Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Fire destroys shipping containers
- Storage front-and-center in 2007
- Teams Investigate Pearl City Warehouse Fire

Fire destroys shipping containers
highbeam.com – Dec 27, 2006
Provided by ProQuest LLC. The blaze between two warehouses of Precision Moving & Storage Co. on Oihana Place was reported about 2:47 a. , said Honolulu Fire Department spokesman Capt.

Storage front-and-center in 2007
ARNnet – Dec 27, 2006
The pressure of ever-expanding data volume, puzzlement over effective backup and retrieval of email, video and voice, and concern about provisions for business continuity pose complex challenges. Storage accounts for more than 50 percent of many IT budgets and consumes more planning time than ever. Without doubt, 2007 will bring more pressure related to compliance and data retention, and users will demand ever-better data access and security. Looking on the bright side, this means that storage operations are valued more than ever before… “File storage for instance, has different requirements for performance, recoverability and scalability than customers facing web content, internal email, or mission critical database records. ”
Users tackle ILM
HDS has tiered hardware and management products for open systems, mainframes and NAS. The vendor emphasizes data replication and moving data non-disruptively across the various storage tiers, using its virtualization controllers as a front end to the external storage systems. When it comes to ILM, HDS collaborates extensively with Arkivio, StoredIQ and a number of other partners to provide a comprehensive offering. HDS’s contribution is the hardware (particularly storage devices and virtualization controllers) and the storage-resource management (its HiCommand suite, which manages discovery, tuning, tiering and a number of other storage aspects) that enable policy-based automated storage movement across storage tiers. The company also provides a suite of business-continuity tools that create data copies, replicating them across local heterogeneous tiers of storage and out to remote recovery sites. “Storage volume is growing fast, with more multimedia, video and image data,” said Fred Sheu, marketing director, Technology Solutions Group, HP HK.

Teams Investigate Pearl City Warehouse Fire
thehawaiichannel.com – Dec 27, 2006
Higa and other nearby residents walked by to see the aftermath later in the morning. By lunchtime, the stubborn fire was still burning deep inside the charred pile of rubble. The warehouse belongs to Precision Moving and Storage, a packing company that services the government and moving military families. I was pretty shocked,” Precision Moving and Storage manager Ernest Moritoma said. The blaze destroyed three trucks and roughly 1,000 empty boxes and crates, Moritoma said. It is not the first time the company has dealt with trouble.