PlanetMagpie

Why Choose Us?

PlanetMagpie has been a trusted IT partner to American businesses since 1998.

We offer all four pillars of business IT:  IT Consulting, IT Support, Web Consulting, and Cloud Services.  Use one or all of our services.  For customers who take advantage of all services, PlanetMagpie operates as your complete IT and Digital Marketing Department.

We manage our own private datacenter.  Security is paramount in our data theft-prone world.  The only way we could provide all the cloud services we wanted to, and control all aspects of data security, was to build & maintain our own datacenter right here in Silicon Valley.

We approach our work as a long-term partnership with your business. For that reason, we don’t employ any sales staff.  If you need IT equipment or software or a new telephone system, we’ll make a recommendation.  If not, we won’t.  We don’t try to sell you anything you don’t need.

100% Made in America.  We don’t offshore any of our work.  We believe it's important to build a strong American IT workforce and to support local businesses by buying American whenever possible.  Everything we can do to make a positive impact on the good old USA!

Our Business Standard

Our Business Standard

Your Loyal IT Partner

We “eat our own dog food.”  All technology we implement for your business is beta tested at PlanetMagpie.  Only after it’s proved itself, do we offer it to customers.  We’re a tough sell when it comes to partner products, so if we sell it, you know it’s reliable.

Like most things in life, you get what you pay for.  PlanetMagpie uses and sells only business-grade hardware and software.  Many brands provide savings up front, but they’ll cost you more over time in terms of hardware failures, security breaches, and business disruption.

We have old school business ethics and seek customers with the same.  We believe that both parties should benefit from business transactions.

Your emergency is our emergency.  If you have an IT failure, we will be there to help resolve it as quickly as possible.  24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  

We are as loyal as the dog whose name we carry.  We take great satisfaction in helping our customers grow their businesses by leveraging the latest technology to improve collaboration, sales, and security.

Industries We Serve

Industries We Serve

PlanetMagpie proudly serves small-to-enterprise businesses with their IT needs.

We serve big names like PayPal, Ghirardelli, Stanford University, Malwarebytes, Ducati, Linear Technology, Carl Zeiss Meditec, Pharmacyclics, Headsets.com, and Demandforce. 

We also serve many smaller companies whose names you might not recognize, but are the lifeblood of the U.S. economy.  We work with major government agencies, as well as non-profits.

Working for such a wide variety of customers means we have industry-specific knowledge and we know the IT solutions that will fit a particular customer’s needs.  Here are the industries we are currently serving:

  • Technology
  • Engineering/Construction
  • Real Estate/Financial Services
  • Professional Services
  • Food/Agriculture
  • Faith-Based Services
  • Healthcare
  • Retailers/Wholesalers/Manufacturers
  • Government/Education
  • Non-Profit
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Qualifications

A Team of Experts You Can Feel Comfortable With

Microsoft experts.  PlanetMagpie specializes in Microsoft environments.  We’ve maintained Microsoft Partner status for over 10 years, and our engineers have been certified in 3 Microsoft Gold Competencies & 10 Silver Competencies.  Among the thousands of Microsoft Partners, only 1% achieve Gold Competency-level.  We even help write the Microsoft certification exams for engineers across the world who want to prove their expertise.

Security focus.  We test all the IT hardware/software we recommend beforehand.  All software chosen for testing must have a high security rating.

Datacenter experts.  PlanetMagpie has run an enterprise-grade private datacenter since 1998.  The experience we’ve gained means we can troubleshoot your internal and third-party hosting issues better than anyone else.  We know datacenter operations & security inside and out.

Custom Website Developers. PlanetMagpie builds custom websites on several Content Management Systems (CMS). For small businesses who only need a simple website, we recommend WordPress. If your website needs a more custom feature set, we typically recommend Craft CMS.

PlanetMagpie is also a Sitefinity Partner, capable of supporting & customizing websites built on the enterprise-grade Progress Sitefinity CMS.