Moving and Storage Business News

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- Self Storage Insurance – Increase Demand To Insure Household Goods in…
- … Offering Enables Resellers to Provide Complete “Archive…
- Robots Will Become Part of Daily Life
- CPL, LDK, MWE, ADG, HIHO, ISLN Have Been Added To Naked Short List…

Self Storage Insurance – Increase Demand To Insure Household Goods in…
SourceWire – SourceWire (press release) – Oct 17, 2007
Sales have come from all over the UK, illustrating the need nationally for. Figures from recent reports have highlighted the fact that the majority of self storage customers are based in the South East and London.

… Offering Enables Resellers to Provide Complete “Archive…
Open Press – The Open Press (press release) – Oct 17, 2007
Many storage vendors are introducing self managing archiving appliances which have in-built functionality to compliantly and efficiently store data in multiple copies on a variety of low-cost archiving storage media types. Because they are delivered as self-contained appliances, these systems eliminate the complexity of correctly managing an archive that smaller IT organizations and businesses are not well-equipped to address. Smaller businesses and departmental users need a simple, straightforward way of selecting and moving the right data onto these appliances without having to write separate software or management rules or be involved in lengthy integration, said Ryan Witt, senior vice president marketing and sales, BridgeHead Software. Using HT FileStore Appliance, resellers can create cost-effective, end-to-end policy based archiving solutions for their customers while doing away with much of the administrative workload that users would otherwise have to deal with, continued Witt. About BridgeHead SoftwareBridgeHead Software is focused on developing software to enhance the ways in which medium to large organizations manage their data and storage infrastructures. The goal is to help you find the most intelligent approach to investing in and deploying storage; simplifying administrative processes and optimizing scarce time and resources. A key part of the companys philosophy is remaining storage and vendor agnostic, enabling it to tie into your current and future mix of storage platforms…
About BridgeHead SoftwareBridgeHead Software is focused on developing software to enhance the ways in which medium to large organizations manage their data and storage infrastructures. The goal is to help you find the most intelligent approach to investing in and deploying storage; simplifying administrative processes and optimizing scarce time and resources. A key part of the companys philosophy is remaining storage and vendor agnostic, enabling it to tie into your current and future mix of storage platforms. By the same token BridgeHead recognizes that software solutions cannot work in isolation. They have to integrate with and maximize the underlying storage and workflow and business processes that surround your information. To address this, BridgeHead has developed strong relationships with key storage and application technology vendors and is able to deliver integrated solutions through partnerships with leading systems integrators and providers of valued added services. For more information visit: www.

Robots Will Become Part of Daily Life
ABC News – Oct 17, 2007
Technology’s interdisciplinary nature will help foster robotics advancements, the panelists said. The consumer space will create the need for cell phones and PDAs (personal digital assistants) with better batteries and these innovations will eventually be adapted to fit the robotics industry, Theobald said. Meanwhile, developments in multicore computing and storage advancements have already affected robot development. “Quad-core computing helps because each core handles a task,” Mick Mountz, CEO of Kiva Systems, which builds robots that deal with tasks like moving goods in warehouses. Brooks said that storage is no longer a problem and noted how a single iPod could eventually hold all the books in the U. Library of Congress…
“Biology systems are great models for robotic systems,” Theobald said. “It is interesting to think about how it could all come together. Her company considered using muscle tissue in a robot. However, this would require blood to nourish the muscle and Vecna questioned the implications of sending robots that bleed into combat. With robots already being used by enterprises, next up is the consumer market, where use of the devices will help them evolve. “Consumer-driven growth is a great driver for robots,” Hofmeister said. “In long-term evolution, the killer app with robots is taking over greater consumer issues.

CPL, LDK, MWE, ADG, HIHO, ISLN Have Been Added To Naked Short List…
Free with registration – M2 Presswire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Oct 17, 2007
(NYSE: LDK) through its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells multicrystalline solar wafers to the manufacturers of solar cells and solar modules in the People’s Republic of China and internationally. It offers multicrystalline solar wafers between 180 and 240 microns in thickness. The company also provides wafer processing services to monocrystalline and multicrystalline.