Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Make Business Easy With Smartbox
- Orland Hills center gets supersized
- Symantec outgrows underground nuclear bunker
- HP Takes a Holistic Approach to Reinventing Services Business
- Paper Source moving and expanding HQ

Make Business Easy With Smartbox
Scoop.co.nz – Scoop.co.nz (press release) – Jun 20, 2007
One US study foundthat using a storage company such as Smartbox savedbusinesses up to 75 per cent of their moving time comparedwith traditional self storage. “With today’s busyworking environments, more and more companies are demandinggoods and services that save them time and effort andprovide value for money,” says Mr Phillips. “Smartboxtakes the hassle out of storage as it delivers the storageunit directly to the office, eliminating the hassle anddouble handling and reducing the cost of transporting thegoods to a facility. ”Up to 1400kg of weight can beloaded into each Smartbox, which measures 13 cubic metres insize and can fit 85 archive boxes packed with paper. Fromjust $5 per MoreSmartbox per day, including deliveryand pick up, Smartbox will deliver a secure storage unitstraight to your business.

Orland Hills center gets supersized
Chicago Tribune – Jun 20, 2007
HEITMAN FUND: A new real estate investment fund established by Chicago-based Heitman LLC that raised $800 million in equity is scouring the country looking for new properties. It expects to invest about $2. 4 billion in offices, housing, industrial, retail and specialty buildings, such as medical offices and self-storage, said Maury Tognarelli, Heitman’s president and chief executive. “We’re still in the formation stages, and so far the fund has committed or invested 41 percent of its equity capital,” he said. The changing debt market, in which interest rates have been rising and lending criteria tightening, “has a mixed effect on us,” he said. “To the extent that the competition needs more leverage than we do, we should have an advantage,” Tognarelli said. But “overall, our debt should cost more, and that will impact pricing…
Green Building Council for the headquarters complex that it occupied last fall. The company won the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design designation for the complex, which was designed by Atlanta-based Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback and Associates. Some features that helped the drugmaker qualify for the award include: preferred parking for low-emission vehicles and carpools; bicycle storage and changing facilities; water-efficient fixtures and irrigation; an insulated glass-curtain wall facade; raised floor system; energy-efficient lighting, stairways lit by skylights; and the use of construction materials with recycled content. ———-sdiesenhouse@tribune.

Symantec outgrows underground nuclear bunker
InfoWorld – Jun 20, 2007
The nuclear shelter may have been good public relations for a security company, but it wasn’t comfortable: It lacked windows and had “sanitation” problems, company officials said. On Wednesday, Symantec offered a tour of its new facility in Reading to journalists, analysts, and customers. The facility, formerly used by storage company Veritas, which Symantec acquired in 2005, has twice as much space as the bunker and was needed to accommodate Symantec’s growth. Symantec now has under one roof its consultancy, moved from Maidenhead, England, to the new facility, and its SOC, a move that will help dealing with customers, said Arthur Wong, senior vice president of Symantec Managed Security Services. Symantec only allowed visitors a brief peak at the SOC analysts working on Wednesday through a glass window with parted blinds. Those analysts sift through reports that note suspicious events on different companies’ networks. Although much analysis of the log reports is automated, humans are still needed to look at data, said Alan Osborne, senior manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa operations.

HP Takes a Holistic Approach to Reinventing Services Business
eWeek – Jun 20, 2007
However, the Palo Alto, Calif. , company is also looking to reconfigure how it handles services in the wake of its growth and acquisitions. In the past years, HP has been buying up software companies, including. 4 billion purchase that expanded the companys management software offerings. Now, after companies such as Mercury and…
And the spending to expand its technology portfolio is continuing, as evidenced on the second day of forum, when HP announced it would buy SPI Dynamics, maker of Web application security software. Because of the number of options HP now has to offer, it is looking to reinvent the way it packages and offers its services, which has been a major theme running through this years forum. In his keynote address, CEO Mark Hurd addressed the problem that HP has been dealing deal with since becoming so large—moving beyond its traditional roots as a hardware company toward more software and services. It has been forced to think of new ways to tackle its own internal infrastructure, while keeping its core customers up to date. Nina Buik, president of Encompass, HPs largest user group with 16,000 members, said HPs expanding portfolio and additional services have led to some confusion among her members, although the group is working to bring feedback to the company. The goal, Buik said, is to take concepts such as HPs adaptive infrastructure technology and specifically spell out what the technology will mean for systems managers.

Paper Source moving and expanding HQ
Crain's Chicago Business – Jun 20, 2007
is moving its headquarters to a larger space just west of the River North neighborhood as the company gears up for a major expansion. Paper Source signed a 10-year lease for 118,000 square feet, most of which will be used for warehousing and manufacturing, at 410 N.