Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Amazon: We’re a Technology Company
- Property Managers Recommend NorthStar Moving for Commercial and …
- Five top spending priorities for hard times
- Self-storage site stirs flood fears
- U-Store-It Trust Storing Hope for Children
- EMC Customers Achieve Significant Savings With De-Duplicated …
- Lackland Self Storage Chooses Exigent Technologies as Their …

Amazon: We’re a Technology Company
InternetNews.com 
Jassey expects demand for cloud services to grow, particularly now with the economy in trouble. “It eliminates up-front capital and lets you move faster and get to market quicker,” he said. For instance, when companies get ready to launch a new online service, they typically invest in new computer and storage capacity. “You have to guess, and it rarely turns out to be what you projected,” he said. In other words, you either buy more than you need or scramble to meet unexpected demand. But Amazon and other cloud service providers charge only for what’s used and you can scale computing resources as needed.

Property Managers Recommend NorthStar Moving for Commercial and …
MarketWatch 
for
the second consecutive year, and named one of the Top 50 Fastest Growing
Private Companies for the third consecutive year and ranked number four
in the Top 30 Best Places to Work by the San Fernando Valley Business
Journal. The company’s services include local, long distance,
international, residential, and commercial moves, as well as
full-service and mobile storage. NorthStar Moving Corporation’s mission
is to exceed their clients’ expectations with graceful customer care and
to move service back into what should have always been the
ultimate service industry: the moving industry. For more information,
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Five top spending priorities for hard times
TMCnet 
"So that’s going to accelerate cloud offerings from the big vendors. "

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Gens sees many companies moving to the cloud for the applications and services most often sought by business types, who are actually circumventing the IT department to get what they need. These include such business solutions as sales-force automation, productivity, and marketing campaign software. "The more pure IT stuff — infrastructure, infrastructure software, application development — those are tech buyers, so there are fewer potential customers," Gens says. Tech buyers are taking a hard look at such cloud services as Amazon’s EC2, which allows businesses to scale capacity dynamically by uploading virtual machines to Amazon’s servers. But other less glitzy areas are getting traction, too.

Self-storage site stirs flood fears
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, IN 
Herman & Kittle Properties Inc. wants to build the 82,310-square-foot storage complex to serve the city’s east side, said Tim Westerfield, land acquisition specialist for the company. The Indianapolis-based company is building another Infinite Self Storage location on Lima Road, just north of Wallen Road. The Stellhorn Road location will feature some climate-controlled and drive-up units. Westerfield said he wasn’t sure how much the project would cost or how many jobs would be created. Infinite Self Storage would create a buffer between nearby homes and the shopping center where Scott’s is located, Westerfield said. The complex will be fenced and landscaped to block neighbors’ views.

U-Store-It Trust Storing Hope for Children
MarketWatch 
com or call 1-888-U-Store-It. About U-Store-It Trust:

U-Store-It Trust is a self-administered and self-managed real estate
investment trust focused on the ownership, operation, acquisition and
development of self-storage facilities in the United States. The
Company’s self-storage facilities are designed to offer affordable,
easily accessible and secure storage space for residential and
commercial customers. According to the 2008 Self-Storage Almanac,
U-Store-It Trust is one of the top four owners and operators of
self-storage facilities in the United States. SOURCE: U-Store-It

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EMC Customers Achieve Significant Savings With De-Duplicated …
MarketWatch 
Byron Leman, Storage Administration Section Manager, of the California Department of Justice, said, “Working with EMC, we have been able to develop a unique automated archive system that’s enabled us to keep a number of applications and unstructured data easily accessible while highly available through replication. Currently, we archive all of our digital fingerprints and criminal history data to EMC Centera and replicate an exact copy off-site for disaster recovery. By moving this data to Centera, we are able provide secure and fast access to critical information. As a result, this allows our department to do a better job in ensuring justice, safety, and liberty for everyone. ”

Backing Up the Trucks with EMC

— Burris Logistics operates a network of frozen food warehousing and
distribution systems in the eastern United States. In order to maintain
the highest level of internal operations and customer service, the
company turned to EMC to improve its backup infrastructure. Bill Poore, Director of Information Technology at Burris Logistics, said, “It is essential that we support 24-by-7 warehouse operations and the transparency of the backup process is a critical part of that support.

Lackland Self Storage Chooses Exigent Technologies as Their …
PR Web (press release), WA 
Beginning this month, Exigent will handle helpdesk and onsite support services for store locations, advanced IT infrastructure consultation and customized IT product procurement services. Established in 1997, Exigent Technologies is a full-service information technology company that implements and maintains high-performance IT systems for small and medium-sized organizations in a wide range of industries.