Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Angel Investors Moving Upmarket
- Nexsan announces its Assureon NX archive appliance
- Fujifilm announces availability of DLTtape S4 media

Angel Investors Moving Upmarket
BusinessWeek – Mar 29, 2007
)Surfing on the JobAll that online shopping, monitoring of sporting events, and other non-work-related Internet usage costs the average 100-employee company about $100,000 annually in lost productivity, says Matthew Sonfield, a professor at Hofstra University, in a research paper. In addition, there are "potential legal liabilities or negative publicity—along with exposure to viruses and a burden on IT costs for bandwidth, leased lines, storage, and printers. Yet "non-business Internet use can also be viewed as a constructive use of recreation within the workplace, offering relief from constant work responsibilities"—something once referred to as "banana time," Sonfield says. Sonfield thinks Web-filtering software may "provide the best solution to this dilemma" by enabling "management to decide what types and amounts of Internet usage each employee may engage in. " He cites the example of Kozy Shack, a 400-employee food company, which uses such software, customized to allow each employee (except four members of top management) an hour a day of "responsible" personal Internet usage, preferably during breaks, lunch, and before or after work…
)Surfing on the JobAll that online shopping, monitoring of sporting events, and other non-work-related Internet usage costs the average 100-employee company about $100,000 annually in lost productivity, says Matthew Sonfield, a professor at Hofstra University, in a research paper. In addition, there are "potential legal liabilities or negative publicity—along with exposure to viruses and a burden on IT costs for bandwidth, leased lines, storage, and printers. Yet "non-business Internet use can also be viewed as a constructive use of recreation within the workplace, offering relief from constant work responsibilities"—something once referred to as "banana time," Sonfield says. Sonfield thinks Web-filtering software may "provide the best solution to this dilemma" by enabling "management to decide what types and amounts of Internet usage each employee may engage in. " He cites the example of Kozy Shack, a 400-employee food company, which uses such software, customized to allow each employee (except four members of top management) an hour a day of "responsible" personal Internet usage, preferably during breaks, lunch, and before or after work. Online gambling, stock trading, and porn sites are prohibited.

Nexsan announces its Assureon NX archive appliance
CTR – Mar 29, 2007
has announced its Assureon NX Easy Archive Appliance, which is an intelligent disk-based solution for the long-term storage of business-critical information for smaller enterprises, branch offices and departmental groups. The Assureon NX archive appliance brings high-end CAS (Content Addressed Storage) functionality to businesses of all sizes, Nexsan said last week. Assureon NX offers Nexsanâs Assureon Intelligent Archive System in a compact and easy-to-implement rackable appliance that is priced to accommodate smaller organizationsâ more-limited storage budgets, Nexsan of Woodland Hills, California said. The plug-and-play (PnP) Assureon NX is a simple, secure, and self healing disk-based archiving appliance for storing fixed content information, the company said. The appliance is ideal for interfacing with email archiving, medical imaging and records management, document management, e-discovery and other software applications, Nexsan added. Small enterprise, branch office and departmental users have the same requirements for long-term storage as their enterprise counterparts, according to Clipper Group of Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Fujifilm announces availability of DLTtape S4 media
CTR – Mar 29, 2007
, a provider of mid-range data storage media, has announced availability of Fujifilm-branded DLTtape S4 media cartridges from this month. Fujifilm has added Quantum Corp. âs format to expand its portfolio, Fujifilm said on Monday. The new media uses Fujifilm coating technology to provide 1,280 tracks of data across the half-inch (12…
The new media uses Fujifilm coating technology to provide 1,280 tracks of data across the half-inch (12. 65 mm) wide tape, Fujifilm said. Designed for use with Quantum DLTtape S4 tape drives, the higher capacity and increased performance of the DLTtape S4 will help to meet the needs of growing data centers, increasing storage requirements and regulatory compliance directives, the company said. Fujifilm USA based in Valhalla, New York is a U. marketing subsidiary of Fujifilm Corp. of Tokyo, Japan, that provides digital and analog photographic imaging systems, recording and storage media, and motion picture film products and services to consumers, professionals and businesses.