Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Bankoh reopens Kohala branch
- Middle East investment firm buying Clearwater-based PODS
- Congress Gives in to Bush on War Funding
- OTCPicks.com Daily Market Movers Digest Midday Report for Wednesday,…
- 2007 in Review: Storage Trends in the Midmarket

Bankoh reopens Kohala branch
Honolulu Star-Bulletin – Dec 19, 2007
SCALP THIS: Ticketmaster plans to launch a Web site next year where people can resell tickets to pro football games, the latest push by the event-ticketing company into the lucrative secondary ticket market. He has served positions with Hawaiian Trust Co. , New Mexico Bank & Trust and Harris Trust in Chicago. He is a member of both the Hawaii and California Bar Associations and is a former director of the Hawaii Bar Foundation. Board of directors» The Hawaii Pest Control Association has named its officers and directors for 2008: Rodney Ono, president; Terrance Manago, first vice president; Jon Montalbo, second vice president and Kauai director; David Lau, third vice president; Jason Sahara, secretary; and Shawn Murray, treasurer. Directors include Ainsley Ahlo, James Eschle, Josh Joyce, Rigolette Baraquio, Mohinder Mann, Wayne Koide, Kevin Davis and Carlton Agena…
The award recognizes a hotel for exemplary customer service selected from responses received by the Leaders Club Services Department and Leading Hotels of the World members. Leading Hotels of the World is a luxury hospitality organization which represents nearly 450 of the world’s finest hotels, resorts and spas. » MiniCo has named Waikele Self Storage as the runner-up of its 2007 Self Storage Facility of the year awards in the category of conversion winner. The awards are sponsored by MiniCo’s international self-storage trade magazine, Mini-Storage Messenger. » Leimer Cross Design of Makawao has received four awards at the Hawaii’s 5-0 design competition sponsored by the American Institute of Graphic Arts Honolulu chapter. The firm was selected as the No. 1 graphic design project in the top-five competition for its Esterline 2005 Annual Report.

Middle East investment firm buying Clearwater-based PODS
Naples Daily News – Naples Daily News – Dec 19, 2007
, the Florida-based storage container company, is being sold to an investment firm headquartered in the Middle East, PODS founder Pete Warhurst said Wednesday. All Rights Reserved.

Congress Gives in to Bush on War Funding
CNN International – Dec 19, 2007
As someone said the other day, there seems to be a pattern here. It takes a Clinton to clean up after to Bush. SCHNEIDER: Pocketbook issues are moving to the forefront of this campaign. SCOTT SPRADLING, WMUR: Candidates are now talking a lot more economic issues than they were just a few months ago. SCHNEIDER: That explains Mitt Romney’s continuing lead among New Hampshire Republicans. They say they trust Rudy Giuliani to deal with terrorism and John McCain to deal with Iraq, but Iraq and terrorism have been declining in importance. Which candidate do they trust most on the economy? Mitt Romney…
They are foreign governments with their own national agendas. Christine Romans reports. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A $5 billion investment in Morgan Stanley, a stake in Bear Stearns, control of data storage company Iomega and a pending deal for a minority state in with 3com, a company that provides computer security for the Pentagon. All are Chinese government-linked investments in the U. economy, a growing trend. Record trade deficits have funneled trillions of American dollars into China’s treasury, dollars now coming back to invest in U.

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Free with registration – M2 Presswire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 19, 2007
, provides email services. It offers BigString, which is a Web-based, POP3 server email service solution that allows the user to edit, recall, cancel, and erase the email, as well as insert or delete attachments, even after the email has been sent out and opened. The company also provides BigString Beta 2. 0 that offers erasable, recallable, and self destroying applications, non-printable and non-forwardable emails, set time or number of views, and masquerading to protect the sender’s privacy and security. 0 also provides spam filters, virus protection, and large-storage web-based email accounts. The company’s products include BigString Free, which provides the features of BigString Beta 2…
0 also provides spam filters, virus protection, and large-storage web-based email accounts. The company’s products include BigString Free, which provides the features of BigString Beta 2. 0, and includes 1GB of storage and permits the user to send unlimited emails per month; BigString Premium, which offers the features of the BigString Free account, plus vanity domains, POP3 access using any email client, 2GB of storage, and 30 minute video email; and BigString Business that offers the features of the BigString Premium account, plus 10 email accounts, 20GB of storage, global filter notification, and email management. BigString Corporation also offers BigString Marketer Pro, which provides an enterprise marketing software application which allows for the sending of interactive video email commercials that can be programmed to self-destruct at a set time; and BigString Marketer SMB, a hosted video email marketing platform for small and medium size businesses.

2007 in Review: Storage Trends in the Midmarket
CTR – Dec 19, 2007
Employing a more strategic approach to storage Data growth for midsize customers has continued to accelerate over the past several years due to factors such as movement towards multi-tier backup (disk and tape), increased usage of rich media (audio, video and graphics), and longer term online storage due to regulation requirements. In order for IT managers to effectively control this high volume of data, they need to start thinking about alternatives to direct attached storage. For these businesses, it is about the bottom line, and moving away from direct attached storage towards a more strategic network storage solution that will help reduce management costs, free up capacity, and improve flexibility to enable future growth. Lower entry cost spurs future growthTechnologies such as iSCSI are lowering the entry cost for network storage and allowing businesses to deploy solutions that fit their current infrastructure, but also allow for future growth and flexibility. As customers are looking to move to new and improved storage implementations, they are looking for solutions that allow them to leverage their existing server infrastructure and skill set. When midsized companies move into new technologies such as network storage, tapping into a value-added reseller can provide them the services and expertise needed to help make this transition smooth. Linking virtualization and network storageEnterprises were initially the largest segment of virtualization adopters…
Lower entry cost spurs future growthTechnologies such as iSCSI are lowering the entry cost for network storage and allowing businesses to deploy solutions that fit their current infrastructure, but also allow for future growth and flexibility. As customers are looking to move to new and improved storage implementations, they are looking for solutions that allow them to leverage their existing server infrastructure and skill set. When midsized companies move into new technologies such as network storage, tapping into a value-added reseller can provide them the services and expertise needed to help make this transition smooth. Linking virtualization and network storageEnterprises were initially the largest segment of virtualization adopters. Recently, small and midsized customers are deploying virtualization technologies to reap the same types of benefits, including reduced costs, increased utilization, and improvements in disaster recovery. As these businesses implement virtualization technologies, there is a strong link to network storage to enable easier movement of virtual machines. Keeping it simpleIT managers for small and midsize businesses who are moving from direct attached to network storage are looking for easy-to-deploy and easy-to-manage solutions that enable them to benefit from storage without increasing the complexity of their IT environments.