Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Thinking outside the storage box
- Fibre Channel over Ethernet: allowing the big data-center synch
- Don’t let the thin-provisioning gotchas getcha
- Rentable bins: Moving day without all the waste

Thinking outside the storage box
NetworkWorld.com MA 
Still his company’s storage needs keep growing Madejczyk says. “In this economy Sterling is being very responsible and careful about what we spend on” he says. “We’re concentrating on the data-management part of the problem and we’re seeing results. But it’s a difficult problem to solve. Tom Amrhein CI at Forrester Construction in Rockville Md.

Fibre Channel over Ethernet: allowing the big data-center synch
NetworkWorld.com MA 
“The economy will certainly get more companies to look at FCoE” he says. “If vendors can show how FCoE can reduce the cost of powering cooling and cabling that will be a compelling reason for companies to look at it. At a minimum adopting FCoE lets a company consolidate server hardware and cabling at the rack level. That’s the first step in moving to FCoE. Then more consolidation can take place in the core switching fabric and that reduces costs even further. Ultimately storage arrays will support FCoE natively (NetApp already has announced such a product) making end-to-end FCoE possible.

Don’t let the thin-provisioning gotchas getcha
NetworkWorld.com MA 
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Rentable bins: Moving day without all the waste
Santa Rosa Press Democrat CA 
ver the phone Brown explained the deal. He would show up at Mimlitsch’s place with a truck filled with Recopacks rentable plastic bins made entirely from recycled plastic. Mimlitsch would pack them a moving company would transport them and Brown would pick them up empty one week later. Mimlitsch was sold. Commonly usedFor years Fortune 500 companies have rented reusable plastic crates to relocate from one office to another. Pharmacies and supermarkets regularly use them to ship merchandise. Now the crates are coming to the residential moving market thanks to consumers’ desire for options they see as both convenient and environmentally responsible and to the cost of cardboard boxes (which has remained high in many areas in spite of a recent collapse in the cost of the recycled cardboard from which most are partly made).
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