Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- New storage facilities for South Africa
- Seagate(R) Introduces World’s Fastest, Greenest Enterprise Hard Drive
- Beta Systems and Proginet Strengthen Core Competencies with …
- Mellanox Technologies Ranked Number 28 in Deloitte’s Technology …
- Public Storage to Release Third Quarter 2008 Earnings Results and …

New storage facilities for South Africa
Creamer Media’s Engineering News, South Africa 
Over the last four years, SASSI has invested significant resources in researching the international and domestic self-storage industry. Lucas explains that SASSI?s service offering allows investors an opportunity to invest in self-storage developments and participate in capital and income returns as an equal stakeholder with SASSI. The SASSI Self Storage Group is the fastest-growing self-storage company in South Africa. The group features a portfolio of seven self-storage facilities in operation and under development throughout South Africa. Future Investment Lucas says SASSI has a number of future investment opportunities in its development pipeline. The company offers astute property investors the opportunity to partner with the company and develop the new facilities together, thus sharing in the risks and rewards of the new development. The company terms this investment strategy equity partnerships.

Seagate(R) Introduces World’s Fastest, Greenest Enterprise Hard Drive
PR Newswire (press release), NY 
Seagate Unified Storage architecture delivers long-term businesssustainability Historically, the variety of drive interfaces, form factors and now,security solutions, can add complexity and increase costs for both ITprofessionals and OEMs. Making the wrong choice today creates storageislands in the data center with no easy path for upgrades — furthercomplicating an already complex environment. The Seagate Unified Storagearchitecture converges best-of-breed technologies (Serial Attached SCSI,Small Form Factor and Self-Encrypting Drives) into a foundation forpowerful yet simple storage that boosts business and operational efficiencywhile reducing cost and complexity. The Seagate Unified Storage architecture delivers a storage foundationfor companies that are proactively ensuring the long-term sustainability oftheir business through best-in-class IT practices. Companies will avoid therisk of impacting their own product quality, competitiveness, orprofitability when their storage system infrastructure and data centerfootprint is optimized across power, cooling and performance density. Because the role of small form factor drives are important to the long termefficiency and sustainability of any data center enterprise, Seagate willbe extending this component into all tiers of its Unified Storagearchitecture in the future. “Standardizing on enterprise-class small form factor disk drives with aSAS 2.

Beta Systems and Proginet Strengthen Core Competencies with …
MarketWatch 
In addition, Beta Systems has become
the exclusive distributor for Proginet’s
complete file transfer portfolio in Europe. This includes the
transferred Harbor NSM and Harbor HFT file transfer products. The SecurPass and SecurAccess products offer comprehensive password
synchronization and self-service management features that help companies
manage their security processes in a highly efficient manner. SecurForce
facilitates host-based Web authentication and user rights assignment. The Harbor NSM and Harbor HFT products offer multi-platform network
storage management and file transfer capabilities that enable
organizations to optimize their IT operations with high speed, fiber
channel communications. “This strategic product exchange expands Beta
Systems’ identity management business by
complementing our existing SAM Jupiter product suite,”
said Kamyar Niroumand, CEO of Beta Systems Software AG. “Beta
Systems receives many benefits as a result of this deal.

Mellanox Technologies Ranked Number 28 in Deloitte’s Technology …
MarketWatch 
Mellanox’s
increase in revenues of 728 percent from fiscal years 2003 to 2007
resulted in a 28 ranking in the Technology Fast 50 for Silicon Valley. “Our growth represents the increase in the
number of mainstream enterprise business applications taking advantage
of our InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect performance, efficiency and
low-power benefits,” said Eyal Waldman,
chairman, president and CEO of Mellanox Technologies. “Moving
forward, we plan to enhance our leadership position and further
capitalize on the recent market growth of HPC and Enterprise server and
storage markets. ”

“Sustaining high revenue growth over five
years is an exceptional accomplishment. We commend Mellanox Technologies
for making the commitment to technology and delivering on the promise of
market longevity,” said Mark Jensen, Managing
Partner, National Venture Capital Services, Deloitte & Touche LLP, in
Silicon Valley. “We are proud to honor
Mellanox as one of Deloitte’s Technology Fast
50. ”

To qualify for the Technology Fast 50, companies must have had operating
revenues of at least $50,000 in fiscal year 2003 and $5,000,000 in
fiscal year 2007, be headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, and be
a company that owns proprietary technology or proprietary intellectual
property that contributes to a significant portion of the company’s
operating revenues; or devotes a significant proportion of revenues to
the research and development of technology.

Public Storage to Release Third Quarter 2008 Earnings Results and …
MarketWatch 
com,
under “Corporate Information, Investor Relations”
Date accessible through: November 20, 2008

Company Information

Public Storage, a member of the S&P 500 and The Forbes Global 2000, is a
fully integrated, self-administered and self-managed real estate
investment trust that primarily acquires, develops, owns and operates
self-storage facilities. The Company’s
headquarters are located in Glendale, California. At June 30, 2008, the
Company had interests in 2,015 self-storage facilities located in 38
states with approximately 127 million net rentable square feet in the
United States and 179 storage facilities located in seven Western
European nations with approximately nine million net rentable square
feet. Additional information about Public Storage is available on the
Internet. The Company’s web site is.
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