Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Self-storage Units a Popular Way to Hide Christmas Gifts
- … by number of employees in the greater San Fernando Valley.(T…
- Storage Outlook ‘08: Building out iSCSI SANs
- New leadership recasting plans
- Terapad Pro: Reviews – SMB – ZDNet Australia

Self-storage Units a Popular Way to Hide Christmas Gifts
WJLA – Dec 24, 2007
Michael Martin at New Market Mini Storage said his business keeps gift wrap on hand so customers can wrap presents there. Information from: The Frederick (Md.

… by number of employees in the greater San Fernando Valley.(T…
Free with registration – San Fernando Valley Business Journal – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 24, 2007
| San Fernando Valley Business Journal (December, 2007). Countrywide and Disney, both companies who would likely have made the list, decline.

Storage Outlook ‘08: Building out iSCSI SANs
Search Storage – Dec 24, 2007
Fastenal is a public company with more than 10,000 employees and 150 TB of capacity under management, most of it on EMC Corp. ’s Clariion midrange disk array. The company also has several Sun Microsystems Inc. StorageTek tape libraries…
What was your biggest storage project that was completed this year? What problem did it solve for you?David Dulek: We swapped out our departmental switches, which were made by Brocade, for director-class Cisco switches. We were extending our SAN to a second data center in Indianapolis, and we were out of ports. Moving to directors helped with bandwidth on ISLs [interswitch links]. Our previous switches had 1 Gbps ISLs, and now we just have a blade chassis, and the speed between each of those is backplane speed, which is somewhere in the vicinity of 60 Gbps between the modules. So now, it really doesn’t matter where we put the ISLs in the switch. Before, we really had to plan it out because you didn’t want to put the heavy disk targets and heavy hitters on the same physical switch. It also positioned us for iSCSI because directors will do it over the same Fibre Channel port.

New leadership recasting plans
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription… – Dec 24, 2007
and a former GE Healthcare executive. “Bob got to see a couple hundred companies and what their value proposition is. He saw many that weren’t successful, and he got to see why they weren’t successful…
“He’s really well-suited to be able to build this thing, capitalize it right, define the market the right way, enter into the right relationships – and Bob has a personality that’s going to make people want to work with him,” said Kevin Conroy, president and chief technology officer at Third Wave Technologies Inc. and a former GE Healthcare executive. Pothier said he’s already working at recasting PointOne’s business plan by moving away from selling to doctors, hospitals and clinics. “You don’t want to be the additional IT system that wants to go into the hospital because there are hundreds of them already, and you don’t want to be in line,” Pothier said. “Let the other guys do that. This will be the engine behind the analysis. Pothier said he wants to sell PointOne’s expertise in clinical-genetic information systems through partnerships with companies such as Cerner Corp.

Terapad Pro: Reviews – SMB – ZDNet Australia
ZDNet.com.au – Dec 24, 2007
Terapad doesn’t ask you for a credit card and there’s no ‘trial period’. Those wishing to upgrade to Standard (no ads) or Pro (no ads, no branding and SLA) versions of Terapad can do so after signing up at any time. Moving up to Standard costs US$14. 15 per month (storage and bandwidth stays the same as Standard)…
The Pro version reviewed here doesn’t display branding, and comes free of any ads. Without Terapad’s logo, your site can convey a professional image usually found only on expensive bespoke solutions, yet still cost just a fraction of the hosting fees such a solution would usually entail. The company has also added a Service Level Agreement (SLA) exclusive to Pro users, the details of which are listed in the terms and conditions. Of the Terapad options, Pro is definitely the preferred solution for small businesses and trade bodies. You can upgrade to this solution at any time via the Upgrade tab in the web-based control panel. You can also purchase extra bandwidth and storage via the Upgrade tab. While both Terapad Standard and Pro already come bundled with an already impressive 40GB of bandwidth per month and 4GB of storage space, the new billing system allows you to purchase even further resources should the need arise.