Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Extra Storage Announces “Storage Facility for RV and Boat”
- Mango mania in India
- Microsoft Offers Free Trial of Exchange Server 2007 for Enterprise…
- Going Green… … every day by everyone

Extra Storage Announces “Storage Facility for RV and Boat”
PR.com – PR.com (press release) – Apr 22, 2007
com)– Extra Storage Riverside, located at 6455 Van Buren, is a premier self storage provider for major Southern California locations since 1986. Today they are proud to announce “the offering of outdoor Boat and RV Storage. ” The company is dedicated to maintaining safe, clean, and affordable self storage space for the valued possessions of their customers. Extra Storage provides perfect solution for those who love aquatic sports and own, or planning to buy, a boat or recreation vehicle (RV), but unable to store it, due to space shortage and community restrictions. Self storage units can help protect valuable, spacious items like RV and Boat from harsh weather conditions. The onsite managers, Nick and Sandy Lopez provide a stress-free, convenient solution for storing extra furniture or household items and possessions. Extra Storage Riverside, which is accessible 7 days a week except major holidays, facilitates their customers by offering electronic gate access from 7am to 7pm.

Mango mania in India
Asia Times Online – Apr 21, 2007
“What we are trying to create here is BPO in the agricultural sector. We will grow for the world. ” With the overseas market poised to expand significantly and the government amending the Agriculture Produce Marketing Council Act to allow corporates to produce and market mangoes, private companies are moving quickly to get a slice of the action. Reliance Industries, India’s largest private-sector company, saw opportunity early. Eight years ago, in what was really an effort to “green” its petroleum refinery complex at Jamnagar in the western Indian state of Gujarat, Reliance planted over 100,000 mango trees, producing 37 varieties of the fruit. That turned out to be a smart decision. The profit margin from mangoes was found to be very high, “far higher than that from any of the petroleum products Reliance produces”, observed Hital Meswani, executive director of Reliance Industries Group…
But this June, Reliance will be meeting 33% of Harrods’ demand. And it will also be exporting to the US this year. Other companies that are hoping to bite into the expanding export market include Godrej, India Tobacco Company, Bharati Enterprises, Jain Irrigation and Galla Foods. Some of these companies are currently in the mango juice business or processing mango pulp. They are now considering exporting fresh mangoes. Several of these companies have conducted feasibility studies in mango orchards. Japan holds out “tremendous opportunity for Indian mangoes”, according to Agricultural and Food Products Export Development Authority chairman K S Money.

Microsoft Offers Free Trial of Exchange Server 2007 for Enterprise…
WebWire – WebWire (press release) – Apr 21, 2007
Reliability is essential to the successful deployment of mission-critical solutions; Unisys ES7000 is one of the most reliable enterprise servers in the market. Microsoft is pleased to collaborate with Unisys to offer this free managed service for customers, said Peter Boit, vice president for the Enterprise and Partner Group at Microsoft. We hear from our enterprise customers they want technology solutions with built-in features to help keep their business secure, productive and moving forward. This free trial enables customers to test-drive the capabilities included in Exchange Server that address these key areas. By offering this trial with Unisys, were giving customers an opportunity to evaluate the new levels of security and mobility so they can have a firsthand account of how the technology can help their enterprise thrive. Unisys is excited to work with Microsoft on expanding the communication and collaboration experience to enterprise organizations that are seeking increased productivity and business performance benefits from Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and the integration of unified messaging, said Peter Tripp, vice president of Strategic Program Office, Global Outsourcing and Infrastructure Services at Unisys. This is a great opportunity for Unisys to leverage our deep vertical telecom expertise while helping customers realize a unified communications and collaboration platform that offers greater security, scalability and flexibility…
For enterprises today, e-mail continues to be the mission-critical communications tool that enables employees to produce the best results. Unisys is a great partner for Microsoft to team with to build and manage the Exchange Server 2007 trial service, said Jeff Parker, CEO of Directions on Microsoft. Unisys is a clear choice when considering the companys ability to build bullet-proof computing infrastructures, develop unified messaging solutions and its leadership position in the design of 64-bit platforms with its ES7000 Server. Exchange Server 2007 is the first major upgrade to Microsofts e-mail platform in nearly four years. This is the cornerstone of Microsofts huge bet on unified communications and its scalable 64-bit application. Enterprise customers with a need for greater mobility, greater e-mail storage space and reduced IT management should take advantage of the free trial service to experience the benefits of Exchange Server 2007. Exchange Server 2007 addresses these critical enterprise concerns with the following features: * Built-in protection.

Going Green… … every day by everyone
Providence Journal – Apr 22, 2007
But, now, the Sachses said, they are indeed thinking green. They are worried about what will happen if people don’t start to conserve natural resources. In the past year, they bought a Toyota Prius, a hybrid car whose rechargeable energy storage system means the car gets 45 miles per gallon of gas. They switched to paper grocery bags, added programmable thermostats, and fertilized their lawn with a non-chemical organic substance. They opted for National Grid’s Green Up program, which instructs their local utility to buy electricity from a renewable energy source, such as one using wind. They are adding curly compact fluorescent light bulbs that use less electricity and save money. The couple said that they are anxious to glean more personal energy-saving ideas from today’s observances of Earth Day…
The key thing is that we start to reduce usage,” he said. “While it’s easy to think that your contribution is insignificant, every action makes a significant difference. ”Hamburg, like the Sachses, enrolled in the electric company National Grid’s Green Up program, which lets customers buy electricity from a renewable energy (wind, solar, hydraulic or bio fuel) source. There’s a fee, about 2. 5 cents per kilowatt-hour, which works out to about between $6 and $12 monthly for a typical residential customer using 500 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity per month. “CUSTOMERS CAN INVEST in alternative energy resources,” said National Grid spokesman David Graves, who added that signing up can be done by filling out the card National Grid sends out twice a year or visiting.