CRN® Recognizes Local Entrepreneur Maitjian Welke for Driving the Growth and Advancement of the IT Channel Community SAN JOSE, Calif. – CMIT Solutions of Southwest Silicon Valley, one of the region’s leading information technology service providers,, announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named president Maitjian Welke to its prestigious 2017 […]

CRN®Recognizes Local Entrepreneur Maitjian Welke for Driving the Growth and Advancement of the IT Channel Community   SAN JOSE, Calif. – Maitjian Welke, president of CMIT Solutions ofSouthwest Silicon Valley, one of the region’s leading information technology service providers, has been named to the CRN 2016 “Women of the Channel” ranking. The annual list highlights […]

Check out Maitjian Welke’s article “5 Straegies to Protect your Business from Email Compromise” published in CIO Magazine’s December 2015 Edition. Check out Page 19 of the CIO Magazine for Maitjian Welke’s article.

First, the Basics Small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) have to juggle many priorities and daily demands. Acquiring and retaining customers. Avoiding inefficiency. Delivering excellent customer service. Managing costs. Hiring employees. Meeting government regulations. Keeping current with industry trends. Technology can help SMBs streamline their processes, improve employee productivity, and maintain a competitive edge. But technology […]

  Another week, another data breach — at least that’s what it felt like when the federal government revealed last week that the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security had employee information hacked. Initial reports indicate that no sensitive information was stolen; apparently, the majority of the data breach concerned email addresses, phone […]

While we have yet to see a major shift by larger companies to cloud computing, we do see more acceptance by smaller companies to move their computing environments to the cloud. With the growth of mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets and laptops, the movement of data and computing resources to the cloud looks like […]

Perhaps you saw the recent New York Times article about airline pilots replacing bulky, printed in-cockpit flight manuals with digital versions on iPads. It makes great sense—the digital version weighs a fraction of the 40lb. paper version, receives updates in real-time, and is easily searchable. In the early- and mid-90s, when PCs were revolutionizing the way many […]

Recently, it seems that there have been a lot of incidents in the news about major corporations who have been hacked into or exposed customer data to outsiders.  You might well ask “If Apple or Sony can’t keep their systems safe with all their resources, how can I protect my business?”  Fortunately, you probably don’t […]

Maitjian Welke, the president of CMIT Solutions of SW Silicon Valley and Greater Palo Alto, one of the region’s leading information technology service providers for the small and medium-sized business community, has been named to CRN Magazine’s exclusive list of “Women of the Channel”.      

  In this edition of Cyber Security for Small Business, Steve Strauss speaks with Todd Welke (GM CMIT Solutions) to learn more about how to deal with cryptolocker and ransomware. Steve Strauss is a senior small business columnist at USA TODAY, author of 15 books (including The Small Business Bible), and CEO at TheSelfEmployed.com.