Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Arcapita Announces Acquisition of PODS Inc.
- Storage Switches Offer Alternatives to Fibre Channel
- Sustainable IT | Ted Samson | TAG: Solar power | InfoWorld
- Spinning mass stores datacentre energy

Arcapita Announces Acquisition of PODS Inc.
Free with registration – Business Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 20, 2007
, a global private equity investment firm with offices in Atlanta, Bahrain, London and Singapore, announced today that it and its affiliates have completed the acquisition of PODS Inc. for approximately $430 million. PODS (Portable On-Demand Storage) is one of the most recognized brands in the storage and moving industry. Arcapita and PODS signed a definitive merger agreement on November 9, 2007. Established in 1998, PODS has developed a unique storage and moving concept to offer customers a more convenient and cost-efficient storage and moving solution. By using standardized storage containers which are delivered directly to a home or business, PODS is.

Storage Switches Offer Alternatives to Fibre Channel
Server Watch – Dec 20, 2007
With organizations increasingly moving to replicated storage systems for. Switch HittersAccording to Passmore, Brocade Communications Systems and Cisco Systems, both of San Jose, Calif…
In mid-October, Brocade upgraded its 48000 director-class switch from 4Gb to 8Gb. Coming up is a director-class switch, called the DCX, which supports Ethernet, FC, FCoE and iSCSI, and includes software for management and data encryption. CiscoIf Brocade is rolling out a strategy, you can count on Cisco to release an alternative strategy. In this case, it’s Data Center 3.

Sustainable IT | Ted Samson | TAG: Solar power | InfoWorld
InfoWorld – Dec 20, 2007
) Moreover, the company has a to-do list of other innovative and eco-friendly projects, according to Nail. “We are adding an underground water-storage tank to recycle grey water. Next, we are installing a new solar-panel automated-washing device we created. This will automatically wash the solar panels each morning, and all excess water will be filtered back into the storage tank. We’ll also be using the storage tank water to water our landscape,” he tells me via e-mail.

Spinning mass stores datacentre energy
Builder AU – Dec 20, 2007
When a utility needs a jolt of electricity, kinetic power is converted to electrical power. When it’s not needed, the mass just spins to conserve its energy. Energy storage devices, along with clean coal, are part of a market that is attracting investors but also eluding any easy answers. Conventional batteries improve with performance over time, but not at a regular rapid pace like semiconductors. Utilities are also clamoring for UPS devices because renewable energy sources like solar power fields and wind farms don’t produce power at level, regular rates. Thus, everyone is looking for new ways to solve this problem. The company uses a relatively small mass to avoid potential mishaps, such as the mass coming unstuck from its moorings, and efficiency gains can be made through speeding up rotation.