Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- NorthStar Moving Prepares Californians for Busy Moving Season.
- Symantec Steps Into SaaS
- EMC Acquires Its Way to Juggernaut Status
- How Security Companies Sucker Us With Lemons

NorthStar Moving Prepares Californians for Busy Moving Season.
Free with registration – PR Newswire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Apr 19, 2007
As the school year wraps up, use of moving services spikes. Of all Californians intending to move in 2007, approximately 35% will do so in the three month period of June through August. The award-winning company continually seeks ways to assist its customers. Its series of moving tips helps arm consumers.

Symantec Steps Into SaaS
PC World – Apr 19, 2007
The Cupertino, Calif. -based company said that the launch of its Online Backup Service, which provides outsourced data storage and disaster recovery services to SMB customers, is merely the first piece in a wider set of offerings it will introduce dubbed Symantec Protection Network, which will eventually include a full range of hosted security tools. Hosted applications — also known as programs delivered via the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model — aim to help companies eliminate many of the overhead expenses and hassles commonly associated with consuming traditional on-premise products. By offloading maintenance and care of the security applications to the vendor, who hosts the systems online, companies no longer have to worry about keeping their various products up-to-date with the latest patches or virus signatures, or worry as much about responding to emerging attacks, Symantec executives said. Much as Salesforce. com has revolutionized the manner in which many companies utilize customer relationship management (CRM) applications with its hosted sales force automation tools, Symantec executives said the security company has big ideas for SaaS, even if it is starting out with its smallest customers first.

EMC Acquires Its Way to Juggernaut Status
eWeek – Apr 19, 2007
Despite criticism from some of its investors and from industry analysts, EMC continues to keep the acquisitions coming. The Hopkinton, Mass. , data storage and IT infrastructure giant has swallowed so many companies (31) over the past five years that it has its own. Its all part of the plan, according to EMCs stated acquisition strategy.

How Security Companies Sucker Us With Lemons
Wired News – Apr 19, 2007
The company makes a bunch of other impressive claims: The product was commissioned, and eventually approved, by the French intelligence service; it is used by many militaries and banks; its technology is revolutionary. Unfortunately, the only impressive aspect of Secustick is its hubris, which was revealed when Tweakers. There’s no data self-destruct feature…
The password protection can easily be bypassed. The data isn’t even encrypted. As a secure storage device, Secustick is pretty useless. On the surface, this is just another.