Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Morningstar: Suit won’t halt Block 37 move
- LeftHand brews up IP SAN software
- EMC Numbers ‘Good,’ but Wall Street Expected ‘Great’.
- Demand for Personal Storage Devices to Grow
- ND onion company starts mixed veggie contracts.

Morningstar: Suit won’t halt Block 37 move
Chicago Tribune – Jul 25, 2007
Morningstar claims Mills fraudulently miscalculated the space the research firm is to lease, which it said could cost it millions of dollars. Morningstar has come to terms with the office’s current developer, Golub & Co.

LeftHand brews up IP SAN software
Register – Jul 24, 2007
SANiQ version 7, which is released today, is also available in two new packages aimed at specific needs, one for high availability and disaster recovery that’s capable of replicating to a remote site, and another with additional Windows-specific features such as VSS snapshot support, said product manager Ben Bolles. He said the new thin provisioning software automates the volume set-up process and can improve capacity utilisation from around 80 per cent to 97 per cent…
It already has its EMEA headquarters in the UK, headed by Doug Rich, ex of OuterBay, and former Quantum marketeer Henrik Hansen. Offices in the Netherlands and Scandinavia are next on the schedule, said Rich, with others to follow, including Germany, France, Italy, and South Africa. *Its founders named their new storage company over a few beers in the brewery’s tap room. The beer is quite excellent, by the way.

EMC Numbers ‘Good,’ but Wall Street Expected ‘Great’.
Free with registration – eWeek – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jul 25, 2007
–> COPYRIGHT 2007 Ziff Davis Media Inc. EMC–the world leader in several data storage hardware and software markets–keeps coming up with overall quarterly financial numbers that any business would be happy to report. But the company just can’t seem to satisfy everybody. On July 24, EMC reported record second-quarter revenue and double-digit revenue growth in its systems, software and services businesses. The company said second-quarter net income rose to $334 million, from $279 million a year earlier. Quarterly revenue rose a healthy 21 percent to $3…
But the company just can’t seem to satisfy everybody. On July 24, EMC reported record second-quarter revenue and double-digit revenue growth in its systems, software and services businesses. The company said second-quarter net income rose to $334 million, from $279 million a year earlier. Quarterly revenue rose a healthy 21 percent to $3. The company has now recorded double-digit top-line growth for 16 consecutive quarters. Still, it lost ground in its stock pricing after the numbers were announced: EMC shares fell 2.

Demand for Personal Storage Devices to Grow
PC World – Jul 24, 2007
-based market research company IDC. According to Schlichting, the proliferation of personal storage has raised interest in two areas of data management: security and backup. In terms of data protection, as network perimeters expand through the use of mobile devices carrying larger quantities of data, the likelihood of sensitive information being exposed increases, industry experts say. Just as important, HDDs carrying critical personal or corporate data must be properly backed up. Failure to do so could hamper retrieval and could in fact carry.

ND onion company starts mixed veggie contracts.
Free with registration – Agweek – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jul 24, 2007
After a production hiatus, a core group of about 15 people were rehired in the first week and an additional 15 have been newly hired, moving the company into a second shifts July 16. Kidco Farms is owned by three North Dakota farmers — Van Amundson of Jamestown, N. ; Monte Benz of Steele, N.