Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Editor calls for selectwoman to resign
- Storage Adviser | Mario Apicella | InfoWorld | Moving beyond NAS |…
- Small Firms Work As Heavy Lifters Of Area Economy
- Roundup: Public Storage REIT Strikes Deal with Shurgard Centers.
- QLogic at Deutsche Bank Securities Technology Conference – Final.
- STORAGE INSIDER: Optical and tape drives duel for archiving dominance…
- FOOD STORAGE FOR THOUGHT.(food jars from ASDAK International Inc….

Editor calls for selectwoman to resign
Cape Cod Today – Mar 13, 2006
But there was a question that needed to be asked a question that needed to be answered. Last week the Wareham Bulletin broke a story describing how Pillsbury apparently committed an ethical violation while she engaged in battle with a business competitor several years ago. STF Enterprises of Brockton is now suing the selectwoman and her husband for $1 million in damages claiming Pillsbury used her political influence to prevent its company from opening up a self-storage facility in Wareham. The case will go to trail at Plymouth Superior Court in July. According to her own attorney Pillsbury paid for an appeal for some abutters following a zoning board decision that would have allowed STF Enterprises to construct a 68000 square-foot facility at 3128 Cranberry Highway. Charles and Mary Jane Pillsbury own Community Mini Storage of Wareham Inc. located at 2370 Cranberry Highway… The case will go to trail at Plymouth Superior Court in July. According to her own attorney Pillsbury paid for an appeal for some abutters following a zoning board decision that would have allowed STF Enterprises to construct a 68000 square-foot facility at 3128 Cranberry Highway. Charles and Mary Jane Pillsbury own Community Mini Storage of Wareham Inc. located at 2370 Cranberry Highway. Two others members of the board of selectmen – Bruce Sauvageau and Brenda Eckstrom – suggested that Pillsbury who also serves as library director step down as selectwomen until the matter has been resolved. They got their answer during Tuesday’s selectmen meeting. "My presence here tonight should give you your answer" Pillsbury told the Wareham Bulletin.

Storage Adviser | Mario Apicella | InfoWorld | Moving beyond NAS |…
InfoWorld – Mar 13, 2006
If your company’s data will increase in a similar way you will probably outgrow the capacity and performance limits of your file systems and will have to give your NAS an early retirement. Could this be the reason why some large storage vendors purchased companies with a different perspective on file serving? The EMC-Rainfinity and NetApp-Spinnaker acquisitions are good examples. Probably but Goodwin doesn’t seem concerned by those acquisitions. ” Our OneFS is the world most advanced distributed file system” – he explains – ” and combines three traditionally separate layers file system volume manager and RAID into one”. A diagram should help clarifying how the Isilon IQ system would fit in your datacenter.

Small Firms Work As Heavy Lifters Of Area Economy
Washington Post – Mar 13, 2006
“We just grew up with Prince William. “Stories like Minnieland’s abound sometimes adding hundreds of jobs to the local economy sometimes constituting only a few more high-paying slots. Charles Kuhn started JK Moving & Storage Inc. while he was still in high school. More than two decades later the Sterling-based company employed more than 400 people. Accounting and consulting firm Berman Goldman & Ribakow LLP in Howard County has grown slowly adding only a person a year over the past 10 years. But it is a steady expansion linked to the growth of government contracting in the county.

Roundup: Public Storage REIT Strikes Deal with Shurgard Centers.
Free with registration – National Mortgage News – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 13, 2006
GLENDALE CA — Public Storage a self-storage real estate investment trust is acquiring Seattle-based Shurgard Storage Centers another self-storage REIT for about $5 billion. Public Storage is issuing about 38. 4 million shares of common stock to fund this merger and also assuming about $1. 8 billion of Shurgard debt PSA.

QLogic at Deutsche Bank Securities Technology Conference – Final.
Free with registration – Fair Disclosure Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 13, 2006
TONY MASSETTI CFO QLOGIC: Very good. Qlogic is a company involved with the interfaces and interconnects in the data center environment primarily we have been in the storage area networking area. We provide host bus adapters in both fiber channel and iSCSI technologies. We also provide switches fabric switches that operate within the storage area networking environment. We do sell some chips in this environment but the Main focus of the business is to provide the infrastructure for connecting enterprise servers and enterprise storage for customers like EMC Dell Sun IBM ecetera. The most recently we just made a couple of acquisitions Troika is the most — is a completed acquisition that happened last fall.

STORAGE INSIDER: Optical and tape drives duel for archiving dominance…
Free with registration – InfoWorld – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 13, 2006
STORAGE INSIDER: Optical and tape drives duel for archiving dominance – Vendors may push alternative archive technologies but disk drives are getting high praise from the low-end market. (13-MAR-06) InfoWorld… Take for example the UDO (Ultra Density Optical) Archive Appliance that Plasmon will announce in the next few days at CeBIT 2006 in Hannover Germany. (Here’s a quick recap o UDO. ) Describing the new Plasmon appliance is easy: Imagine an array of SATA drives in RAID configuration to expedite data transfers before actually moving your backups to the optical media. In fact this new appliance combines an NAS and an optical library and you.

FOOD STORAGE FOR THOUGHT.(food jars from ASDAK International Inc….
Free with registration – HFN The Weekly Newspaper for the Home… – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 13, 2006
Cool Gear International S1874 Cool Gear introduces combination storage items including its Cookie Dunkers item that holds cookies on one side and milk on the other. The EZ Freeze container keeps milk cold for hours and the twist-off cookie container keeps cookies crumble-free. The company also is.