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CSPI...$5.56...Time to accumulate!!! Hweb, I've been watching this company since you posted on it a few weeks ago. Not sure how the next couple quarters will turn out compared to Q4, but all-in-all, CSPI looks to be an EXCELLENT long term hold. What really catches my attention (more than earnings, LOW float, cash on hand, 0 debt, 8% dividend yield, and the strong 3 year support @ $5.50 a share) is the new addition to the BOD, Ismail Azeri. MAN-o-MANNY, I LOVE this guy's background!!!! He was co-founder of Stackdriver which was acquired by Google. Now he is Senior Product Manager for Cloud at Google. Not too shabby!! He also serves on the board of Threat Stack Inc and VMTurbo. Check out the recent news on how strong the growth is on those 2 companies...
http://vmturbo.com/press-releases/record-vmturbo-growth-2015-application-performance/
https://www.threatstack.com/threat-stack-rapidly-scales-business-expands-management-team.html

Here's more on Stackdriver and below is an excellent profile on Ismail Azeri from bloomberg...

Stackdriver is a cloud computing systems management firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. They aim to help DevOps manage large, distributed applications running in the public cloud. It visualizes application, system and infrastructure metrics and also provides a policy system to alert users when predefined thresholds are breached. Following a $5 million investment by Bain Capital Ventures in 2012, they entered public beta on April 30, 2013. In May 2014, they were acquired by Google.
Stackdriver was created in 2012, when founders Dan Belcher and Izzy Azeri—former coworkers from VMware—created the concept based on a survey of companies using AWS and Rackspace. The survey results and subsequent interviews highlighted many challenges that companies encounter when running large, distributed applications on public cloud infrastructure. Belcher and Azeri described the fact that respondents were monitoring their cloud infrastructure and applications using a range of open-source tools, each covering a different layer. It then became their goal to combine these different levels of monitoring into a single SaaS solution.
Stackdriver's founders secured $5 million funding from Bain in July 2012 and hired a team (including engineers from Red Hat, Acquia and EMC, as well as StyleFeeder founder Phil Jacob). After opening an office at Downtown Crossing in Boston, development of Stackdriver Intelligent Monitoring began in Fall 2012 and within months the staff had grown to 15. A beta version of the product became publicly available on April 30, 2013.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stackdriver

Ismail Azeri
Mr. Ismail Azeri, also known as Izzy, has been Senior Product Manager – Cloud at Google since 2014. Mr. Azeri is responsible for the pricing, packaging and discounting strategy across Google’s Cloud Platform business. He served as an Executive-in-Residence at Bain Capital Ventures since March 2012. Mr. Azeri worked closely with the Software and Infrastructure group. Mr. Azeri first started to partner with the Bain Capital software team in 2009. Mr. Azeri was a Co-Founder of Stackdriver Inc. and served as its President and Chief Executive Officer. He served as Executive in Residence at Bain Capital Ventures. Prior to joining Bain Capital Ventures, he spent three years at Acronis, where he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Americas, led sales and marketing. Before joining Acronis, Mr. Azeri established and led VMware’s Corp orate Business Development function and served as the Director of Corporate Business Development from 2006 to 2009, which resulted in several investments and acquisitions extending VMware into new markets including orchestration, desktop virtualization, and network security. Prior to VMware, he spent six years at EMC, with the majority of his time leading the Software merger and acquisition group. He has been a Member Advisory Board of VMturbo since 2009. He has been Independent Director of CSP Inc. since January 4, 2016. He served as a Board Member at VMware International from 2006 to 2009. Mr. Azeri serves as a technology and software industry leader with substantial strategic planning, corporate development, sales and operational experience. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Bentley University.
http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=205515804&privcapId=215632977&previousCapId=215632977&previousTitle=Stackdriver%20Inc.