Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Sovran Self Storage Inc. Announces Dividend on Common Stock
- MiniCo Publishing Webinar Series Available as MP3 Audio Downloads
- State Investigates Moving Company
- Cisco’s Data Center Invasion
- Rackspace set to take on Amazon

Sovran Self Storage Inc. Announces Dividend on Common Stock
MSNBC
Sovran Self Storage Inc. is a self-administered and self-managed equityREIT that is in the business of acquiring and managing self-storagefacilities. The Company operates 385 self-storage facilities intwenty-four states under the name “Uncle Bob’s Self Storage”®. For more information please contact David L. Rogers CF or Diane PiegzaVP Corporate Communications at 716-633-1850 or browse the Company’s WebSite at.

MiniCo Publishing Webinar Series Available as MP3 Audio Downloads
PR.com (press release)
In addition to the audio presentation customers will be able to download a PDF version of the slide presentation used during the webinar. Co-Publisher Poppy Behrens noted that the response to the webinar series prompted the company to offer audio files of the presentations. “We have been very pleased with the number of self-storage professionals who attend the live webinars as well as the additional viewers who have watched the archived presentations online” she said. “ffering MP3 audio files of the webinars lets the audience take the presentation ‘on the go’ with them. ”Webinars available for download include "Innovative Marketing Strategies for Tough Economic Times" "Adding Revenue by ffering Tenant Insurance" "Boat & RV Storage: Construction and Development" and "Auditing Self-Storage: Preventing Employee Theft & Embezzlement. " The list of available webinars will be updated periodically.
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State Investigates Moving Company
KPH Phoenix
– A valley woman claimed her moving company tried to take her for a ride. Grace Fuller said movers had refused to deliver her items unless she paid them more than they agreed in the original contract. State inspectors intervened to help resolve the issue Sunday. Movers were not only seven days late but the price agreed upon to move the items had changed.

Cisco’s Data Center Invasion
Forbes
“People may worry about having an all-Cisco data center but right now there’s no other choice. “Cisco on the other hand has argued that its integrated approach is part of what makes unified computing appealing. “Today I have to buy servers from one company storage from another networking from another virtualization software from another. Then you pay a services organization to install all of it and make it work” Doug Gourlay a senior director for Cisco’s data center business unit told Forbes in February. “In 2004 the light went on and we saw we could converge these things into one.

Rackspace set to take on Amazon
NetworkWorld.com
In a further move Sayegh announced that the company was dropping the Mosso brand name that it had used in the US. “It was name that was unknown in the rest of the world” he said “what was the point of keeping it?”Pricing for the Rackspace cloud serices is currently in dollars although the company is moving to local currency pricing before the end of the year. “We hope to have UK pricing up well before then ” he said. He added that Rackspace was also looking to open new data centres in the UK in the near future but wouldn’t be drawn on a date.