Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Attorney General Reaches Settlement with Jacksonville Moving Company
- Website Makeover: www.usdoor.com By US Door & Building Components
- How does Skytap plan to take on the cloud?
- Maine Self Storage Association Selects MiniCo Publications as …
- Avid Sets New HD Production Standards With Avid Unity ISIS 2.0
- Athens Township: Moving forward

Attorney General Reaches Settlement with Jacksonville Moving Company
North Florida NewsDaily FL 
The settlement with Father & Son Moving and Storage of Jacksonville Inc. resolves allegations the company used misleading advertising failed to deliver furniture and other possessions at the prices promised and failed to disclose certain items on its contracts. Under the settlement the company must reform its business practices including its marketing tactics and the composition of its contracts. The investigation revealed through dozens of consumers’ complaints with the Attorney General’s office and the Better Business Bureau that the final prices charged at the end of customers’ moves were greater than the original estimates. Consumers were also told they had waived their rights to file claims for losses or damages after signing the "Delivery Acknowledgment" on the Bill of Lading a standard industry form used by all movers.
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Website Makeover: www.usdoor.com By US Door & Building Components
Inside Self-Storage AZ 
 The new site incorporates an easy-to-navigate menu and includes separate navigation systems for self-storage building products and commercial overhead roll-up door lines offered by the company.   In addition to new products an “Architect’s Corner” featuring shop drawings brochures case studies and wind-load certifications is now available.   The “Design Center” segment of the website has also been expanded to include more photos of completed projects self-storage conversions and refurbished facilities. Door & Building Components has been a major international supplier of commercial rolling doors and products for the self-storage and metal building industry for more than 30 years.   In addition to roll-up doors the company offers hallway and corridor systems swing doors lockers EZ Access wicket doors relocatable buildings and mezzanine systems.

How does Skytap plan to take on the cloud?
InfoWorld CA 
Q: What advice would you give to companies who have Cloud Computing written into their 2009 budgets but aren’t sure where to start?Brodie: For an IT organization that isn’t sure where to begin I would encourage them to start by moving an IT environment such as QA IT ops testing or training lab to the cloud. This will allow a company to evaluate the level of ROI on their investment and learn how cloud solutions can help them achieve larger business objectives. It’s best to start with environments that are lower risk before moving to production workloads. Before choosing a cloud computing vendor companies should also carefully evaluate SLAs and past performance to ensure they are selecting a reliable solution that can guarantee maximum uptime. Q: One of the reasons IT dislikes the cloud is because it requires them to re-write their applications to run in a cloud. Is this true of all environments or do some clouds provide the flexibility to run applications “as-is”? Brodie: Cloud vendors that require applications to be rewritten do so in order to take advantage of proprietary application frameworks or storage services. This makes it challenging for organizations to quickly leverage them for existing IT environments and applications.

Maine Self Storage Association Selects MiniCo Publications as …
PR.com (press release) NY 
"MeSSA Treasurer Rhonda Hallett Pope commented “Offering MiniCo’s publications to our members will provide them with valuable information and resources to help them build their businesses. We are pleased to be working with MiniCo Publishing to make this possible. ”MiniCo Co-Publisher Poppy Behrens stated “The Maine Self Storage Association is actively seeking to grow its membership and provide tools to help these business owners succeed. MiniCo Publishing is excited to have the opportunity to work with the association’s leadership to assist them in reaching their goals. ”MiniCo Publishing a division of MiniCo Inc. publishes the "Mini-Storage Messenger" the leading monthly trade magazine covering the global self-storage industry. Other publications include "Self-Storage Now!" "Mobile Self-Storage Magazine" "RV & Boat Storage Today" "Self-Storage Canada" the "Self-Storage Almanac" the "Self-Storage Development Handbook" and the "Self‑Storage Buyer’s Guide.

Avid Sets New HD Production Standards With Avid Unity ISIS 2.0
MarketWatch 
As a post facility where we do lots of HD work and havean ever-changing schedule this high resolution support is a hugebenefit and has the ability to greatly increase our productivity. Avid Unity ISIS is a blade-based storage subsystem that featuresintelligent dual drive storage elements integrated Ethernetswitching and redundant power and cooling. Unlike common storage areanetworks (SANs) the self-balancing Avid Unity ISIS architecturedistributes data and metadata so that each intelligent storageelement can make instant decisions that collectively optimize theperformance capacity and health of the entire system. The systemalso automatically adapts to component failures and replacementswithout delay and provides uninterrupted availability andperformance — allowing customers in high-pressure broadcast film orpost production environments to work free of downtime saving timeand money. Some of the ways Avid Unity ISIS will impact customers’ workflowsinclude: — Providing a high-performance infrastructure that enables users to save time through immediate and simultaneous access to media — by combining offline and online workflows on a single system;– Delivering a 10 GBps Ethernet client that supports resolutions up to uncompressed HD and 2K made possible by performance of up to 400 MBps per ISIS Engine scaling to maximum performance across 12 engines of 4. 8 GBps or a total of 32 streams of uncompressed HD or 240 streams of compressed HD;– Offering flexibility that accommodates rapid changes in priority and timelines. Avid Unity ISIS eliminates the cost of multiple ingest stations output devices and similar tools and enables customers to accommodate users beyond the editorial staff.

Athens Township: Moving forward
Morning Times PA 
At Monday’s meeting Dave Young of Larson Design Group presented the planning commission with updated plans for the proposed operation. Young informed the board that the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has approved the highway occupancy permit for the site and the project’s erosion and sedimentation plan has been approved by the Bradford County Conservation District. The company has filed for the joint permit from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and the U. Army Corp of Engineers and expects to hear word on whether the permit has been granted in the next month said Young. That permit is needed in order for the project to begin operations since the site is located within the floodway. That pump that will be used at the site has been changed from a diesel-fueled device to an electric-powered one said Young.