses.
Richmond TimesDispatch -
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® Program to Honor
Leaders
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