Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Carey Group Celebrates 30 Years
- How to avoid being scammed by movers
- 10-K: STRATEGIC STRAGE TRUST INC.
- Technologent Announces the Expansion of Its Virtualization …
- China Ritar Power Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2008 …
- Vendors ptimistic About Macworld Expo 2010
- Door to Door Storage Partners with Loyola University Chicago to …

Carey Group Celebrates 30 Years
Noozhawk
“We think ahead how to give them the best experience possible. We are probably the only self storage that on a hot day a manager will bring ice-cold bottled water to your space. Moving can be stressful and our goal is to be the most helpful person in their moving process. ”The company continues to grow as it ventures into wine storage. “With the wine craze becoming so popular it was just a logical next step for us” Carey said.

How to avoid being scammed by movers
msnbc.com
Here?s how to make your moving bill match the estimate given ? and get your furniture delivered in one piece and on time.   The Big Scams?The Hostage?You get a lowball estimate from a moving company but once they?ve loaded your furniture on their truck they change the charges sometimes doubling or tripling their original quote. If you balk at the number they simply refuse to give you your belongings until you agree to the inflated price. Story continues below ?advertisement |.

10-K: STRATEGIC STRAGE TRUST INC.
MarketWatch (press release)
n March 17 2008 the SEC declared our registration statement effective. n May 22 2008 we satisfied the minimum offering requirements of the Primary ffering and commenced formal operations. As of December 31 2008 we had issued approximately 2. 1 million shares of our common stock for gross proceeds of approximately $20. In addition to being the sponsor of our ffering our Sponsor owns a majority of Strategic Storage Holdings LLC which is the sole member of our Advisor and our Property Manager. n September 25 2008 we closed on the purchase of our first two self storage facilities located in Biloxi Mississippi and Gulf Breeze Florida.

Technologent Announces the Expansion of Its Virtualization …
PR Newswire (press release)
This service allows clients to stay up to date on current best practices capacity planning and identification of potential problems or performance bottlenecks. “There are numerous compelling reasons to virtualize some or all of a computing infrastructure” noted Chris Ciborowski Technologent Chief Technology fficer. “However moving to a virtualized environment involves considering a multitude of factors to be certain that business objectives as well as technical obstacles are met. Technologent works together with our customers to ensure that all these variables are taken into account before the virtualization project is in progress. As part of Technologent’s expansion of their virtualization practice the company has also announced the availability of two new white papers titled: Virtualization Challenges and Why Virtualize? Virtualization involves turning a number of physical hardware computing and networking devices into software and loading them on to a common high-powered hardware platform. The two white papers discuss the numerous considerations in moving to a virtualized environment. Do you have a need to reduce your data center footprint or utility costs while taking into account immediate and future growth?Do you know the utilization rate of your servers and storage?Is your current virtualized infrastructure one dimensional only applying to one technology in the datacenter?Are you planning to deploy server virtualization or would you like to implement virtualization as a means of achieving DR objectives?Does your server environment consist of a large number of single-purpose servers i.

China Ritar Power Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2008 …
FXBusiness
The battery production lines are currently operating at approximately a 60% utilization rate and are expected to reach 80% to 85% by the second or third quarter of 2009. With 19 production lines in operation the Company believes that it has sufficient capacity to support its growth plans for 2009. China Ritar expects revenues from its renewable energy storage batteries to increase to 25% in 2009 from 15% in 2008. The Company does not have any capital expenditure plans at this time. “Stationary lead acid batteries continue to be the preferred energy storage device for standby power applications such as UPS telecom and renewable energy. Furthermore with the initial market success of our proprietary nano gel batteries for wind and solar power storage we expect sales from this segment to increase to 25% of total revenue in 2009″ Mr.
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Vendors ptimistic About Macworld Expo 2010
PC World
Some of the excitement comes from the reduced costs companies will have to pay to attend the show. Early January is still peak holiday travel season so prices usually remain high. For companies transporting several people (sometimes 10 or more) the savings on travel hotels and other associated costs by moving the show to February 9 to 13 can be significant. “As a businessman I need to look at all the costs” Paul Kafasis CE of. “And we need to know that people will be there.

Door to Door Storage Partners with Loyola University Chicago to …
PR Web (press release)
getElementById( “quote_”+randQuotId ). Volunteers of the school will periodically empty the bins during the day and deposit the donated items into the Door to Door storage containers for safe keeping. Loyola University's "Think Green & Give" is presented by the Facilities Management Department Residence Life the Consumption and Reduction Recycling Committee and the Center for Urban Research and Policy (CUERP.