Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Dell To Buy The Networked Storage Company
- Feeling the Heat.(Sony Corp.)(Interview)
- Building magnate reshaped Beloit
- Symantec parts company with ACA
- Year End – OLPC heralds era of low-cost computing

Dell To Buy The Networked Storage Company
InformationWeek – Dec 21, 2007
, which specializes in moving customers to IT data storage systems. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Located in the United Kingdom, the storage company is privately held and has a customer roster of leading European financial institutions. Early last month, Dell acquired storage area network provider.

Feeling the Heat.(Sony Corp.)(Interview)
Free with registration – eWeek – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 21, 2007
But on the other hand, we started to realize it was headed directly for our corporate headquarters in Rancho Bernardo, and we knew it would be difficult to reach people over the weekend if we had to advise them that we were closing the office. It was pretty chaotic. One of the big surprises was just how quickly the fire was moving. Our neighborhood is located next to Poway High School, which on Sunday was already being used as an evacuation center for the town of.

Building magnate reshaped Beloit
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription… – Dec 21, 2007
“He looked on Beloit as a great fixer-upper, and he’s devoted his life to that,” Nief said. From Beloit, Hendricks built ABC Supply into a nationwide distributor of roofing, siding, windows and other building products. The company now has 390 locations, 6,000 employees and nearly $3 billion in annual sales. Hendricks estimated a year ago that besides ABC he owns 30 other firms with combined sales of $1. Forbes magazine recently estimated his net worth at $3. 5 billion, making him the 91st-richest American…
and installed a variety of new businesses and sleek offices. Also there is a museum featuring sculpture fashioned from old papermaking machinery patterns. Tens – maybe hundreds – of thousands of the patterns had been left in storage and were about to be thrown away by the previous owners. Hendricks, aghast, paid $35,000 for the lot and got DeMunnik to start turning them into art. Hendricks had his critics, particularly when he owned a large number of rental homes in Beloit in the 1970s. But for the last 20 years or so, it’s been pretty much local-hero status. “It’s kind of unusual to have a champion of the stature of a Ken Hendricks,” Beloit city manager Larry N.

Symantec parts company with ACA
ARNnet – Dec 21, 2007
“Based around this, both Symantec and ACA decided to end our agreement. The distribution change comes into effect from January 1. ACA Pacific focuses on the storage, imaging and network security markets, with a vendor line-up including Hitachi Data Systems, Seagate, EqualLogic, Quantum, Imation and ScanSoft. Last month it took a leap into the set-top box market with Korean vendor, Topfield. ACA Pacific had not responded to requests for comment at the time of press. Dzienciol said Ingram and Express Data’s broad market coverage gave it more than enough scope to address SMB, mid-market and higher enterprise customers. “Both have an excellent track record – working with them puts us in a strong position to meet partner needs,” he added.

Year End – OLPC heralds era of low-cost computing
ARNnet – Dec 21, 2007
The laptop has also roused big technology companies to join the fray with research dollars and plans for the future. Intel and Microsoft, for example, are hard at work tweaking chips (…
Shim says he has already seen new low-cost laptops that have yet to be unveiled, and said “all the major guys” are looking into such devices, but he declined to reveal further information due to nondisclosure agreements. To be sure, laptop PC prices were already falling prior to the launch of OLPC’s XO laptop, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. The proliferation of LCDs (liquid crystal displays) in laptops, desktop monitors and other devices has pushed down the price of such screens to below that of older, CRT (cathode-ray tube) monitors in some cases, and iPods and other digital music players have helped lower the price of hard disk drives and flash memory storage. But the challenge OLPC Chairman.