Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Sovran Self Storage acquires Benderson’s Storage Pro units: New…
- Lok’nStore secures 10m [pounds sterling] sale.
- Lok’n Store sells kingston site.
- Cisco And IBM Aim For Smarter Video Surveillance

Sovran Self Storage acquires Benderson’s Storage Pro units: New…
Free with registration – Buffalo News – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 31, 2007
(31-MAR-07) Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY). 31–Sovran Self Storage, the Williamsville- based company that built its Uncle Bob’s chain into one of the biggest self-storage chains in the nation, is bulking up its p.

Lok’nStore secures 10m [pounds sterling] sale.
Free with registration – Property Week – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 30, 2007
Lok’nStore secures 10m [pounds sterling] sale. (30-MAR-07) Property Week.

Lok’n Store sells kingston site.
Free with registration – Investors Chronicle – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 30, 2007
Lok’n Store sells kingston site. (30-MAR-07) Investors Chronicle.

Cisco And IBM Aim For Smarter Video Surveillance
InformationWeek – Mar 30, 2007
9 billion in 2006, according to a January report from IT market research firm iSuppli. The greatest challenge to this growth isn’t the need for such technology but rather the typically conservative view that some security departments have taken with regard to technology investments and their lack of experience working with IT and networking technologies. The surveillance market is moving into the networked video surveillance, characterized by IP cameras, IP video servers, and networked video recorders, iSuppli VP of multimedia content and services Mark Kirstein wrote in his report. Companies with a pedigree in the digital video surveillance market have for a while expected all-around tech companies like Cisco and IBM to identify their market as a growth opportunity. “The technology around video has progressed enough to the point where people can do things they couldn’t do before,” Steve Goldberg, CEO and president of Vidient Systems Inc. , said in an interview. Vidient was spun out of NEC’s Computer Vision Labs in 2004…
Amag’s Symmetry Video, when integrated with Vidient SmartCatch 3. 0 behavior recognition and video analytics software, can be programmed to recognize suspicious events so security guards and personnel know the difference between a person crossing a secured parking lot or a trash can being blown by the wind. In addition to faster processor speeds and more intuitive software, companies will need greater storage capacity. To that end, CoVi Technologies and Seagate Technology on Tuesday introduced a distributed media manager for CoVi’s Crystal HD high-definition video surveillance system. The CoVi DMM-2100 and DMM-1100 series distributed media managers now feature Seagate SV35 Series 500 and 750 GB disk drives. With the addition of significantly higher storage capacities, CoVi’s video surveillance system enables the recording and playback of higher-quality video at higher frame rates. The goal of all this is to get companies and government installations to move to digital video surveillance at a faster rate.