Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- U-Store-It Trust may be moving headquarters to Pennsylvania
- Intel Hitachi Make a Splash In Solid State Storage
- Nokia’s OSS strategy gets boost as Symbian deal completed
- Attorney General Reaches Settlement with Jacksonville Moving Company
- Green House Data Chooses Atrato Storage System for Power Cooling …
- Battery-charging network for electric cars will boost Hawaii

U-Store-It Trust may be moving headquarters to Pennsylvania
The Plain Dealer – cleveland.com OH 
The self-storage company’s executive offices in Suite 2800 of the Terminal Tower downtown are listed as available for lease on the Web site for brokerage firm CB Richard Ellis. A few years ago the self-storage business employed hundreds of people at a corporate headquarters in Middleburg Heights. U-Store-It moved to the Terminal Tower in mid-2007. Now fewer than 25 employees work in roughly 8600 square feet on the tower’s 28th floor. Most office employees work in Baltimore and in Wayne a city in Northeast Pennsylvania near the New York border.

Intel Hitachi Make a Splash In Solid State Storage
Enterprise Storage Forum CT 
A host of other storage system vendors have since announced their own solid state plans including IBM (NYSE: IBM) HP (NYSE: HPQ) and Sun (NASDAQ: JAVA). On the drive side Samsung Seagate (NYSE: STX) and Micron (NYSE: MU) are among the names moving into the enterprise SSD market while Western Digital (NYSE: WDC) has been moving more slowly. One of the more aggressive market entrants has been Intel with co-founder Gordon Moore getting personally involved in the company’s efforts (see. enterprisestorageforum.

Nokia’s OSS strategy gets boost as Symbian deal completed
Ars Technica MA 
At the Nokia World event the company unveiled the N97 its next-generation smartphone. The device has a 3. 5" 640×360 touchscreen a slide-out QWERTY keyboard 32GB of internal storage a 5MP camera GPS WiFi and HSDPA support. The software platform has been tailored to provide tighter integration with social networking services web messaging software and location-aware web technologies.
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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.

Green House Data Chooses Atrato Storage System for Power Cooling …
MarketWatch 
It is Atrato’s high performance standards and total cost ofownership that has enabled us to launch our cloud computing initiative. Green House Data’s current SAN puts significant power requirements on thedata center and takes up an entire 42 units of rack of space. With the V1000the company will be able to reduce its power requirements by 80% whileachieving the same level of capacity and performance in only 6 rack units. This transition will save Green House Data 80% in power and cooling costs inthe coming years. In addition the V1000 opens doors to new revenueopportunities. Green House Data will be able to scale its infrastructure tosupport over 665 clients each utilizing 300 gigabytes of dedicated serverspace; previous configurations allowed them to support only 83 clients withthe same 300 gigabytes of dedicated server space. “By choosing the V1000 system with its high-density form factor GreenHouse Data will not only improve the level of performance for customers butwill also provide the necessary capacity and scalability to meet growingrequirements” asserts Steve Visconti president and CEO Atrato.

Battery-charging network for electric cars will boost Hawaii
Honolulu Star-Bulletin HI 
Installing a network of battery-charging stations cracks open the chicken-and-egg conundrum that has hindered a movement toward electric cars that promises to lessen the use of oil fuels for power production in the islands. A California company recognizing that Hawaii’s geographic advantages – and limitations – make it a practical fit for one of its initial systems has announced plans to put in as many as 100000 stations where drivers can replenish power for electric vehicles. However reducing consumption of oil and decreasing greenhouse gases cannot be achieved unless electricity in the islands is generated by renewable sources which might be years and billions of dollars away. Still the investment by Better Place gives Hawaii a better footing in its goal of boosting renewable energy to meet 70 percent of the state’s needs by 2030. The company also has signed an agreement with Hawaiian Electric Co. to collaborate on the project and pursue more renewable energy sources.