Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Bloomberg.com: Investment Tools
- Atrato Trots out High-Performance Storage
- Business Bulletin Board
- Automakers begin to move on plug-in cars

Bloomberg.com: Investment Tools
Bloomberg – Mar 28, 2008
2 million of which was reflected in net income in thefourth quarter of 2007 and $1. 4 million of which will be reflected inthe first quarter of 2008. The Company is proceeding with legalaction to recover this loss from the broker-dealer from whom theCompany originally purchased these securities. The Company has notincluded any potential settlement in its 2008 FFO guidance andexpects that, for the full year, the loss on the ARS will be matchedby a reduction of interest expense on the variable portion of itsoutstanding debt. Forward-Looking Statements Certain information set forth in this release contains"forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the federalsecurities laws. Forward-looking statements include statementsconcerning our plans, objectives, goals, strategies, future events,future revenues or performance, capital expenditures, financingneeds, plans or intentions relating to acquisitions and otherinformation that is not historical information. In some cases,forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as"believes," "estimates," "expects," "may," "will," "should,""anticipates," or "intends" or the negative of such terms or othercomparable terminology, or by discussions of strategy.

Atrato Trots out High-Performance Storage
Enterprise IT Planet – Mar 28, 2008
The 3U Self-managing Array of Identical Disks (SAID) can deliver 25. 6 to 50 terabytes of storage, handle 11,000…
Atrato could be making the bet we’ve reached that inflection point. For its part, Atrato said the high cost is more than offset by the energy efficiencies gained and the ability to eliminate memory cache devices. Dan McCormick, co-founder and CEO, said in a statement that “IT managers assume that by adding rack units, they will get the increased IOPS needed. The reality is that over-provisioning not only fails to deliver the expected performance gains but also adds costly power and space-intensive overhead to the data center. A current customer pilot involving a random database report pull cut turnaround time from nine hours to 90 minutes, said Steve Visconti, executive VP of sales and marketing. “With this system, there is no need for expensive items such as video cache or extending the content pool.

Business Bulletin Board
St. Louis Post-Dispatch – Mar 28, 2008
Greer award for his work on Department of Defense initiatives. Accenture received the Air Force Association Alamo Chapter’s Civilian Organization of the Year award for modernizing the military’s financial and administrative systems. Fenton-based Mayflower Transit received the Fleet Safety Award from the American Moving and Storage Association for carriers in the 50 million to 100 million miles category. The award is based on the lowest Department of Transportation recordable accident rate per million miles of vehicle operation, and the lowest vehicle and driver out-of-service rates. Steve Gross, a managing director of Northwestern Mutual Financial Network in Chesterfield, received the company’s Managing Director Achievement award, which recognizes overall excellence in district agency development. was named as a winner in the 2008 American Corporate Identity awards competition…
Steve Gross, a managing director of Northwestern Mutual Financial Network in Chesterfield, received the company’s Managing Director Achievement award, which recognizes overall excellence in district agency development. was named as a winner in the 2008 American Corporate Identity awards competition. A custom house designed by Barry L. Glantz AIA and built by Jeffrey Homes won a platinum award in the Home of the Year competition sponsored by St. Louis Homes & Lifestyles magazine. The 4,900-square-foot house, at 24 Spoede Lane in Creve Coeur, won in the category of best custom house, $1 million to $1,999,999.

Automakers begin to move on plug-in cars
San Francisco Chronicle – Mar 28, 2008
Now the Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto will join the study, expanding it to include a test site in New York or New Jersey. The institute, which conducts research for utilities, will explore some of the technical issues that plug-ins raise. When would drivers want to recharge them – at night, during the day, or both? By soaking up surplus electrical capacity at night, could the plug-ins make utilities operate more efficiently? Should the car batteries double as power storage devices, feeding electricity back into the home?”We’re looking at the best possible way to integrate these vehicles into the grid,” said Mark Duvall, the institute’s program manager for electric transportation. “To do that, we need to study how people use them, how they recharge them. The study will run for three years, using 20 plug-in Escapes. But Ford has not yet set a timetable for selling plug-in SUVs. A Ford spokeswoman said Thursday that the cost of making the plug-ins is still too high for the mass market, and the company has not fully tested their durability and safety…
demonstrated last year how plug-ins can act as batteries for houses, feeding power back into a home electrical system. Plug-in advocates, however, are frustrated that the cars are only being studied – not sold. The auto companies, they say, could be moving much faster. “They’re totally just dipping their toes in the water,” said Sherry Boschert, author of the book “Plug-in Hybrids: The Cars that Will Recharge America. ” “It’s good they’re doing something, but it’s the automotive form of greenwashing,” she said. “They could be mass-producing these things.