San Jose manufacturers build chipmaking tools, network gear, medical devices, batteries and prototype hardware in the valley where the semiconductor industry began. ITServices.Tech gives San Jose manufacturers a managed IT program built around four jobs: answering staff questions, guarding against attacks, keeping recoverable backups and planning technology spending.
Hardware in Silicon Valley
Applied Materials, Intel, Nvidia and AMD are based in Santa Clara, KLA in Milpitas and Cisco in North San Jose. Around them are hundreds of smaller firms: printed circuit board assemblers in Milpitas and Fremont, precision machine shops, test labs and startups building robots, batteries and medical devices in Sunnyvale and San Jose.
Export rules and foreign national staff
Federal export rules on advanced chips and chipmaking equipment have tightened several times since 2022. Sharing controlled technology with a foreign national employee inside the United States can count as a deemed export that needs a license. We help you tag controlled design files, limit access by person and keep records your export compliance lead can show.
Design files are the crown jewels
Schematics, board layouts, firmware and process recipes are what competitors and foreign intelligence services want most. Endpoint monitoring, data loss controls on email and cloud storage, and alerts when someone downloads far more than usual protect that work.
Prototype labs and test benches
Lab PCs that run oscilloscopes, test fixtures and instrument software often stay on old operating systems for years. We keep them on a separate network, back up their configurations and manage how data moves off them.
Contract manufacturers and NPI
New product introduction means sharing drawings, bills of materials and test plans with contract manufacturers in Asia and Mexico. Secure portals with expiring access and watermarked files let you share what partners need without handing over everything.
Shutoffs and the Hayward fault
Fire-season shutoffs from PG&E can darken a building for a day or more, and the Hayward and San Andreas faults run right past the valley. A battery and generator plan for the server room, racks anchored to the floor and an offsite copy of every repository in another region let engineering pick up again.
IT services for San Jose manufacturers
- Support for the shop-floor network and machine PCs
- Server, backups and user access for your ERP
- Office and shop-floor networks kept separate and secure
- CMMC preparation for defense suppliers
Everything runs under one managed IT agreement, with the help desk, monitoring, patching, Microsoft 365, security and backups handled by the same team.
Software we support
We support the systems you already run, such as Epicor, JobBOSS, SAP Business One and Microsoft Dynamics, along with SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Mastercam and label software like BarTender, without making you replace them. PLC and controller programming stays with your machine vendor or integrator.
Security and compliance
We help defense suppliers prepare for CMMC Level 1 and Level 2 (NIST SP 800-171) with a gap review, policies and security controls. The formal assessment is done by an outside assessor (C3PAO).
California’s privacy laws, including the CCPA, give residents rights over their personal information and raise the stakes of a breach.
Office hours in San Jose
Office hours for San Jose clients are Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Pacific, in your own time zone.
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