Inc. magazine today ranked TGA SOLUTIONS of Inman, SC,  No. 1921 on its fifth annual Inc. 500|5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. The list represents the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy—America’s independent entrepreneurs. Online retailer ideeli tops this year’s list. TGA SOLUTIONS joins Spirit Airlines, television maker Vizio, Honest Tea, Dunkin Donuts and Metrokane, makers of the Rabbit corkscrew, among other prominent brands featured on this year’s list.  TGA SOLUTIONS, a family-owned company for 31 years, is a systems integrator servicing midsize and enterprise-level businesses. TGA SOLUTIONS assesses, designs, and implements voice and network infrastructure, and handles storage, emergency backup, virtualization and managed services for a domestic and international customer base.

In a stagnant economic environment, median growth rate of 2011 Inc. 500|5000 companies remains an impressive 94 percent. The companies on this year’s list report having created 350,000 jobs in the past three years, and aggregate revenue among the honorees reached $366 billion, up 14 percent from last year.

Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at www.inc.com/5000.

For more information about TGA SOLUTIONS, please visit www.tgasolutions.com.

TGA SOLUTIONS Ranks No. 1921 on the 2011 Inc. 500|5000 with Three-Year Sales Growth of 134%

Greenville Business Magazine

Published July. 14, 2011

Concentration/Specialization: A technology solutions provider working with the small to medium business community to strategically align manufacturers, technologies, and professional service engineers to provide the most cost effective solutions to properly address a customer’s network and data center operational needs, strategies, and vulnerabilities. TGA acts as an extended arm to an organizations internal technical staff, instantly broadening a organizations knowledge-base, experience, technical resources, and geographic footprint.
Years in Business: 30.5 years
Mission: To have a positive impact on each of our customers as individuals and corporations, while working together to insure a secure network environment and enhance their IT systems and services.
Certifications: TGA currently holds several top level certifications with partners such as Cisco, VMWare, Citrix, Dell, and Microsoft. Awards/ Honors: Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies 2010, South Carolina 25 Fastest Growing Companies 2010
Professional Memberships: NFIB, National Chamber of Commerce Philosophy: TGA’s drive in positively impacting our customer’s’ lives, employment, and organization, through a customer-centric approach is easily achievable through strategically recognizing the need and utilizing industry leading technology and resources in fulfilling those needs. Listening to our Customer’s needs, concerns, and pain points, to successfully implement an effective solution, will ultimately give that individual peace of mind, increased productivity, and overall organization stability, performance, and increased profitability.
Free Advice: Never underestimate the importance of your IT infrastructure, and the impact it has on your business.
Biggest Mistake People Make Relating to Your Type of Work: Not realizing technology is more than a physical piece of hardware, and a solution is never as simple as a website or diagram makes it appear. Only diverse knowledge, experience, research, and strong partnerships can allow for a guarantee in insuring all areas from local PC to wireless, voice content security, and data backup/recovery, can seamlessly integrate and perform to those standards set by your industry, organization, and staffing needs.
Community Involvement: Several employees of TGA are active member of Spartanburg First Baptist Church, allowing involvement in international missions, community service, youth teachings, and marital counseling.
Greatest Personal Achievement: Being a Godly Husband and Father Greatest
Professional Achievement: Working with my wife in starting a successful staffing agency 30 years ago, keeping up with the corporate demands and evolving needs to become the leading technology firm we are today.
Motto/ Business Approach : Managing IT with Integrity Why Choose US: In today’s competitive business world hardware deals are led by extreme pricing pressures, the internet makes technology solutions obsolete and instead pushes hardware-only commodities. TGA stands behind their motto, and to us Integrity is more than a word. At TGA we stand behind our work and our professional commitment to each of our customers.
Contact Information:13891 Asheville Highway; Inman, SC 29681; (864) 473-1200; info@tgasolutions.com Website: www.tgasolutions.com

TGA Solutions Forms Alliance with
Convergence Technology Consulting LLC

Published June. 16, 2011

TGA Solutions has strategically aligned itself in partnering with Convergence Technology Consulting LLC, an IT consulting firm specializing in virtualization, headquartered in Maryland with offices throughout the Southeast .  This newly formed partnership will allow TGA Solutions to offer their customers the most experienced and knowledgeable virtualization engineers in the field, while extending their geographic reach.

Convergence is a Citrix Platinum partner, Microsoft Advanced Infrastructure Gold Certified partner, and a VMware Premier Partner, and has been recognized on a local and national level for their service and accomplishments.

“I look forward to the strategic partnership that will allow for Convergence to work seamlessly with TGA Solutions in successfully implementing virtualized networks in customer sites across the nation.” Larry Letow, President, Convergence Technology Consulting LLC

Inman, SC– Inc. magazine ranked TGA SOLUTIONS NO. 2356 on its fourth annual Inc. 5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. The list represents the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy—America’s independent-minded entrepreneurs.

The 2010 Inc. 5000, unveiled on Inc.com, serves as a unique illustration of the profound changes taking place in the U.S. economy.

“The leaders of the companies on this year’s Inc. 5000 have figured out how to grow their businesses during the longest recession since the Great Depression,” said Inc. president Bob LaPointe. “The 2010 Inc. 5000 showcases a particularly hardy group of entrepreneurs.”

IT Services had the second most companies on this year’s list with 607, and TGA Solutions was ranked 284 in the industry. TGA Solutions is also one of the 25 South Carolina based companies represented on the list. TGA is the only IT Services company in the Upstate that made the list out of the 10 advanced technology companies that are based in the northern part of the state.

TGA empowers clients with custom cost-effective solutions to increase efficiency and security via software, hardware, virtualization, storage and data protection and recovery. With 30 years of industry experience, highly-trained engineers, and a reputation for quality customer service TGA has earned prestigious partnerships with top software and hardware providers. These include premier certified partnerships with Cisco, Microsoft and Dell, and they remain the only Citrix provider in Upstate South Carolina.

“TGA has been a very important part of our lives for over past thirty years and to receive this award now is totally a direct result of our wonderful and dedicated employees and friends (customers). Without them, we would have never accomplished this great honor and achievement” says TGA Solutions President, Thomas Glover, Jr.

Immedion LLC is opening a second data center in Columbia. The second site further expands Immedion’s redundancy and disaster recover offerings.

“Locating our second data center in the Innovation Center will better enable us to provide services to businesses in the Midlands as well as throughout the state of South Carolina,” said CEO Frank Mobley. “In addition, the provisioning of a second, geographically diverse location will allow Immedion to provide uptime for critical technology beyond the capabilities of any single data center location.”

Immedion’s Columbia site is located in the SCRA USC Innovation Center. The building is adjacent to the University of South Carolina’s engineering school and is also within walking distance of Innovista, USC’s campus for research and entrepreneurship.

Today’s announcement “helps expand a knowledge-based company,” SCRA chief executive Bill Mahoney said. “Immedion is the kind of company we are looking for.”
The Columbia site will offer the same services as the Greenville headquarters with the goal of helping customers meet all of their IT space, server power, disaster recovery and regulatory compliance demands.

About Immedion
Immedion’s objective is to keep customer business-critical data and applications available 100% of the time 24x7x365. They accomplish this by coupling a world-class data center facility and a strategic array of managed services developed to deliver the highest degree of reliability at a very competitive price. Since 2007, Immedion has been delivering fully redundant power, Internet bandwidth, cooling and humidity control to the Upstate business’ IT infrastructure. Customers leverage the Immedion enterprise level data center to minimize critical computer system downtime caused by commercial power outages, Internet problems, or other system failures. Immedion is headquartered in Greenville, SC. For more information please visit www.immedion.com, or contact Immedion at 864.908.3000.