Moving and Storage Business News

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- Extra Space Storage Inc. to Participate in Bank of America “Out…
- Load Lock-n-Roll Moving & Storage
- The week ahead
- Data deduplication becomes primary candidate

Extra Space Storage Inc. to Participate in Bank of America “Out…
Maketwire – Maketwire (Communiqus de presse) – Jan 21, 2008
, headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, is a fullyintegrated, self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trustthat operates 644 self-storage properties in 33 states and Washington, D. The Company’s properties comprise approximately 444,000 units and 47million square feet rented by approximately 330,000 individual tenants. TheCompany is the second largest operator of self storage in the UnitedStates. For Information:James OverturfExtra Space Storage Inc. (801) 365-4501Mark CollinsonCCG Investor Relations(310) 231-8600.

Load Lock-n-Roll Moving & Storage
Consumer Affairs – Jan 21, 2008
They came the next day with a 26 feet truck and they had about 20 hugeBoxes that filled more then half of the very small truck they had brought. They Load some furniture and charged me $800 and they left to come back the next Day and take the rest. And they did, and they promised me a very fair rate for storage untilMy situation change and can get my own place. In March of 2007 about 5 months later with the help of my family I got an apartment. Move to have my furniture delivered when I was told thatI owed them $4400 hundred for storage, and if I dont pay them they will sell my stuff. I told Ed they owner that I was a single mom working 2 jobs $4400 so five months of Storage was way too much, and I begged him for a brake and he said no…
I spoke with David and he was very helpful, knowledgable, and kind. I felt really comfortable in hiring this company after speaking with him. This would be my first time ever using a moving company and I had heard HORROR stories from many people about movers. So having a peace in mind was a HUGE relief. I received a message on my home answer machine at 9:38 AM, Monday, December 26 to confirm the movers and truck. I received this message in the afternoon and I called them back to confirm. I spoke with a man who DID comfirm all my addresses (old and new) and date (dec.

The week ahead
Telegraph.co.uk – Jan 21, 2008
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Analysts expect the group to report like-for-like sales growth – excluding petrol – of between 5-9pc for the six weeks to January 6. They say Morrison has gained market share from its competitors on the back of heavy advertising and promotional activity and an improving performance in London and the South East. • Safestore will benefit from the growth in demand for long-term self-storage when it delivers its maiden set of full-year numbers after listing in March. The group is also expected to say whether it plans to convert to a real estate investment trust. • Pub group JD Wetherspoon is expected to show a modest slowdown in its second-quarter performance. Dresdner Kleinwort is forecasting a second-quarter sales decline of 2. 5pc and expects margins to have been hit by the shift in mix to food and higher staffing costs.

Data deduplication becomes primary candidate
Search Storage – Jan 21, 2008
” Analyst Greg Schulz of the StorageIO Group said deduplication is too demanding on processors to be the data reduction scheme of choice for primary data. “NetApp is using it, but the benefits of deduplication don’t offset the penalty for online active primary storage,” he said. “Moving forward, sure, I could see it as becoming a feature. Eventually, we’ll get to it, but we’ll need faster processors and better algorithms to get to it. Now it plays to its strength — nearline, offline data — where you don’t have to pay a penalty to see results. Today for online primary data, you use online compression. With compression, penalties aren’t as severe, but you still get a benefit…
Today for online primary data, you use online compression. With compression, penalties aren’t as severe, but you still get a benefit. ” Data Domain’s Slootman said, “We’re a storage company, we’re not just a data protection company,” perhaps tipping his hand on where he will go next. He said the vendor will add encryption this year, along with bigger and smaller versions of its current product, while trying to broaden beyond backup. “There are many shades of gray, that’s where we still have huge amounts of work to do,” Slootman said. “We’re going to be gradually adding capabilities to get more transactional-oriented storage, just falling short of [EMC Symmetrix] DMX-class technology.