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Cybersecurity Services for IronEdge Group

Founded in 2005, IronEdge Group is a Houston headquartered managed services provider delivering managed IT, cybersecurity and cloud services to small and midsize businesses across Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas and Missouri.

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TypeMid-Market VAR
HQHouston, Texas
Focusmanaged it services, co-managed it, cybersecurity, cloud migration, it help desk, small and midsize business
SizeMid-Market
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CWS is not affiliated with IronEdge Group. This page describes cybersecurity delivery services CWS offers to channel partners.

Company Profile

IronEdge Group at a glance

Founded
2005
Operates in
Houston, Texas (headquarters, 16285 Park Ten Place), San Antonio, Texas, Phoenix, Arizona, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Grand Junction, Colorado, Kansas City, Kansas, Kansas City, Missouri
Verticals
engineering, manufacturing, financial services, construction
Vendor tiers
Microsoft Solutions Partner
Recognition
CRN MSP 500, Channel Futures MSP 501
Ownership
Owned by The Riverside Company, which merged ProVelocity with IronEdge in February 2023 to form a managed IT services platform and has since added Lighthouse Business Information Solutions to the same platform. LANstar, an Arizona provider founded in 2000, was acquired by ProVelocity and IronEdge in 2023

Compiled from public sources: https://www.ironedgegroup.com/, https://www.ironedgegroup.com/about-us/, https://www.riversidecompany.com/currents/ironedge-provelocity-news-release, https://www.generational.com/transactions/lanstar-acquired-by-provelocity-and-ironedge/.

Industry Context

The Challenge for Mid-Market Resellers

IronEdge Group was registered in Houston in July 2005 and stayed a Texas company for most of its life. That changed in February 2023, when The Riverside Company merged it with ProVelocity to build a managed IT services platform. The map redrew fast afterwards. Phoenix, Albuquerque, Grand Junction and two Kansas City offices now sit on the same list as Houston and San Antonio, and LANstar, an Arizona provider founded in 2000, was folded in later that year

A platform consolidates the logo long before it consolidates the engineering. IronEdge answers to one name across six states now, and a manufacturer in Albuquerque expects what a Houston client gets. Riverside's thesis is more deals, so the count of inherited tool stacks and inherited working habits keeps climbing rather than falling. Client demand has moved up a level at the same time. Engineering, manufacturing, construction and financial services buyers are asking about identity governance, cloud configuration review and detection engineering, and those skills do not come attached to an acquired help desk. Standing them up in Phoenix and Kansas City and Grand Junction at once is not a hiring plan

CWS answers that by staying invisible. Engagements are staffed under the IronEdge Group name, held to a single delivery standard, and available anywhere across the United States and Canada, with English and French delivery where Quebec or Canadian federal requirements apply. No office has to carry its own specialists to sell specialist work. Corova runs the scoping, the quoting and the project tracking, which means the next company Riverside buys inherits a working process on day one rather than spending a year building one

How CWS Helps

Relevant CWS Services for IronEdge Group

Based on IronEdge Group's specializations, the following CWS service lines align with their cybersecurity practice.

Security OperationsCloud Security
Positioned at the Point of Decision

Why This Matters for IronEdge Group

Riverside will keep buying, so the capability gap is structural rather than a bad quarter. A bench you can call on the day a deal closes is worth considerably more than one you start recruiting for afterwards. The clients you inherit will test it long before the integration plan is finished

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