Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Self-Storage Sec BV – Redemption.
- Their efforts sustain a lovely tintinnabulation
- BUSINESS DIGEST – Framingham, MA – The MetroWest Daily News
- Alan F. Shugart, 76, a Developer of Disk Drive Industry
- SECRETARY CHERTOFF HOLDS A NEWS CONFERENCE ON A NEW RAIL SECURITY…
- Amazon Dispute Could Put IBM Software Customers In Legal Jeopardy

Self-Storage Sec BV – Redemption.
Free with registration – Europe Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 15, 2006
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Their efforts sustain a lovely tintinnabulation
St. Petersburg Times – Dec 15, 2006
Warhurst replied, "I'll do one better than that. " But it's really closer to 250 better. Warhurst, CEO of Clearwater moving and storage company PODS Enterprises, said the company would adopt one kettle of the nearly 30 around North Pinellas. The kettles are set up six days a week from 10 a.

BUSINESS DIGEST – Framingham, MA – The MetroWest Daily News
MetroWest Daily News – Dec 15, 2006
The product could then be used to develop certain disease-fighting drugs. Epitome had already received $500,000 in Phase II SBIR funding. Iron Mountain to set up Singapore joint ventureBOSTON – Information protection and storage company Iron Mountain Inc. said yesterday it agreed to create a joint venture with Transnational Co. that will expand Iron Mountain’s presence in the Asia-Pacific region… 93 billion last year. OPEC to hold its oil output steady for nowABUJA, Nigeria – OPEC ministers agreed yesterday to hold oil production unchanged for now but set the stage for a cutback of half a million barrels a day in February. With world inventories high but moving downward and the coldest days of the Northern Hemisphere winter still ahead, the decision by the 11-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries was a compromise meant to keep markets and consumers calm at least in the short term. (Daily News and Associated Press reports).

Alan F. Shugart, 76, a Developer of Disk Drive Industry
New York Times – Dec 15, 2006
field service engineer repairing punch card accounting machines in 1951, Mr. Shugart was intimately involved in every important juncture of the computer storage industry for more than four decades. Over that time computer storage systems shrank from monsters the size of large washing machines to compact boxes that fit in the palm of the hand. At the same time, digital storage capacities soared from the equivalent of several books to whole libraries. After transferring to an I… engineers with him. In 1972 he left Memorex to found Shugart Associates, which introduced a lower-cost 8-inch form-factor floppy disk drive. The technology was intended for a new class of smaller computers that were moving outside of the corporate data center, according to Finis Conner, a longtime business partner and sometime competitor of Mr. At an early planning meeting, Mr. Conner recalled, the two men sketched out a simple graph on a napkin showing how cost would fall as volume increased. ”It was a march to mobility, taking the computing power out of the computing room and putting it into the desktop,” said Mr.

SECRETARY CHERTOFF HOLDS A NEWS CONFERENCE ON A NEW RAIL SECURITY…
Free with registration – Political/Congressional Transcript Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 15, 2006
CHERTOFF: This year alone we awarded nearly $110 million in grants for the protection of major rail systems. And we’ve also awarded more than $375 million to protect mass transit systems, including rail mass transit. We’ve been working with rail companies across the country to conduct vulnerability assessments of their facilities and of the rail corridors all around the country, including the seven-mile D. rail corridor here in Washington. We’ve worked to develop 20 best practices that rail operators should put into place, addressing a host of issues, from access control to coordinating incident response with local authorities. We’ve deployed rail inspectors all over the country to conduct security reviews and implement those best practices with industry.

Amazon Dispute Could Put IBM Software Customers In Legal Jeopardy
InformationWeek – Dec 15, 2006
“We didn’t start this fight,” he says. Keeping its sights squarely on IBM, and not its customers, is probably a smart move for Amazon. The company is itself moving into the market for enterprise middleware and. Suing potential future customers would not be the best way to announce its presence in the market.