Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- American Relocation & Logistics Now an American Moving & Storage …
- Data classification for storage managers
- WM. DUGGAN C. INC. FIRST IN NATIN WITH HYBRID MVING TRUCK
- Lee Moving & Storage bought by western Va. firm
- Broadcom ffers Emulex $764M
- racle-Sun Merger Creates New Data Storage Player

American Relocation & Logistics Now an American Moving & Storage …
PR Urgent
April 22 2009 American Relocation & Logistics (American) a leader in quality relocation warehousing and logistics services and one of the largest Mayflower Transit (Mayflower) agents in Southern California announces that it is officially certified as an American Moving & Storage Association (AMSA) ProMover by virtue of its relationship with Mayflower. AMSA an industry trade group provides ProMover certification only after the designated moving company has passed a background check of its operations and has agreed to abide by a set of honorable business practices and AMSA’s Code of Ethics. “We have always been proud of our association as one of Mayflower’s largest agents in Southern California” says Larry Whittet owner and CE of American. “We are equally as proud of our commitment to excellent service and our own strong code of ethics. “To be recognized and certified by the American Moving & Storage Association is very gratifying” adds Jim Hooper president of American. “Being a ProMover is consistent with American’s long-standing reputation for treating customers courteously honestly and professionally.

Data classification for storage managers
Search Storage
” The storage vendors that offer some level of data classification in their arrays to help users manage the storage more efficiently or data retention schedules tend to offer the deepest capabilities with their own products said Christine Taylor an analyst at Taneja Group in Hopkinton Mass. “The tier ones” she said “aren’t that interested in being able to classify someone else’s data. The challenge arises when trying to automate the process of migrating or moving data from one storage device to another because even small companies might have more than one location for storage. “It’s very very difficult to run a program that goes out to all these storage arrays locates and classifies data and moves it say to a big fat central secondary archive” Taylor said. “This would be wonderful but it’s very difficult to do. Independent vendors that can classify and move data on different vendors’ storage arrays are an alternative Taylor said adding that the list includes Abrevity Inc.

WM. DUGGAN C. INC. FIRST IN NATIN WITH HYBRID MVING TRUCK
dBusinessNews Boston (press release)
located in Walpole MA hasbeen an Atlas agent for 17 years and has won the Atlas Van Lines HaulingExcellence Award multiple times and the Milton M. Hill Quality Award for thepast three years. Duggan’s storage facility has also received Atlas’ SuperiorWarehouse Rating. The company will be celebrating its 25thanniversary in June 2009. For more information contact: (800)561-4808 or visit.

Lee Moving & Storage bought by western Va. firm
Richmond Times Dispatch
firm | Richmond Times-Dispatch. Premier Transfer and Storage based in Christiansburg acquired Lee Moving & Storage on April 3 and announced the deal yesterday. Terms were not disclosed. Lee has changed its name to Premier and its former president George Calabrese is retiring Premier’s marketing manager Jaime Clark said.

Broadcom ffers Emulex $764M
Red Herring
5in;mso-footer-margin:. 5in;mso-paper-source:0;}div. Section1{page:Section1;}–> Chip maker Broadcom on Tuesday said it made an unsolicited offer to acquire storage networking company Emulex for $764 million in cash. 25 per share offer represents a 40 percent premium over Monday?s closing price of Emulex stock. Irvine California-based Broadcom best known for its wireless chips is hoping to exploit a wave of technology integration currently taking place in the modern IT data center. n Monday racle said it will acquire Sun Microsystems for $7.
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racle-Sun Merger Creates New Data Storage Player
Enterprise Storage Forum
“Now racle is getting into totally new markets in which they have no expertise or history. “racle is more likely to hold on to the entire storage business” Roy added. “Sun bought StorageTek and destroyed the company because of poor execution. But racle has been much better in execution and it is very likely that the current storage group within Sun will have a better opportunity to grow. But the deal could also mean a rocky relationship between racle and other storage players like EMC (NYSE: EMC). “racle and EMC had a very good relationship” said Roy.