Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Europe’s Image Clashes With Reliance on Coal
- Office, retail building takes shape
- Computex roundup
- UGS’ Tecnomatix Improves Accuracy of Factory Designs and Optimizes…
- Chambers emphasizes Cisco’s changing role
- ATamp;T Study: More Than 25 Percent of US Companies Are Unprepare…
- Are You Ensuring The Security of Your Keys?

Europe’s Image Clashes With Reliance on Coal
New York Times – Jun 20, 2006
The company is building a carbon-free plant, but only as a demonstration model. Germany plans eight new coal-fired power plants over the next five years.

Office, retail building takes shape
Republican – MassLive.com – The Republican – MassLive.com – Jun 20, 2006
8-acre parcel of land18 months ago. Their company, Springfield Investment Group LLC, purchasedland on Fiberloid Street last May for $162,500, according torecords at the Hampden County Registry of Deeds. The office complex should be partially complete bySeptember and fully complete by November, according toDaniel Garvey. Jennings, who is leasing the building, isnegotiating with a potential office tenant for 10,000 squarefeet on the second floor, and has proposals out to threepotential tenants for the first floor. The potential tenants for the first floor include achiropractor, a lawyer and a health and wellness center, hesaid… The Garveys have other occupations and investments. DanielGarvey is a lawyer and Peter Garvey is an engineer. In addition to McNamara’s, they own Springfield SelfStorage LLC on Cadwell Drive and some rental properties.

Computex roundup
TechCentral – Jun 20, 2006
The MiniPC uses Intel Pentium M or Celeron M processors for quieter operation and better power consumption. This is the only “pared” down component inside this computer when compared to a full-sized desktop. Mice and keyboards Moving on, there was no shortage of companies parading keyboards and mice in all manner of sizes, shapes and colours. But in terms of new technologies, only A4 Tech seemed to have put something innovative inside its mice its GLaser mice are able to work on any surface including shiny ones, which has always been the Achilles heel of optical mice. It is so good that the GLaser, which is supposed to stand for “greater than laser,” even works on transparent glass. It achieves this by using a dual focus lens, according to A4 Tech. Expect a slew of these rodents in a few months, as A4 Tech is preparing to release no less than 10 varieties… We sure hope we get our hands on one before we are hit by another round of haze. Same tune We were quite disappointed that none of the MP3 players showcased looked like it could take on Apple’s dominant iPod. Sure, they were cuter, more colourful, and featured large storage capacities but somehow they still lacked the coolness that only an iPod exudes. And it looks like everyone wants in as even Kingston, better known for its RAM modules, showcased its media player that plays video, music and even games. The K-PEX (Kingston Portable Entertainment eXperience) has a 2in screen capable of displaying 200 x 176pixels. The player, which comes in 1GB and 2GB storage capacities, practically plays all known video and audio formats, and has an SD card slot for additional storage space. Kingston will include two games with the device, but it is not clear if more games will be made available by third-party companies.

UGS’ Tecnomatix Improves Accuracy of Factory Designs and Optimizes…
Free with registration – PR Newswire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 20, 2006
UGS made the announcement today in conjunction with its annual industry analyst conference in New York. (See separate UGS announcements from today. ) “Using the latest versions of FactoryCAD and FactoryFLOW, companies can create virtual plants that are not only accurate in physical design, but also contain intelligence and a strong rules-based modeling approach via the use of ‘smart objects’ that represent plant resources,” said Al Hufstetler, vice president, Tecnomatix Marketing, UGS. “Factory designers can then optimize plant layouts based on material flow distances, frequency and costs. The resulting state-of-the-art digital factory represents a competitive advantage for progressive manufacturers.

Chambers emphasizes Cisco’s changing role
com.com – Jun 20, 2006
html” >changing role of Cisco and the products it offers to its customers, which includes businesses large and small, telephone companies, cable operators and consumers. He said the company is moving beyond just providing the infrastructure and plumbing of Internet Protocol networks, and is instead moving toward offering customers a series of products that let them launch new communications services. “I’m proud to be a plumber,” he told reporters. “It’s been a good occupation. However, this plumbing is moving beyond transport. For the past several years, Cisco has been working to establish itself as more than a switching and router vendor, which today still accounts for the bulk of its revenue… Cisco has defined these new markets by calling them Advanced Technologies. And it selects them based on their potential to generate $1 billion in annual revenue within five to seven years. Some that are already named include digital video, the digital home, security, optical networking, storage area networking, wireless, hosted small business and IP telephony. Most of the Advanced Technologies so far have been winners, with security and IP telephony already generating $1 billion in revenue yearly. Optical networking is the only advanced technology that Chambers and other Cisco executives admit has been a disappointment. But Chambers said that too much success might not be a good thing as Cisco makes the transition into new markets. “I think our success rates in the Advanced Technologies (have) been too high,” he said.

ATamp;T Study: More Than 25 Percent of US Companies Are Unprepare…
Free with registration – PR Newswire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 20, 2006
-based companies do not have adequate plans in place to cope with natural or other potential disasters. Despite the devastating effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, nearly half of the 1,000 companies polled by ATT also said that they do not take specific protective actions even when state or federal governments issue warnings for an impending disaster, such as severe weather. For those companies hit with recent disasters, nine percent indicated that it cost about $500,000 a day or more in repairs and loss of business, which translates to.

Are You Ensuring The Security of Your Keys?
CTR – Jun 20, 2006
Data compromise and exposure hurts a company?s brand leaving others wondering if they?ll be next and how they can prevent such an event from happening in the first place. To provide protection from these attacks, most companies have secured their systems and network from outsiders, implementing perimeter-based security strategies with firewalls and virtual private networks (VPNs) to ensure that external users without proper authorization cannot access sensitive data. However, companies are now looking beyond traditional perimeter-based security methods to secure data and are focusing on securing the data residing on the storage within their organizations (data at rest) and data moving between their systems on the network and storage devices (data in flight). This is known as storage security. Typically, storage security includes three components:

Authentication

Access control

Encryption

Authentication ensures that users and systems are who they say they are… Data compromise and exposure hurts a company?s brand leaving others wondering if they?ll be next and how they can prevent such an event from happening in the first place. To provide protection from these attacks, most companies have secured their systems and network from outsiders, implementing perimeter-based security strategies with firewalls and virtual private networks (VPNs) to ensure that external users without proper authorization cannot access sensitive data. However, companies are now looking beyond traditional perimeter-based security methods to secure data and are focusing on securing the data residing on the storage within their organizations (data at rest) and data moving between their systems on the network and storage devices (data in flight). This is known as storage security. Typically, storage security includes three components:

Authentication

Access control

Encryption

Authentication ensures that users and systems are who they say they are. Access control limits the ability of the user or system to access data. Encryption is the process of scrambling data to prevent unauthorized persons from reading it, and has two primary components: the encryption algorithm and the key.