Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Storage Adviser | Mario Apicella | October 2006 | InfoWorld
- AMERCO Schedules Second Quarter Earnings Release and Investor Call
- Q2 2007 Adaptec, Inc. Earnings Conference Call – Final.
- EMC Announces Major Product Updates

Storage Adviser | Mario Apicella | October 2006 | InfoWorld
InfoWorld – Oct 30, 2006
Could the predictive market approach be useful to storage? John Ives, president and co-founder of. “This is really a tough industry,” Pappas points out. “If I am a semiconductor company, today I am making funding decisions that [will] impact my product line up to three or four years from now… I will probably touch only a minuscule percent of those files, but deleting them is out of the question. Not until they are, say, 3 years old or more. Perhaps move them to a different device? That’s easy to say, but manually inspecting and moving almost 17,000 files in about 1,400 folders (that’s just the data, without OS stuff) is not my idea of fun. Besides, I would probably reach the end of my life long before reaching the end of that list. Wouldn’t be great to have that process automated? Wouldn’t be wonderful to have a small program to do the legwork? I would only set my criteria and voila, my laptop drive would come out of that slim and fit like a model. Better, yet, that process should replace the original file with a stub pointing at the new file location, so that I won’t have to change the way I work. I would still look at, say, the NetApp folder and either the file I want or a shortcut to it would still be thereWell, this story has a happy ending: I found a.

AMERCO Schedules Second Quarter Earnings Release and Investor Call
primezone.com – Oct 30, 2006
comFor further analysis of quarterly results, please refer the Company’s quarterly report on Form 10-Q, which AMERCO plans to file on or before November 8, 2006. AMERCO is the parent company of U-Haul International, Inc. , North America’s largest do-it-yourself moving and storage operator, AMERCO Real Estate Company, Republic Western Insurance Company and Oxford Life Insurance Company. With a network of over 15,400 locations in all 50 United States and 10 Canadian provinces, the Company has the largest consumer truck-rental fleet in the world, with over 93,000 trucks, 80,675 trailers and 33,500 towing devices. U-Haul has also been a leader in the storage industry since 1974, with more than 377,000 rooms and approximately 33 million square feet of storage space at nearly 1,050 owned and managed facilities throughout North America. Certain of the statements made in this press release regarding our business constitute forward-looking statements as contemplated under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

Q2 2007 Adaptec, Inc. Earnings Conference Call – Final.
Free with registration – Fair Disclosure Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Oct 30, 2006
In fact, I have been quite impressed with the Adaptec operations and the Sanmina-SCI teams, in terms of their ability to work together so efficiently and quickly to correct the serious product delivery issues that plagued us last quarter. We still have some process issues to correct in order to improve efficiency and flexibility in our supply chain, but overall, we feel very good about where we are today. I feel confident that by working together we can maintain availability of Adaptec products moving forward and start to achieve supply chain cost efficiencies in the next few quarters. Our improved results are also attributed to an increase in channel revenues. We continue to drive aggressive channel programs, especially around our products that are based on serial technologies. To date, the Company has shipped more than 1. 3 million serial-attached SCSI and serial ATA products.

EMC Announces Major Product Updates
IT Directors – Oct 30, 2006
The updatedstorage systems feature the latest advanced technology to offerorganizations state of the art functionality combined withintegrated, single-source service and support. Key productsannouncements include:The Symmetrix DMX-3 model 950, a new entry point into high-endstorage that features up to 70% improved power efficiency thanalternatives, through densely packaged capacity, performance, andfunctionality. It includes full DMX-3 capabilities and is targetedat space- and power-constrained data centers and as part of abusiness continuity strategy using EMC SRDF (synchronous andasynchronous) remote data mirroring solutions. The new EMC Navisphere Quality of Service Manager software,which enables allocation of CLARiiON resources to meet applicationservice levels, as well as featuring a wizard-based management toolto ease configuration of the array while reducing the number ofcommon configuration steps by up to 70%… It might be easy to chalk this up assimply an ease of use improvement; however, it actually illustratesfurther movement towards automation at the configuration level. Given that the rote and mundane are breeding grounds for boredomand oversight, we see this application of a wizard to exactly theright approach: automate and checklist as much as possible so as tominimize human error, but also save the humans for mentallychallenging endeavors. Further, with the Navisphere Quality of Service Manager,organizations can continue moving towards a service-driveninfrastructure that matches application and storage performancewith desired levels of resource expenditure. This, combined withthe latest CLARiiON systems supporting Fibre Channel and iSCSI,allows organizations to create two-tiered storage environmentsusing Fibre connectivity for the highest performance while takingadvantage of the low-cost nature of iSCSI for second-tier storage.