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- RBCCM and Buchanan Enter into Partnership: ‘Pricing continues to…
- Colo. firms to strut stuff at electronics trade show
- A dangerous world: new security threats demand new thinking and solid…
- Live at five: 5 reasons for the iPod’s runaway success.
- Tips for e-mail management and archiving, part 1.(FOCUS ON)
- Managing data at the edge: taming the ‘wild frontier’ of…
- Gauging volume accuracy: weight-based physics and vestiges of…

RBCCM and Buchanan Enter into Partnership: ‘Pricing continues to…
Free with registration – Origination News – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jan 1, 2007
(RBC Capital Markets and Buchanan Partners) DALLAS — RBC Capital Markets’ real estate mortgage capital unit here has entered into a partnership called Buchanan Fixed Rate Direct in which it has agreed to be the exclusive provider of commercial mortgage-backed securities for Buchanan Storage Capital. Specifically, RBC Capital Markets has agreed to finance self-storage properties through.

Colo. firms to strut stuff at electronics trade show
Denver Post – Jan 1, 2007
It would make the show worthwhile. ” Boulder-based Case Logic plans to unveil a new line of about 50 backpacks, messenger bags and luggage items suitable for hauling laptops and other electronics. The company is known for its cassette-tape and CD storage and carrying cases. “For us, it is a natural extension of our brand,” said Jeff Warde, Case Logic marketing manager. “We’ve been providing storage for cases now for 23 years. ” The Colburns operate 3D Innovations out of their garage. Their self-funded company has been around for seven years, since Kevin Colburn, a former Hewlett-Packard employee, started developing a 3-D chat room in his spare time.

A dangerous world: new security threats demand new thinking and solid…
Free with registration – Computerworld – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jan 1, 2007
Combined, these results show how IT leaders have a stronger focus than ever before on data integrity as they head into the new year. MATURATION, NOT JUST CONTINUATION To be fair, most IT executives have had an eye on these areas for many years. As a result, the way leading companies approach business continuity planning and security is evolving, increasingly moving these critical areas from project mode to more of a process mentality. “I see it as a maturation of the processes,” says Scott Laliberte, global product lead for the security assessment practice at Protiviti Inc. , a Menlo Park, Calif. -based firm that provides risk consulting and internal audit services. Several factors are contributing to this maturation, Laliberte says.

Live at five: 5 reasons for the iPod’s runaway success.
Free with registration – Macworld – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jan 1, 2007
How has the iPod managed to achieve so much so quickly? We can think of five reasons, one for each year of the music player’s existence. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1. Total Integration Before Apple released the iPod, no company really did a good job of integrating a player, a computer, and the software that connected the two. Companies such as Rio and Creative would ship someone else’s music software in the box with their player, or sometimes they would include their own homegrown software. Whatever you got played music on your Mac or PC just fine–but getting that music from the computer to the audio player was no easy thing. Transferring music to a portable player in those pre-iPod days didn’t seem like a horrible process at the time. But it took the iPod’s arrival to let us know just how bad things were… 1 to transfer songs from a computer to a player. Talk about frustration. Moving an album, let alone four or five, was an exercise akin.

Tips for e-mail management and archiving, part 1.(FOCUS ON)
Free with registration – InfoStor – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jan 1, 2007
(FOCUS ON) Although managing e-mail has become a major headache for storage administrators, who might have an overwhelming urge to delete entire mailboxes, a variety of products are available to make e-mail more manageable through technologies such as classification, de-duplication, and archiving. Such technologies make it possible for companies to retain e-mail indefinitely –while improving e-mail server performance, reducing risk from litigations, and ensuring compliance with regulatory entities. According to a report from International Data Corp. , worldwide e-mail archiving application revenue is expected to more than triple from 2006 through 2010, (see figure). Vivian Gopico-Tero, senior research analyst in IDC’s compliance infrastructure practice (and author of the report), says e-discovery is the main driver behind the 25. 8% compound annual growth rate in e-mail archiving applications revenue through 2010.

Managing data at the edge: taming the ‘wild frontier’ of…
Free with registration – Computer Technology Review – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jan 1, 2007
One of the last things an IT administrator wants to hear is that “the network” is running slow. Seen as a barometer of the overall quality of IT services, fast access to application and file data has become such a user requirement in most enterprise organizations that even a few seconds’ delay in opening a file or application can be enough to generate new calls into support. Thankfully, high-speed, high-availability networks and fast-moving networked storage architectures tend to minimize the risk of excessive user access delays for today’s corporate data center. Likewise, initiatives to consolidate and centralize server and storage resources have resulted in not just better access to files and applications, but also a better way for IT to centrally control, monitor, secure and protect the data under its care. As data centers continue to mature in their adoption of best practices for centralized, controlled data delivery within the walls of their corporate headquarters, their efforts have begun to turn to the problem child of many IT environments: The growing league of remote, geographically dispersed offices that now represent the data center’s ever-widening “edge. ” Problems at the Wild Frontier In a recent Storage World Conference session on remote branch office challenges, Taneja Group founder Arun Taneja gave some indication of the scope of the problem now facing IT.

Gauging volume accuracy: weight-based physics and vestiges of…
Free with registration – LP/Gas – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jan 1, 2007
Based on preliminary interest in the new technology, the rotary gauge could go the way of the rotary telephone dial as the propane industry strives for greater accuracy. A non-invasive sensor is advantageous because it is expensive to replace traditional level gauges due to the need to evacuate tanks, according to Greg Kerr, PERC’s director of research. “The economics of propane distribution are greatly affected by the logistics of moving product between suppliers, a marketer’s wholesale distribution facilities, the marketer’s remote bulk facilities and the end-users of propane. Typically, inventory turnover through bulk storage comprises one of the least-defined and most difficult parts of a propane marketer’s inventory management cycle during high usage periods,” Kerr says. “The propane industry will benefit financially through the reduction of inventory uncertainty in the installed base of bulk storage tanks through the availability of a low-cost non-invasive tank level sensor that will work with any telemetry system. ” Among the applicants for.