Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Digital Imaging Resources Executes Letter of Intent for Acquisition…
- Safestore Tops its Century with New Self Storage Facility in Guildford…
- Enterprise IT Planet: Storage Resources for the Enterprise IT…
- Iron Mountain acquires RMS Services for records management

Digital Imaging Resources Executes Letter of Intent for Acquisition…
Free with registration – PR Newswire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Oct 10, 2007
, (“Digital” or the “Company”) (BULLETIN BOARD: DGIR) announced today that it has entered into a Letter of Intent with Boomerang Systems, Inc. (“Boomerang”) for the acquisition of Boomerang by Digital. Boomerang is engaged in the design, development, and initial marketing of automated racking and retrieval systems for automobile parking and automated racking and retrieval of containerized self-storage units. The transaction is subject to, among other things, the preparation and execution of a definitive Merger Agreement. If completed, Digital will issue 200,000,000 pre reverse split shares of Common Stock which will result the stockholders of Boomerang holding approximately.

Safestore Tops its Century with New Self Storage Facility in Guildford…
PR Web – PR Web (press release) – Oct 10, 2007
The store is 49,500 sq ft and has space for more than 700 customers. Apart from standard storage rooms ranging from 10 sq ft lockers to 325 sq ft prime business storage rooms, a few modern and bright offices are also available to let in this brand new building. Another feature of the Guildford self storage centre is a carpeted floor which gives the storage centre a unique homely touch for its customers. It is a major milestone for the company and hard not to get excited about this smart new store," says UK marketing manager Jonas Witt, adding that it is managed by one of companys most senior store managers. Two months later Safestore opened its 101st storage facility in Eastbourne (…
Apart from standard storage rooms ranging from 10 sq ft lockers to 325 sq ft prime business storage rooms, a few modern and bright offices are also available to let in this brand new building. Another feature of the Guildford self storage centre is a carpeted floor which gives the storage centre a unique homely touch for its customers. It is a major milestone for the company and hard not to get excited about this smart new store," says UK marketing manager Jonas Witt, adding that it is managed by one of companys most senior store managers. Two months later Safestore opened its 101st storage facility in Eastbourne (.

Enterprise IT Planet: Storage Resources for the Enterprise IT…
Enterprise IT Planet – Oct 10, 2007
The Palo Alto, Calif. -based virtualization software company on Monday announced updates to its mainstay VMware Infrastructure software, including VMware ESX Server 3. 5 and VirtualCenter 2. Set to be available sometime “later this year” the software will include new features VMware said will make life much easier for datacenters managers. As companies struggle to find new ways to cut datacenter costs and reduce energy consumption, virtualization software providers like VMware, Virtual Iron and XenSource,…
Virtualization software enables IT managers to cram multiple computing environments onto one computer, allowing one physical server to perform the function of multiple servers. According to Bogomil Balkansky, VMware’s senior director of product marketing, its latest iteration takes virtualization to the next level by simplifying the process of moving data from one storage array to another in the datacenter. “For the past four years, VMotion has been the lynchpin or cornerstone of our software,” he said in an interview with InternetNews. “It migrates live, running virtual machines from one physical machine to another giving users degrees of flexibility they’ve never had before. Now we’re doing the same thing for storage.

Iron Mountain acquires RMS Services for records management
ComputerWeekly.com – Oct 10, 2007
But, he said RMS and Iron Mountain services usually show up in different departments of those hospitals. RMS CEO Ed Santangelo will become president of Health Information Services Consulting for Iron Mountain, and RMS’ approximately 400 employees will be retained, Rempe said. Storage companies have been moving into records management, going back to EMC’s 2003 acquistion of Documentum. bought records management firm MDY Group International Inc. picked up Daticon LLC last year.