Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Sovran Self Storage, Inc. to Participate in Bank of America ‘Out…
- Golf tournament secures new sponsor
- Limelight Readies For Spotlight
- Sun does the impossible – blackens ink
- NCR Awards Manufacturing Contract to Solectron
- Aggressive Stock Alert! January 23, 2007.

Sovran Self Storage, Inc. to Participate in Bank of America ‘Out…
Free with registration – Business Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jan 23, 2007
(NYSE:SSS), a self-storage real estate investment trust (REIT), announced that it will be participating in the Bank of America ‘Out of the Box’ REIT Summit in New York City on Thursday, January 25, 2007. Rogers, CFO, will participate in a.

Golf tournament secures new sponsor
St. Petersburg Times – Jan 23, 2007
By BOB HARIGPublished January 23, 2007 ADVERTISEMENT Tampa Bay's PGA Tour golf tournament secured a title sponsor on Tuesday morning, entering into a six-year agreement with PODS — a Clearwater moving and storage company — that is expected to keep the tournament at the Innisbrook Resort in Palm Harbor through 2012. A PODS spokesperson confirmed that an agreement had been reached. The tournament, which had been called the Chrysler Championship the past four years, had been looking for a title sponsor for nearly a year. Without one, the event's future was in doubt beyond the March 8-11 tournament.

Limelight Readies For Spotlight
Forbes – Jan 23, 2007
It really gets down to pulling that thing off the disk. Then you cache a lot of it in RAM [random access memory]–a lot of the intelligence in our software is that caching, where you cache things in RAM, so when you get a hit, you actually serve it out of RAM than off a disk. Storage and bandwidth are cheap. What’s to stop anyone–especially big media companies–from jumping into your business?We spent six years building out a network globally where we have peering relationships with over 500 different peers, which allows us to ensure quality delivery and drive down our bandwidth costs. We’ve also built intellectual property at the software layer that’s non-trivial. You have different content types. It’s different for Flash than it is for Windows Media than it is for “http” [Web] content.

Sun does the impossible – blackens ink
Register – Jan 23, 2007
Sun sold another $125m worth of UltraSPARC T1-based systems during the quarter. That’s a massive year-over-year rise but another slight sequential increase. The company has only shipped $20m of its “Thumper” hybrid storage and server system and hopes that total to rise quite a bit in the quarters to come. The strong results left investors cheering Sun in the after-hours markets. Shares in the company were up as much as 8 per cent, as of this writing. Things remain tough for Sun moving forward as one quarter’s success immediately makes analysts and investors question if a string of profits can follow. Time for Schwartz to order some proofy pudding… The strong results left investors cheering Sun in the after-hours markets. Shares in the company were up as much as 8 per cent, as of this writing. Things remain tough for Sun moving forward as one quarter’s success immediately makes analysts and investors question if a string of profits can follow. Time for Schwartz to order some proofy pudding.

NCR Awards Manufacturing Contract to Solectron
WebWire – WebWire (press release) – Jan 23, 2007
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Solectron has been producing and assembling Teradata data warehouse servers as well as providing systems integration for NCR’s Teradata Division for seven years. “Solectron is a proven entity,” said Langos. “The company has consistently demonstrated its ability to adhere to the same global quality standards for manufacture and testing that we demand of all of our manufacturing facilities worldwide. ”

“NCR has been a valued customer for many years, and we are extremely pleased to extend our relationship,” said Doug Britt, executive vice president, Sales and Account Management, Solectron. “Our strength in manufacturing automated and self-service systems combined with our expertise in highly complex electro-mechanics, build-to-order, configure-to-order and system-level integration fits perfectly with NCR’s product line. ”

About Solectron

Solectron Corporation is one of the world’s largest providers of complete product life cycle services. Solectron offers product design and new product introduction, supply-chain management, Lean manufacturing and aftermarket services such as product warranty repair and end-of-life support to leading customers worldwide… ”

About Solectron

Solectron Corporation is one of the world’s largest providers of complete product life cycle services. Solectron offers product design and new product introduction, supply-chain management, Lean manufacturing and aftermarket services such as product warranty repair and end-of-life support to leading customers worldwide. Solectron works with the world’s premier providers of networking, telecommunications, computing, storage, consumer, automotive, industrial, medical, and aerospace and defense products. The company’s industry-leading Lean Six Sigma methodology (Solectron Production System) provides OEMs with quality, flexibility, innovation and cost benefits that improve competitive advantage. Based in Milpitas, Calif. , Solectron operates in more than 20 countries on five continents and had sales from continuing operations of $10. 6 billion in fiscal 2006.

Aggressive Stock Alert! January 23, 2007.
Free with registration – M2 Presswire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jan 23, 2007
(NASDAQ: SBEI), MasterCard Incorporated (NYSE: MA), First Marblehead Corporation (NYSE: FMD), Moody’s Corporation (NYSE: MCO). If you have taken TRADEX Global Financial Services, Inc. (OTC: TDXG) off of your radar screen, put it back on now, and watch it like a hawk! Stock Market Alerts first initiated coverage on the company, a financial services company that provides access to the U. , Canadian, European and Asian financial markets to foreign investors, last week when the company announced that it had signed a new Clearing Agreement with Interactive Brokers, Inc.