Moving and Storage Business News

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- JK Moving & Storage Presents Environmental Sustainability Award
- KeyBanc Upgrades Public Storage Reiterates Hold on U-Store-It
- Extra Space Storage Inc. Reiterates Previously Announced First …
- Moving to a system from Compellent helped the retailer eliminate …
- Healthcare Ad Firm Prescribes VTL for Backups
- American Steel Building’s CE Publishes ‘Self Storage The Journey’

JK Moving & Storage Presents Environmental Sustainability Award
Inside Self-Storage
is awarding its inaugural Environmental Sustainability Award to the Crystal City Business Improvement District. The company will officially present the award during an open house at its Sterling Va. headquarters on March 26.

KeyBanc Upgrades Public Storage Reiterates Hold on U-Store-It
Inside Self-Storage
According to the analyst both companies have acknowledged that while the self-storage industry may outperform other commercial property types it is not immune to economic volatility. Management teams from both companies have indicated that renter move-outs are outpacing move-ins and commercial tenants may be on a decline this year. The KeyBank analyst cautioned investors about jumping into the sector too early as the company expects self-storage to experience pressure from several economic and capital-market factors. At the same time it views upside and downside risks to be more balanced. Source: StreetInsider.
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Extra Space Storage Inc. Reiterates Previously Announced First …
CNNMoney.com
The Company’s properties comprise approximately 475000units and over 50 million square feet of rentable space. For Information:James verturfExtra Space Storage Inc. (801) 365-4501Mark CollinsonCCG Investor Relations(310) 477-9800PHNE (801) 562-5556FAX (801) 562-55792795 East Cottonwood Parkway Suite 400Salt Lake City Utah 84121.

Moving to a system from Compellent helped the retailer eliminate …
Byteandswitch.com
“The number one reason was that we were not able to manage the proliferation of storage before” he says. “We run a very lean operation. We have about 75 servers and about 50 TB of storage. The company’s existing storage systems and the lean operation were causing problems. “We had a legacy EMC Clarion and some HP SAN components” he says. “We had a lot of DAS some external and some internal. We had a lot of little silos and were running from one to the next dealing with the problems of dedicated systems.

Healthcare Ad Firm Prescribes VTL for Backups
Byteandswitch.com
The company had staggered its backup times so all of its data was copied weekly. As the time needed to complete the different backups grew it became more difficult to finish the work within the various backup time windows. There were also problems whenever the company had to recover data. “The time needed to recovery important data was increasing from three to four days” says IT director Chris Watkis.

American Steel Building’s CE Publishes ‘Self Storage The Journey’
PR Web (press release)
Most of those in the industry are aware of ASB's customer service awards and policies. According to Brown this customer service attitude was the main reason for this undertaking. According to another large steel company executive one of the main questions people have is is it too late to get involved? "This book will help them decide if it is for them" says Brown. Those business people (both men and women) who are already in the business also need ideas on how to increase profits. Most industry analysts agree that this economy is adding fuel to the fire in the self-storage industry. With re-locations foreclosures and all the other resulting effects there will always be a need for the storage industry and it is flourishing. For more information please visit:.