Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Rockville’s Luxe Atrium Court Hotel To Celebrate Grand Opening
- Not boxed in
- … Introduces Products in Luxembourg While Other Companies Repor…
- SGI Comes Out of Bankruptcy, Says It is Lean and Mean
- Turning Storage Opinions Into Cash
- NMI Security PLC – Final Results.
- Train of thought to logistics conclusion

Rockville’s Luxe Atrium Court Hotel To Celebrate Grand Opening
hospitalitynet.org – Oct 24, 2006
Sunburst?s hotels are branded as Comfort Inn and Suites, Best Western, Clarion Hotels, Holiday Inn Express, Quality Inn, Sleep Inn and Amerihost Inns. The Company recently broke ground on the 252-unit residential condominium project, The Vista on Courthouse, located in Arlington, Virginia, which is scheduled for completion in 2008,… Sunburst is committed to developing and successfully implementing strategies to maximize the value of its operating properties. MacCutcheon, the company’s CEO, has been with the company and its predecessor organizations since 1987. MacCutcheon and the executive management team have a successful record of managing ahead of industry cycles. Sunburst recognizes that its best investments are those that it makes in its people. The Company is a recognized industry leader in developing and implementing best practices in the human resources area.

Not boxed in
San Francisco Chronicle – Oct 24, 2006
tmpl –>Not boxed inYou may remember the freshman entrepreneurs behind the online file storage company,. net who used to live and work out of two Munchkin-size Berkeley cottages that resembled tornado-tossed college dorm rooms. The guys all dropped out of college to pursue the Silicon Valley dream by moving to the East Bay, where they could get free rent from 21-year-old CEO Aaron Levie’s uncle… net who used to live and work out of two Munchkin-size Berkeley cottages that resembled tornado-tossed college dorm rooms. The guys all dropped out of college to pursue the Silicon Valley dream by moving to the East Bay, where they could get free rent from 21-year-old CEO Aaron Levie’s uncle.

… Introduces Products in Luxembourg While Other Companies Repor…
Free with registration – M2 Presswire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Oct 24, 2006
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SGI Comes Out of Bankruptcy, Says It is Lean and Mean
IT Jungle – Oct 24, 2006
This could be SGI’s best chance in a number of years to get its business in gear. SGI filed for bankruptcy protection in May. The company has not been profitable on an annual basis since 1997, and was delisted from the New York Stock Exchange in November 2005. SGI has been the victim of its own strategies in the late 1990s and early 2000s, where it tried to enter new markets such as Windows workstations and commercial Unix servers without any success. By the time IT sales started to tank in 2000, SGI was left with little choice but to hunker down and try to sell its MIPS RISC-based Irix servers and build out its Linux-Itanium Altix server line as quickly as it could. Perhaps more significantly, SGI’s Altix machines were high-end boxes with big price tags, and they had a hard time competing against Xeon and Opteron clusters with InfiniBand, Myrinet, or Quadrics interconnection networks… So what is SGI going to do different now that it hasn’t already been trying to do since the Altix line was launched in January 2003? Go after a bigger slice of the server and storage pie, says Dave Parry, senior vice president and product general manager at SGI. Parry says that the new or updated products in the Altix 4700 high-end and Altix 450 midrange Itanium servers line, the Altix XE Xeon server line, and the InfiniteStorage line of NAS and SAN array lines represent 75 percent of what SGI is peddling today. New products are part of the plan, and SGI’s product line arguably looks better than it has in years. The Itanium chip has got some traction and can compete on price and performance with any Opteron or RISC alternative, and Linux is a no-brainer in the high performance market and is accepted in commercial data centers these days. But so is attacking a much larger market.

Turning Storage Opinions Into Cash
Enterprise Storage Forum – Oct 24, 2006
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Members trade the questions like stocks, and the top traders can qualify for prizes. Asked if the site could create a self-fulfilling prophecy, with the answers dictating vendors’ direction instead of simply predicting where the market might go, Ives and Pappas say they will revisit that issue in a few years “with the benefit of hindsight. ”
One top Storage Markets trader, a director of engineering at a server company who goes by the username ‘sidv,’ said the site is useful “to verify and compare my knowledge against a neutral industry backdrop. It is also very stimulating to compete with my peers on correctly ascertaining market trends. ”
Such “predictive markets” have already reaped benefits in other markets, such as entertainment and finance. “Predictive Markets work,” stated Alex Costakis, senior vice president and managing director of the.

NMI Security PLC – Final Results.
Free with registration – Europe Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Oct 24, 2006
Business Transformation Complete Following the continued deterioration and instability of the marketing services business, the Directors decided in April 2005 to dispose of that division of the company. The sale of the marketing services business was completed in September 2005, and negotiated in such a way as to minimise the loss of jobs and, therefore, redundancy costs. This left the company free to concentrate solely on its security operations. Following the marketing services sale, the company changed its name to NMI Security PLC and moved to the AIM market sector of Electronic Equipment. Business Acquisition In late 2005 the Directors elected to withdraw from the exclusive agreement with Ipix Corporation in order to avoid further obligatory stock purchases and to enable the company to approach other suppliers. At the time the relationship with the US product supplier (Ipix Corporation) was diminishing and NMI was looking for an alternate supply chain. The Directors felt that, while the Ipix product was robust and well manufactured, it was beginning to fall behind new entrants to the market in terms of both price and technological advances.

Train of thought to logistics conclusion
The Age – Oct 24, 2006
Photo: Craig Abraham Jenny WarfeOctober 24, 2006. It seems that private investorsagree there is a practical alternative to the State Government’sPort Phillip Bay channel-deepening proposal. Rather than rely on truck transport or longer shipping times tosouthern states, freight company Northline has forged an alliancewith Indonesian company Mitra Intertrans Forwarding that will cuttwo weeks from the normal shipping time between Australia and Asia,our largest trading destination. Goods will land at Darwin’s East Arm Port and be railed tosouthern states. By expediting the freight process between Asia andDarwin — then via a freight network throughout Australia— shipping delays, waterfront bottlenecks and warehousingcosts of shipping through Sydney or Melbourne will be reduced… A fully integrated inland rail network across the nation wouldprovide a solution for pressing issues in many areas, be it toomany trucks through Parkes or Yarraville, how farmers can movetheir goods more efficiently to our major trading partners in thenorth or how to save and create good Australian jobs. Let’s keep the pressure on the Government to make sure itdelivers what we want — a sustainable future in a liveablecity, state and nation. Jenny Warfe co-ordinates the Blue Wedges Coalition ofenvironmental, tourism, diving and fishing industry groups thatoppose the channel deepening. write(“email”); us.