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- Fergy space takes off
- InStorage REIT pans takeover offer from Canadian Storage Partners
- Presidential Election: Relocation.com Offers McCain or Obama Free …
- 50 State St. sold for $8.5M
- BUYINS.NET: BSGC, HCIIW, DPFD, FESVF, TRDFF Have Also Been Removed …
- Dot Hill RAID Systems Certified With VMware ESX 3.5

Fergy space takes off
nebusiness.co.uk, UK 
Fergy Space opened earlier this month and has since been welcoming new customers to the storage facility in Cramlington on a daily basis. Ferguson’s, the well-known transport and removal company which offers self-storage solutions for both domestic and commercial clients with ‘down to earth prices’, has made an investment of £3m in a bid to add the new dimension to the company. Since starting to trade at the start of October, the latest service available from the North East-born organisation has really taken off. With 90,000sqft of storage room at the new build facility, Fergy Space is one of the largest storage facilities in the UK. Based on Northumberland Business Park West, it is well placed for easy access, being just off the A19. With phase one proving popular already, storage manager Paul Taylor is confident that phase two, which offers storage in the upper floors of the building, will be opening later in 2008.

InStorage REIT pans takeover offer from Canadian Storage Partners
The Canadian Press, TORONTO 
UN) has expressed doubts that a $91. 1-million takeover offer by Canadian Storage Partners reflects the underlying value of the company. A special committee of InStorage’s board said Monday the $3. 75 per unit bid is a 28. 9 per cent discount to the one-year weighted average trading price for its units and a 21.
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Presidential Election: Relocation.com Offers McCain or Obama Free …
NewsBlaze, CA 
com Relocation. com is the largest online marketplace connecting consumers whoare moving locally, nationally or internationally with professionals that canbest service their needs. Working with many leading moving and storagecompanies, Relocation. com provides free quotes from quality, professionalcompanies who can service consumers during their upcoming move. It is focusedon helping make the relocation process easier and less challenging for the 40million people moving each year. com offers comprehensiveinformation, tools and resources to help consumers compare, connect and learnabout products and services from hundreds of relevant providers.

50 State St. sold for $8.5M
Bizjournals.com, NC 
29 by a subsidiary of The. , an Albany-based firm that owns and manages a large portfolio of retail, residential and commercial properties in the Northeast, according to a deed filed in the Albany County clerk’s office. The Gordon Companies will move its headquarters from 384 Broadway in Albany to the top floor of 50 State St. and renovate the rest of the building for commercial tenants, said the listing agent, Tracy Metzger, of.

BUYINS.NET: BSGC, HCIIW, DPFD, FESVF, TRDFF Have Also Been Removed …
Trading Markets (press release), CA 
, provides email services. It offers BigString, a Web-based, POP3 server email service solution that allows the user to edit, recall, cancel, and erase the email, as well as insert or delete attachments, even after the email has been sent out and opened. The company also provides BigString 3. 0, which offers erasable, recallable, and self destroying applications, non-printable and non-forwardable emails, set time or number of views, and masquerading to protect the sender’s privacy and security. 0 also provides spam filters, virus protection, and large-storage Web-based email accounts. Its products include BigString Free, which provides the features of BigString Version 3.

Dot Hill RAID Systems Certified With VMware ESX 3.5
SYS-CON Media, NJ 
An internal SAS interface allows up to five disk enclosures(including the RAID enclosure) delivering a total of 56 drives. The 2330adapts to a broad range of applications, and the capability to mix both SATAand SAS technology within a single disk enclosure provides an optimum, tieredstorage environment for Information Lifecycle Management. The 2730 and 2730Tare the company’s next-generation, flexible storage platform for OEMs. The2730 features 4Gb Fibre Channel host connectivity, which allows customers toexperience the quality, availability and ease-of-use of up to 56 mixed SAS andSATA drives. The 5730 offers enhanced processingpower, providing more than 1.