Press Release: President and CEO of The Chip Merchant Is Named Finalist for the 2012 Information Technology Executive of the Year Awards 04 / 18 / 2012
Jorge Ruiz de Castilla, President and CEO of The Chip Merchant was recognized as a finalist for the 5th Annual San Diego 2012 Information Technology Executive of the Year Awards presented by the San Diego Business Journal.
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As 2011 draws to a close, this would be an appropriate time to look back on the past year and reflect on the many exciting changes that have taken place at The Chip Merchant, TCM. More...
Section 179: Invest In Your Business 11 / 08 / 2011
Section 179 of the IRS tax code allows businesses to deduct the full purchase price of qualifying equipment and/or software purchased or financed during the tax year (bought or leased), from their gross income. More...
Over the past few months, we have taken on a handful of new clients who were in the same predicament. Their server was on their last legs and they were faced with a decision to either upgrade to a new server or move to a cloud server. In each case, I would go over the pros and cons of each choice... More...
If you are reading this newsletter, you are already one of our valued customers and know TCM for the computer hardware solutions we have been providing for the past 25 years. Over the past couple of years, we have taken requests from various customers to help them with their company’s IT issues. Since then, these requests have increased in such a manner that we made the decision to... More...
We’ve spoken quite a bit in our newsletter about “The Cloud” and virtualization, and what it can do for you. Now that we have our cloud up and running, we thought we should talk a little about security in our cloud. One of the biggest concerns with hosting your server somewhere else with someone else is security. How do you know that your data is secure, and not able to be accessed by anyone else?
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TCM Partners with Telcentris for Hosted VoIP Solutions 07 / 19 / 2011
TCM is proud to announce its partnership with Telcentris to provide hosted VoIP solutions. A proven leader in cloud communication services and unified communication solutions, Telcentris enhances TCM's current cloud offerings with the addition of hosted PBX phone solutions. Much like servers and desktops, businesses are now moving their phone systems to the cloud.
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"We are a small business, and as many other companies like us we fell behind on infrastructure and technology improvements over the years. TCM built a plan to...
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