Terix Versus TPMGURU: What is this fuss all about?
What Is Third Party Maintenance?
Third-party maintenance (TPM) is hardware support for server, storage, and network equipment. Third-party maintenance is an alternative to traditional Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) warranty and post-warranty support.
What is the Story?
I work for a medical care organization here in USA and I am liable for supporting interior IT equipment resources which my company have. My supervisor requested that I reach out to organizations who give such support. Along these lines, I have reached not many of them. I have gotten numerous calls from various organizations. In any case, there was one individual who looked persuading to me. He was from India (Last Name, Kumar), sent me an email and requested an internet meeting too. Afterward, I was unable to have the option to interface with him. He was working for Terix Computer Service. Following not many days same individual moved toward me for new organization TPMGURU. He said TPMGURU is a sister organization of Terix Computer Service. He requested our IT stock rundown. In this way, they can share a quote. Once more, I was unable to share the stock rundown. Hardly any days back a similar Kumar fellow sent me an email saying TPMGURU isn’t Terix and a phony organization. I answered to him saying why he reached me at that point. I have never gotten a reaction from him. In any case, I have gotten not many messages from Terix. Be that as it may, at whatever point I posed inquiries, they won’t ever react. This is baffling in light of the fact that I have nothing to do with Terix or TPMGURU. I have examined this matter with my chief and an Indian companion. My manager requested that I report their messages as Spam. My Indian companion said it’s basic with few Salespeople in India. They work for numerous organizations and take commission. I investigated about both the organizations and discovered fascinating realities.
What is TPMGURU?
According to their site, https://tpmguru.com/:
TPMGuru is a global IT support company providing various types IT services and solutions which include maintenance and installation of IT based equipment and networking hardware and having a wide range of IT services to offer its clients based upon their needs and requirements.
Our engineers are not restricted to any particular brand of hardware or software. They have both adequate certifications and experience to setup and provide support for products belonging to all major vendors and manufacturers. With our comprehensive understanding of diverse business verticals and wide resources, TPMGuru mobilizes the right people, skills, and technologies to help organizations enhance its performance and transform cost burdens into competitive business assets.
According to Google, it would seem that genuinely another organization to me since I was unable to discover a lot of data. This is the thing that I have found about this organization:
TPMGURU CEO: Navin Pandey
Address: LOWER GROUND FLOOR D-112 PANCHSHEEL ENCLAVE NEW DELHI South Delhi 110017, Sector-3, Delhi-110017, Delhi, India
All out Number of Employees: 101 to 500 individuals
Year of Establishment: 2019
There is no much data accessible about this organization.
What is Terix Computer Service?
According to their site, https://terix.com/:
TERiX is the leading independent provider of flexible and innovative hardware and software maintenance service offerings to more than 1,000 customers worldwide, including many of the Fortune 500. TERiX focus is on the data center client with complete solutions for major OEM hardware suppliers. TERiX deliver customized and flexible services to manufacturing, high-tech, aerospace, telecom, banking/finance and chemical/pharmaceutical sectors. Many of each industry’s largest and most respected brands are our current clients.
According to Google, it would seem that an old company however here is the thing that I found about this organization:
Terix CEO: Bernd Appleby
Address: A, Block A, Sector 3, Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201301
All out Number of Employees: 101 to 500 individuals
Year of Establishment: 2010
Lot of information available about Terix on internet but it all looks fishy to me. TERiX CEO Gets Jail Time, $100K Fine for Fraud in Oracle IP Case. Not sure whether he is out or not.
The co-proprietor and CEO of TERiX Computer Co., Inc. was condemned in U.S. Region Court April 5 for his job in falsely acquiring very $10 million worth of property from the world’s biggest information base creator.
Bernd D. Appleby, 66, of San Jose, Calif., was condemned by Senior U.S. Region Judge James L. Graham of the Ohio Southern District to two years in jail, two years of managed delivery and requested to pay a $100,000 fine.
In June 2015, Oracle got a $58 million judgment against Terix for encroachment of copyright upheld Terix’s burglary of patches and updates to Oracle’s UNIX-based Solaris OS.
TERiX Had No Licenses from Oracle.
TERiX, with areas in both Sunnyvale, Calif. what’s more, Dublin, Ohio, deceitfully utilized the property having a place with Sun Microsystems — maker of Solaris — and Oracle, which gained Sun in 2010, to help its clients cross country and universally.
The issue was, TERiX was performing support for Sun and Oracle frameworks without authorizing from the corporate and had discovered shell substances (Maintech, Sevanna Financial and West Coast Computer Exchange) trying to get administration contracts and protect itself.
Appleby was one among four TERiX leaders who conceded in August 2017 to in any event one check of scheme to submit wire misrepresentation. The others have additionally been condemned and include:
TERiX co-proprietor and COO James A. Olding, 52, of Dublin, Ohio, who was condemned to a year and sooner or later in jail, three years of managed discharge and a $50,000 fine;
Overseer of Sales Lawrence E. Quinn, Jr., 58, of Hilliard, Ohio, who was condemned to at any rate one day in jail, two years of directed delivery and a $5,000 fine; and Head of Technical Services Jason T. Joyce. 47, of Dublin, Ohio, who was condemned to two years of probation and a $5,000 fine.
Set Up Fake Companies to get Service Contracts:
As per court records, the four men contrived to arrange three phony organizations utilizing assumed names which they upheld utilizing sham email locations and addresses, prepaid phones and pre-loaded Visas to go into administration support contracts with Sun and Oracle for one worker.
The help contracts in this way gave the four litigants accreditations for Sun’s and Oracle’s information bases and permitted them to download Sun’s and Oracle’s property without location. The property included firmware fixes and refreshes for different Sun or Oracle equipment items, or OS fixes and refreshes for different variants of Sun’s and Oracle’s Solaris OS.
The four utilized the deceitfully acquired property to help at least 500 TERiX clients, who didn’t understand the misrepresentation. A public statement of realities recorded with the supplication arrangements refers to very 2,700 separate downloaded bits of property somewhere in the range of 2010 and 2014.
The main role of the scheme was to deceitfully acquire property worth numerous dollars at that point utilize the property to help accidental TERiX clients, and for their very own advantage.
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TERiX CEO Gets Jail Time, $100K Fine for Fraud in Oracle IP Case:
https://www.eweek.com/database/terix-ceo-gets-jail-time-100k-fine-for-fraud-in-oracle-ip-case/
Jail for white collar pirates who stole from Oracle:
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/04/10/jail-for-white-collar-pirates-who-stole-from-oracle/
Terix executives sentenced in intellectual property case:
https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/trending/saufjkirj4ukw-aiqi6skq2
Oracle Solaris patch theft lands IT-support CEO in jail for two years:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/oracle-solaris-patch-theft-lands-it-support-ceo-in-jail-for-two-years/
The CEO of one of Oracle’s rivals has been sentenced to 2 years of prison — and Oracle is ‘pleased’:
Here is what people are talking about Terix on social media:
