Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Nelson Westerberg Acquires Calif. Moving and Storage Agency to Expand…
- Analysts International Corporation Announces Full Director Slate for…
- Intel CEO confronts OEM grumbling around direct chip sales
- IT managers waiting for solid-state drive advances
- Gordian Health Solutions Integrates eDoc4u

Nelson Westerberg Acquires Calif. Moving and Storage Agency to Expand…
prnewswire.com – Apr 9, 2008
, one of the longest-established global corporaterelocation providers in the U. , recently acquired Lido Van and Storage,an Irvine, Calif. moving and storage company, to expand its domesticoperations coast to coast. Lido Van and Storage, founded in 1973, is asingle-source provider of transportation and relocation services in theSouthern California market. Nelson Westerberg, family owned since 1904, consistently ranks withinthe top 250 privately held corporations in Illinois with 2007 consolidatedrevenue of $88…
com) is a global provider of moving and storageservices to corporations, families, government and the military. Thecompany is a moving partner to more than 200 corporations includingblue-chip and the Fortune 1000. A family- and veteran-owned business,Nelson Westerberg is a top-producing agent within the Atlas Van Linesnetwork. The company manages more than 13,000 relocations annually with aworkforce of more than 250 employees and operates a fleet of over 400tractors and trailers.

Analysts International Corporation Announces Full Director Slate for…
Earthtimes – Apr 9, 2008
“From the depth and breadth of IT services industry experience andstrong financial expertise that’s represented to the individuals who caneffectively represent the voice of the customer, we believe this is anoutstanding slate of candidates. And, with more than half of thenominations going to relatively new nominees, we look forward to benefitingfrom the fresh perspective these individuals will bring to AIC. “AIC is moving swiftly forward in its program to refocus the Company as aprovider of value-added IT services,” added Burhardt. “A strong andexperienced Board committed to creating shareholder value will be anessential part of our success. As previously announced, three long-time directors — Michael J. LaVelle,Margaret A…
Burhardt was Vice President of Technology atHoneywell International and Honeywell Inc. from May 1998 to August 2000. Previously, he served as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer atImation Corporation, a data storage products company, and Vice President ofResearch and Development at 3M, a worldwide diversified technology company. Burhardt has been a director on AIC’s Board since December 2002. Dunsmore, 49, has served as CEO of Digi International, Inc. , a leader indevice networking for business since 1999.

Intel CEO confronts OEM grumbling around direct chip sales
Register – Apr 9, 2008
Google and other independent-minded large service providers have shown no interest in having a server vendor hold their hands. They posses the technical know-how and resolve to tackle data centers on their own, and bringing in a company such as HP, Dell or IBM just ads a layer of unwanted baggage – and cost. A company such as Intel provides the most direct route to satisfaction and a productive business. Just doing our jobStill, the strategy seems rather risky for Intel during more competitive times. HP, IBM and eventually even Dell all brought AMD inside when Opteron stood as the dominant x86 server processor on the market. Should AMD get its act together again, these server vendors may remember losing out to Intel on a couple of direct deals and decide to angle more of their purchases and designs toward Opteron. “HP or Dell act in their own self-interest,” Otellini said…
You have to wonder if questions around Intel’s direct business will grow in the coming years should the mega data center and cloud computing build out continue as some pundits predict. Companies such as Google, Amazon. com and Microsoft have started stepping on the toes of HP, IBM, Sun and Dell by offering access to processing power, storage and software online. Should these companies fell that the all-out model used by Google makes the most economic sense, they may turn straight to Intel and AMD rather than server suppliers. While you can understand the server and PC maker’s gripes around Intel’s direct model, the vendors seem to gloss over the fact that Intel’s removal from the direct market would only result in AMD trying to snatch up the available business. We’ll be sure to send him a balancing bar to help navigate the tightrope and perhaps some get well soon cards for the server crowd.

IT managers waiting for solid-state drive advances
Computerworld – Apr 9, 2008
Ed Richard, an IT infrastructure engineer at Stiefel Laboratories Inc. , said the performance gains promised by solid-state technology backers means little to his firm. “We’re not splitting atoms in my company, so that’s not a big consideration,” he remarked. “So am I going to put [a solid-state disk] into a SQL database? Absolutely not. ” Responsible for running data center operations at the Coral Gables, Fla. -based pharmaceutical firm, Richard said that he is interested in evaluating how diskless storage could minimize heat disruption, cooling and maintenance costs. Still, he said that the limited storage density of solid-state drives would likely need to be addressed before it can compete with the…
” Responsible for running data center operations at the Coral Gables, Fla. -based pharmaceutical firm, Richard said that he is interested in evaluating how diskless storage could minimize heat disruption, cooling and maintenance costs. Still, he said that the limited storage density of solid-state drives would likely need to be addressed before it can compete with the. “Our [system capacity] has to scale up to 1 petabyte.

Gordian Health Solutions Integrates eDoc4u
sys-con.com – Apr 9, 2008
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