Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Safeland PLC – Interim Results.
- Q&A: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer On The Imminent Vista, Office,…
- BakBone brushes up replication software
- Symantec Chalks Up Third Successive Frost & Sullivan Company…
- Mendocino Introduces ‘Virtual Views’ of Production Data.(Mendo…
- Symantec Chalks Up Third Successive Frost & Sullivan Company of…
- Morning Updates for Wednesday, November 22, 2006 Featuring TRADEX…

Safeland PLC – Interim Results.
Free with registration – Europe Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Nov 22, 2006
Included in the profit is AGBP3. 57m in respect of the sale of the company’s shares in Bizspace Plc details of which were included in my statement accompanying the accounts for the year ended March 31 2006. Also included is the loss in respect of Espazio, the Italian self storage company, of AGBP242,000 (2005: AGBP331,000). Revenue has gone up from AGBP10. 5m and the company will not be declaring a dividend. Net asset value per share at September 30 2006 is 114p compared with 111p as at both September 30 2005 and March 31 2006.

Q&A: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer On The Imminent Vista, Office,…
InformationWeek – Nov 22, 2006
SharePoint seems to be one of those examples where it’s able to do both. Ballmer: That’s right. We have hosted SharePoint as part of the Office Live offering today. There will [also] be a level of customization and self-management and security that people want to do; I think that will be very common where people want to manage their own SharePoint… We have hosted SharePoint as part of the Office Live offering today. There will [also] be a level of customization and self-management and security that people want to do; I think that will be very common where people want to manage their own SharePoint. You can say, “Do most companies want to send all of their important company information outside the. IW: Microsoft is aggressive in what it tries to get into its new products, but not everything makes it in.

BakBone brushes up replication software
ComputerWeekly.com – Nov 22, 2006
0′s updates include a new and separate Windows-based GUI, which one user, Matthew Wenzler, product manager for Secure-24, a managed services provider in Southfield, Mich. , said will make a big difference in his environment. Secure-24, which manages close to 1 petabyte (PB) of storage, as well as servers, security and disaster recovery for its customers, has been using BakBone’s replication product for Linux environments but still has Double-Take for Windows. 0, Wenzler said, his “level 1″ support personnel — those who work on end-user helpdesk tickets — will have an interface they can work with… BakBone’s NetVault Backup software was recently the surprise winner of Storage magazine and Diogenes Labs’ backup software Quality Awards, which included the enterprise. Secure-24 is another example of a large company looking at moving to BakBone from more established players. According to Wenzler, the company is using EMC Corp. storage, and still uses EMC’s Legato software for backups. He said that since switching from EMC’s RepliStor to BakBone’s Replicator earlier this year because of issues replicating from clustered servers, the company is testing NetVault Backup in an effort to centralize all its software products on one vendor.

Symantec Chalks Up Third Successive Frost & Sullivan Company…
Free with registration – PR Newswire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Nov 22, 2006
Its unique vision centred around secure storage and business continuity, increasing revenues, profits and market share, together with its channel strength, dedicated marketing efforts and growing reputation in the enterprise space underline Symantec’s receipt of this award for the third consecutive year. Subsequent to its merger with Veritas, Symantec nearly doubled in size during 2005. Due to its newly acquired capabilities around storage.

Mendocino Introduces ‘Virtual Views’ of Production Data.(Mendo…
Free with registration – eWeek – AccessMyLibrary.com – Nov 22, 2006
(Mendocino Software, InfiniView, data acquisition software) Mendocino Software on Nov. 21 introduced InfiniView, a new software product that enables customers to create and use one or more data images–or “virtual views”–of current production data for a number of concurrently running functions. Those uses may include rapid application recovery, testing, development, data analytics, reporting, data staging or any off-host processing tasks where conventional copy technologies like backup and snapshots had previously been used, a company spokesperson said. Unlike traditional snapshot or point-in-time technology, InfiniView’s virtual views do not require additional storage space, are not tied to a particular file system, volume manager, operating system, storage.

Symantec Chalks Up Third Successive Frost & Sullivan Company of…
Earthtimes – Nov 22, 2006
A market leader not just inEurope but globally as well, Symantec is acclaimed for offering the mostcomprehensive perimeter security offering in the industry. Its unique visioncentred around secure storage and business continuity, increasing revenues,profits and market share, together with its channel strength, dedicatedmarketing efforts and growing reputation in the enterprise space underlineSymantec’s receipt of this award for the third consecutive year. Subsequent to its merger with Veritas, Symantec nearly doubledin size during 2005. Due to its newly acquired capabilities around storagefollowing this move, the company made a successful transition from aconsumer-focused company to an enterprise leader and emerged as a reliableenterprise partner of data integrity. “In EMEA, the company continues to progressively strengthenits position both in the consumer and enterprise spaces,” says Frost &Sullivan Industry Manager Jose Lopez. “In 2005, EMEA contributed almost athird of the company’s revenues, with Symantec’s outstanding performanceconsolidating its position as the largest and most successful securitycompany in the region, well ahead of its competitors… Subsequent to its merger with Veritas, Symantec nearly doubledin size during 2005. Due to its newly acquired capabilities around storagefollowing this move, the company made a successful transition from aconsumer-focused company to an enterprise leader and emerged as a reliableenterprise partner of data integrity. “In EMEA, the company continues to progressively strengthenits position both in the consumer and enterprise spaces,” says Frost &Sullivan Industry Manager Jose Lopez. “In 2005, EMEA contributed almost athird of the company’s revenues, with Symantec’s outstanding performanceconsolidating its position as the largest and most successful securitycompany in the region, well ahead of its competitors. ” By assiduously building a strong local presence, the companyhas also positioned itself ahead of its competitors in the largely untappedeastern European markets. At the same time, it has continued to expand itsoperations in western Europe, the Middle East and selected African markets. “Geographical expansion has been backed by Symantec’sdistribution system, considered to be the standard-setter in the industry,”adds Mr.

Morning Updates for Wednesday, November 22, 2006 Featuring TRADEX…
Free with registration – M2 Presswire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Nov 22, 2006
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