Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Source: Self Storage Association
- RedEnvelope Relies on Pillar
- … Retention: an extension of your office.(Northeast Record…
- LOK N STORE (LOK).
- Amazon is reinventing the bubble

Source: Self Storage Association
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal – Apr 26, 2007
“It’ll probably wind up in the attic or in our own yard sale later,” he said. “We already have too much junk. “He has plenty of company, and the self-storage industry is reaping the benefits. According to the Self Storage Association, the business has been the fastest-growing sector of the U. commercial real estate industry over the last 30 years, based on the number of new companies, new facilities and the amount of total square footage added. The SSA says there are more than 51,000 “primary” self-storage facilities in the country, with “primary” meaning it’s the chief source of business revenue for the business owner.

RedEnvelope Relies on Pillar
Enterprise Storage Forum – Apr 26, 2007
As the company adds images and zoom technology to its Web site, the online retailer wanted to be able to present the information to all servers for use by the product development, merchandizing and marketing teams. “With NAS, we can put the data in one place and serve it to many hosts, saving time without needing to have multiple copies of images on multiple servers,” said Emel. By removing the direct-attached storage arrays and moving to the Axiom storage, RedEnvelope calculates savings of approximately $250,000. The company also has additional plans for its new storage architecture. The IT department is looking at adding a real-time application cluster from Oracle in time for the holiday season. Later in 2008, Red Envelope will bring in another Axiom unit for a back office inventory management system currently using an HP E3000 direct-attached storage unit, which has reached the end of life. “Pillar has allowed us to achieve every benchmark we set,” said Emel.

… Retention: an extension of your office.(Northeast Record…
Free with registration – New Hampshire Business Review – AccessMyLibrary.com – Apr 27, 2007
(Northeast Record Retention LLC)(Company overview) –> COPYRIGHT 2007 Business Publications, Inc. Serving more than 750 clients across four states, Northeast Record Retention LLC provides digital data storage, records storage and document-shredding services to clients in industries that include banking, law, health care, hospitality, retail, insurance, law enforcement, autos, financial services, state and municipal government, education, corrections and small business. The family-run business began in 1985 as one of the first self-storage facilities in New Hampshire and now has a total of five locations.

LOK N STORE (LOK).
Free with registration – Investors Chronicle – AccessMyLibrary.com – Apr 27, 2007
–> COPYRIGHT 2007 FT Business It feels like self-storage group Lok’n Store is having a real coming-of-age moment. The group’s strategy of building its own larger stores seems to be working, based on the strong performance at its Farnborough and Crayford stores. And the group has now put GBP40m of bank facilities in place.

Amazon is reinventing the bubble
Australian IT – Apr 26, 2007
These ambitions — and the demands of its fast-growing core retailing business — saw Amazon spend over $US1 billion in 2005 and 2006 alone on technology and infrastructure, much to the ire of institutional investors. Most of this capital expenditure was opaque to outsiders, as it is at other big internet companies that own global networks of servers, software and storage and use these to operate sophisticated online services, such as Google, Ebay and Microsoft’s MSN. Whether they are selling goods, moving email or delivering search results and ads, all these companies rely on their underlying technology infrastructure to provide a set of largely overlapping core functions — message routeing and queuing, payments and transactions, content delivery and data storage. And all have had to learn how to do all this at low cost and in a fault-tolerant way. At the same time as Amazon and its peers were figuring out the best answers to these problems, and building their various platforms to support their particular business, the concept of "web services" was also taking hold in the business and IT worlds. Although that phrase means many different things to different people, at its core is the idea that in a world where resources such as computers, storage and bandwidth are all linked together, and standards are emerging to allow different computer programs to "talk" to one another and software components to be recombined in different ways, companies no longer need to wall off their technology from the rest of the world and do everything in-house. Instead, some activities can be more efficiently or cheaply completed if they make use of services or outsourcing opportunities offered by others with existing capabilities or spare resources.