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- … Bronx; Six thousand units to open in next year; part of…
- Pieces of a life — bids start at $1: When a mini-storage unit is…
- A Move to Secure Data by Scattering the Pieces

… Bronx; Six thousand units to open in next year; part of…
Free with registration – Crain's New York Business – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 21, 2006
(21-AUG-06) Crain’s New York Business. Storage Deluxe Realty plans to open four large facilities there by next summer–a total of 320,000 square feet of space in 6,000.

Pieces of a life — bids start at $1: When a mini-storage unit is…
Free with registration – Saint Paul Pioneer Press – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 21, 2006
“No, the mom never came out of her coma to give them to them,” quips another. Most of the five men who show up for the public auction at Acorn Mini-Storage in Maplewood have been through this before, bringing with them flashlights, large trucks and a hefty dose of black humor. Mini-storage companies all over the country hold periodic auctions to clear out units that have gone into foreclosure; the business of bidding on the remnants of other lives is not for the faint of heart. “When I first started doing this, I really felt.

A Move to Secure Data by Scattering the Pieces
New York Times – Aug 21, 2006
So what began as a home improvement project culminated in a system called Cleversafe, with potential applications far beyond Mr. Gladwin’s memorabilia. For companies and government agencies trying to secure networked data, it offers a simple way to store digital documents and other files in slices that can be reassembled only by the computers that originally created the files. The idea of distributed data storage is not new. But Cleversafe is significant because it is an open-source project – that is, the technology will be freely licensed, enabling others to adopt the design to build commercial products. That approach may contribute to Cleversafe’s potential to lower the cost of reliably storing data on the Internet. “If we distributed data around the world this way, it would be a pretty resilient way to store data,” said David Patterson, a computer scientist at the… “Our focus is something that people can use. “A storage industry analyst said that such an approach had significant potential. “The great thing about storage is that it’s always a moving target,” said Michael Dortch, principal business analyst at the Robert Frances Group, an industry consulting organization. industry is littered with the bodies of people who have said solution X will never fly. “The Cleversafe project, with 25 employees, is housed on the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.