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- Manpower crunch, lack of awareness affect CRO
- DataCore’s New SANsymphony Enterprise Edition 6.0 and ‘Virtual…
- Art Deco icon goes on the market
- Posts tagged Education at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

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Press-Enterprise – Feb 17, 2007
Despite those efforts and working with CA early on, the Palm Desert company has had little revenue. “I don't come into the office, 'Hey, I backed up my computer this weekend!' Let's face it, it's buying insurance,” said Dave Reinsel, director of storage hardware research for Massachusetts-based market researchers IDC. “Most of us know we need to back our stuff up, but how many of us really do?”While businesses paid $29 billion to storage device companies in 2006, Reinsel said, online consumer backup is still catching on. In 2005, publicly traded Spare Backup earned $23,920 but its net losses amounted to $7. In the first three quarters of 2006, Spare Backup earned $47,558 but still had net losses equaling $15…
“It's an evolution of us maturing as a company. ” It's a similar philosophy to how virus software is packaged, Perle said. The company doubled its size recently moving from a second-floor office behind Palm Desert's El Paseo to an office on Fred Waring Drive for 42 tech support technicians, nine developers and one network administrator. Vice President of Operations Ivor Newman said customers are mostly service desk subscribers. To access the backup data, subscribers answer three security questions and enter their e-mail address and “Spare Key” password. Stored backup data ends up in three locations: Scottsdale, Ariz. , Chicago and New Jersey.

Manpower crunch, lack of awareness affect CRO
Economic Times – Feb 17, 2007
General hospitals do not have adequate infrastructure tosupport the activity, thus causing a slump in the industry growth,â hesaid. According to a Ma Foi Consulting official, âit is anupcoming industry and trained manpower is extremely difficult to find. Areaslike site and data management, clinical research, logistic support and storagemanagement need skilled personnel. â There are around 100-oddgovernment and privately-owned Indian hospitals, engaged in global and localclinical trials. Industry observers anticipate an exponential increase and totouch an estimated 14,000 hospitals, five lakh doctors, seven lakh beds and200-odd medical colleges by 2010. RPG Life Sciences managing directorArvind Vasudeva said increased research and development activities would triggera higher demand for clinical trial services. The huge patient population inIndia provides a massive test pool for pharmacompanies…
Typically, entry level fetches a CROspecialist Rs 25,000 to Rs 30,000 per month, said Chennai-based Trivitronmanaging director G S Velu. Stating that the CRO business isconcentrated in Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Delhi, Pune, he said Chennai isthe sixth player in an Indian market, estimated to be Rs 300 crore to Rs 400crore. âPharma companies are moving away from CRO and positioningthemselves as site management organisations (SMOs), as it is an activity thatinvolves protocol development, monitoring besides R and D,â hesaid. The SMO activity has generated Rs five crore for his company,which has clinical research routed from hospitals like Ram Chandra, M S Ramiahand Meenakshi Mission. According to an official of a Chennai-basedCRO firm, which is a subsidiary of a $600 million global pharma R & Dcompany CRO, it is mandatory for all pharma clinical research to strictly followgovernment-issued GCP guidelines. âCRO is a highly-capitalintensive sector, requiring sophisticated instruments for evaluation of drugsubstances. Expedited customs clearance of clinical trial materials and frozenbiological samples will provide a great opportunity for the CRO companies togrow and provide much needed service to pharma companies,â headded.

DataCore’s New SANsymphony Enterprise Edition 6.0 and ‘Virtual…
sys-con.com – Feb 17, 2007
This milestone sets a foundation for the future and advances the art of SAN data protection, automation, interoperability and usability. It also builds on the many lessons learned from DataCore Software’s thousands of deployments and users. Data center and IT managers have always wanted to manage their storage infrastructures at a high level, instead of administering physical devices at the component or detail level. With SANsymphony 6. 0, enterprises finally gain control of their resources at the right level and can truly master their SANs, safeguard their data and assure Quality of Service (QOS) through an agile, efficient and dynamic storage infrastructure that is radically simple to operate. Redefining Storage Management & Laying a Foundation for the Future"Storage virtualization is a game for experienced players. During the six plus years that DataCore has been in business they did the basics and learned a lot from their customers…
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Art Deco icon goes on the market
Hawke's Bay Today – Feb 17, 2007
The Ahuriri property was formerly used to manufacture tobacco products, but with BAT relocating its production operation to Sydney last year, the site, which covers 4. 6ha of land and 38,203 sq m of buildings – is now surplus to requirements. The property consists of 33 separate titles and contains one of Hawke’s Bay’s most well-known buildings, the heritage-listed National Tobacco Company building, formerly known as the Rothmans building. Bayleys Real Estate will market the property which BAT has owned for more than 70 years, by international tender, closing April 30. Potential purchasers can tender for one or more of seven individual parcels of land containing a variety of buildings. Six of the parcels are for sale with vacant possession. A seventh, containing three warehouses used by BAT as its national distribution centre, will be sold with either a lease back to the company or a deferred settlement…
Bayleys’ Geoff Graham said extensive road frontages separate the various parcels of land which contain an assortment of buildings that could be utilised as self contained complexes. He said it is expected to attract interest from developers, investors and owner occupiers. Buildings include the main factory complex, totalling more than 9000 sq m, a two-level administration building constructed in the early 1970s, and a wide variety of storage and warehouse buildings. One of the earliest buildings established on the site was The National Tobacco Company building, completed in 1933. It is regarded as one of the most elaborately detailed buildings in Napier and has a Category One Historic Places Classification and an Art Deco Trust supreme award. It was designed by Louis Hay, a leading architect of the era, in the Chicago School style with the front featuring Art Nouveau and Art Deco touches. Mr Graham says both the exterior and interior of the building have been kept in immaculate condition by BAT.

Posts tagged Education at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
tuaw.com – Feb 18, 2007
The person I was talking to couldn’t tell me what, exactly, but he said that they were looking at community feature requests. Naturally, my next question was “well, what features have people requested?” The answers surprised me. Among the most requested features is on-site storage. This was a little bit of a shock, since one of the selling points for me was letting Apple handle the potentially multi-terabyte storage requirements and not worring about managing–not to mention funding–a SAN of that size myself. I can understand, though, that people want to keep control of their own information, and have on-site backups, etc. Closely following that was e-commerce capability. Again, a bit of a surprise…
The $900 replacement for the eMac differed from the baseline consumer model only in its loss of superdrive, dedicated graphics, bluetooth, and Front Row caused a big stir with students heading back to school this fall. Rumor in the ether is that this is par-for-the-course for an education product release. The cycle goes like this: Product is announced >> lots of people get excited and order it >> Apple realizes that if they keep getting orders at the current pace, they won’t be able to supply the institutional buyers who they originally targeted >> Apple pulls product from mainstream consumer stores >>.