Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Imeem’s iphone App Competes With Apple on Its wn Hardware
- BakBone Acquires ColdSpark Brings Messaging To Data Protection
- Microsoft preps for open-source cloud apps
- Food distributor has plans to build facility in Hanover

Imeem’s iphone App Competes With Apple on Its wn Hardware
Gigam
For Imeem the mobile apps represent a new path to monetization. The company is moving away from a purely ad-supported model and finding other ways to squeeze cash out of users including selling ringtones and tickets. The company has struggled in recent months.

BakBone Acquires ColdSpark Brings Messaging To Data Protection
ChannelWeb
BakBone’s traditional focus has been on data protection. However much of what ColdSpark does is directly tied to data storage such as setting policies and capturing data before e-mails are sent and stored Drescher said. BakBone is in no way moving from its core focus on data protection Drescher said. “But going forward we’ll be focused on the disk side of storage and implementing a lot of technology related to policy-based data and applications” he said. The ColdSpark platform is open in nature and is expected to easily integrate with BakBone’s products Drescher said. Scott Brown co-founder and CT of ColdSpark will stay with BakBone where he will be the general manager of the company’s Message Management division.

Microsoft preps for open-source cloud apps
Register
It will expand the number of database options available on Amazon and keep Sybase in the game – though it’s coming a little late. Amazon’s EC2 currently offers IBM’s DB2 and Informix racle 11g Microsoft’s SQL Server Standard Edition 2005 and MySQL Enterprise. Sybase also said it’s working with Symantec and its Veritas Storage Foundation to optimize its Virtualized Resource Management framework from the company’s.
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Food distributor has plans to build facility in Hanover
Dailyrecord.com
The development would include office space. Mayor Len Fariello said he welcomes E & S and sees the planned development as good news in light of the departure of Alcatel-Lucent. “Business may be moving out of Hanover but it’s moving in as well” he said. “We’re a very desirable township. “Part of the development plan includes pushing back by 30 feet a building that virtually abuts the curb of South Jefferson Road making it hazardous to get out of the parking lot E & S President and Founder Settimo Guttilla said. Subsequent development phases could include doubling the size of the distribution facility and creating a point at which products could be unloaded from railcars directly into the facility. E & S has 35 employees and more than 800 clients in the tri-state area including local pizza restaurants Guttilla said.