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- ShoreTel and Customers Hitachi Consulting and Sovran Self Storage to…
- ‘Angels’ adopt 211 ‘Charlies’ in Iraq: Point Place…
- NetApp(R) SnapManager(R) 4.0 for Exchange Server 2007 Now Available.(C…
- EMC Corporation at Credit Suisse Annual Technology Conference – Part…
- RealMoney Radio Recap: Pfizer … Pfft!
- Governor Rendell Announces $2.6 Million Investment in Rail Infrastruct…
- Xilinx, Inc. at Credit Suisse Annual Technology Conference – Final.

ShoreTel and Customers Hitachi Consulting and Sovran Self Storage to…
Free with registration – Business Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Nov 30, 2006
– ShoreTel[TM], Inc. , the fastest growing IP PBX company worldwide and the leader in customer satisfaction, today announced its customers’ participation in multiple panel presentations at VON Enterprise 2006 (December 4-6, Cobb Galleria, Atlanta, GA). ShoreTel customers Hitachi Consulting, the business and IT consulting company of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT), and Sovran Self Storage, Inc. (NYSE: SSS), a self-storage real estate investment trust (REIT), will discuss their experience selecting, installing, and managing IP-based communications technology across their companies. In addition, ShoreTel will be taking the stage to discuss the decision-making process that enterprises face when making a switch from traditional phone service to VoIP. Michael Shisko, director.

‘Angels’ adopt 211 ‘Charlies’ in Iraq: Point Place…
Free with registration – Blade – AccessMyLibrary.com – Nov 30, 2006
Sean Cousino, who is stationed in Baghdad. But the resident of Toledo’s Point Place neighborhood was having some misgivings. What about the other 210 soldiers stationed with her son in C Company, 126th Infantry? Would some of them feel left out or depressed if her son received a holiday package and they didn’t? Mrs. Cousino said she gave the situation some thought and by October settled on a solution: “I just said, ‘I’ll send one to them all. ‘–” Her goodwill effort materialized yesterday morning in a colossal shipment of 211 cardboard boxes from the Postal Service’s Toledo Franklin Park Station in Sylvania Township that took more than five hours to process.
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NetApp(R) SnapManager(R) 4.0 for Exchange Server 2007 Now Available.(C…
Free with registration – Business Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Nov 30, 2006
NetApp SnapManager 4. 0 for Exchange, which supports both NetApp Fibre Channel (FC) and iSCSI-based IP SAN (storage area network) solutions, helps customers dramatically reduce the administrative overhead of backing up Exchange Server databases. With the availability of these products, NetApp is helping Exchange Server 2007 customers achieve near-instantaneous, granular recovery of Exchange Server data without a prohibitive Co and expensive.
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EMC Corporation at Credit Suisse Annual Technology Conference – Part…
Free with registration – America's Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Nov 30, 2006
All right? You have got pure plays; server vendors; and then let’s call them niche players. How do you see that evolving over kind of a longer-term period, maybe five to 10 years? Maybe specifically at the niche level, is there a potential for someone to come in and become the next EMC? DAVE DONATELLI: Yes, you know, having been in the business a long time, there has always, as long as I have been in the business, 20 to $50 million storage companies. I think there will always be 20 to $50 million storage companies. If you look at our level, which is an $11 billion company, I think the challenge is — just kind of what I laid out here — is that to really have solutions that people need, the requirements keep going up. It is no longer just the hardware. It is the hardware with the software and these total solutions. So I think while there will always be some niche players out there, I think it is going to be very difficult, because of how much R&D expertise and money is required.

RealMoney Radio Recap: Pfizer … Pfft!
thestreet.com – Nov 30, 2006
Pfizer is ramping today because it came out and said it is having a “giant upside surprise. ” But this is not true, Cramer said. In fact, the company has fired a lot of people and is in a moment in time where it is trying to “create an upside surprise by lowering its bar,” he said. “Pfizer is a challenged company,” Cramer said, adding that there are a lot of drug stocks worth owning more, such as Merck (.

Governor Rendell Announces $2.6 Million Investment in Rail Infrastruct…
Free with registration – PR Newswire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Nov 30, 2006
“Rail is an increasingly popular means of moving goods, not only throughout Pennsylvania, but into the global marketplace. These grants will boost the local economy and job markets, complimenting our investments in the education and the environment that are making Pennsylvania an even better place to live and work. ” Through the state’s investment in these projects, 157 jobs will be created and 2,767 jobs will be maintained. Without this rail service, there would be 211,067 more truck trips on Pennsylvania’s highways each year… Marys, Elk County, is an excellent example of the relationship between expanded rail service and new economic development opportunities. The company manufactures UHP graphite electrodes used in steel production.

Xilinx, Inc. at Credit Suisse Annual Technology Conference – Final.
Free with registration – America's Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Nov 30, 2006
: About a year and a half ago. MICHAEL MASDEA: A year and a half ago? And before that at Intel for a quarter of a century or so? JON OLSON: Yes, a long time with those guys. MICHAEL MASDEA: A lot of experience in the industry. We’re looking forward to hearing his presentation, and then we will have Q&A after that. JON OLSON: Alright. Thank you very much, Michael, for having me here today, and it is a pleasure to be here to speak with you.