Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- U-Store-It Announces New Features Added to Storage Rental Website
- Opinion: Conference reflects a maturation of the storage market
- Women In Trucking Names Ellen Voie as President

U-Store-It Announces New Features Added to Storage Rental Website
sys-con.com – Apr 16, 2008
The website offers new and existingcustomers state of the art features and functionality. Customers can now reserve storage units from any U-Store-It location withthe new online storage reservation feature. Visitors to UStoreIt.

Opinion: Conference reflects a maturation of the storage market
Computerworld – Apr 16, 2008
Last week’s SNW in Orlando, to me at least, reflected a storage market that is transitioning to a mature phase, where new developments are likely to be more incremental — evolutionary rather than revolutionary. Storage virtualization, in all of its forms, continues to be a growing force, and almost every vendor is striving to capitalize on the server virtualization phenomenon. The focus has shifted to more of a solution approach with an emphasis on solving the real needs, like addressing the imbalance between storage and server provisioning time, improving availability, and providing integrated disaster recovery. De-duplication technologies also continue to evolve, with the established players continuing to provide enhancements primarily by leveraging underlying component advances, while others that had promised such functionality are finally taking steps to make it a reality…
Last week’s SNW in Orlando, to me at least, reflected a storage market that is transitioning to a mature phase, where new developments are likely to be more incremental — evolutionary rather than revolutionary. Storage virtualization, in all of its forms, continues to be a growing force, and almost every vendor is striving to capitalize on the server virtualization phenomenon. The focus has shifted to more of a solution approach with an emphasis on solving the real needs, like addressing the imbalance between storage and server provisioning time, improving availability, and providing integrated disaster recovery. De-duplication technologies also continue to evolve, with the established players continuing to provide enhancements primarily by leveraging underlying component advances, while others that had promised such functionality are finally taking steps to make it a reality. Not surprisingly, “green” offerings were everywhere to be found.

Women In Trucking Names Ellen Voie as President
Layover.com – Apr 16, 2008
About WIT:WIT’s mission is to encourage the employment of women in the trucking industry, promote their accomplishments and minimize obstacles to their career growth and development. Corporate members currently include: Adanac Truck Driver Training Ltd. , Advanced Transportation Technologies, All-State Career School, American Moving & Storage Association, American Trucking Associations, Inc. , Arkansas State University-Newport, Arrow Trucking Company, Avalon Risk Management, Inc. , Baylor Trucking, Bolt Express, Celadon Trucking Services, Inc. , Covered Logistics & Transportation LLC,CRST Van Expedited, Dart Transit Company, Dependable Source Corp.