Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- 3 Reasons to Consider Hewlett-Packard Now
- EMC Launches Atmos nLine Storage as a Service
- Chief Automotive moving Neb. production to Ind.

3 Reasons to Consider Hewlett-Packard Now
Seeking Alpha
PC sales declines definitely hurting HP more than other players. That because HP still has a significant legacy desktop business for corporate customers something that is rapidly shrinking. But HP is quickly moving away from desktops and also moving its prices down towards more competitive levels. HP also will perform well in netbooks as it has a superior retail sales channel as compared to competitors. We don’t think Windows 7 really matters much in the short term but consumers will become more frustrated with their machines as broadband connections speed up and multimedia and TV continues to move the PC. That will fuel some upgrade cycles. HP is still generating plenty of cash.
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EMC Launches Atmos nLine Storage as a Service
PC World
While you don’t need Atmos to use Atmos onLine EMC is offering federation to allow clients to set policies that determine the automatic federation of information between what it’s calling your “private cloud” and your on-premises data centre based on its sensitivity. In a media briefing at the storage vendor’s annual EMC World user conference Mike Feinberg EMC’s senior vice-president cloud infrastructure group said the ever increasing amounts of rich data content being generated require new storage strategies. He doesn’t see any business moving its storage infrastructure to the cloud entirely. Rather it’s always going to be a hybrid model. But the cloud will need to play an increasing role to address storage challenges efficiently and with flexibility. “We’ve got to embrace a hybrid model. You don’t have to have Atmos in the data centre” said Feinberg.

Chief Automotive moving Neb. production to Ind.
Forbes
The new group includes Rotary Consolidated which makes vehicle service and storage lifts at its headquarters plant in Madison Ind. Grand Island production will end July 17 Frisbie said but sales and service work will continue in Grand Island probably until the end of the first quarter 2010. He said the plant’s 66 workers will have a shot at other jobs for Dover or will be offered a severance package. ther company employees – mostly for sales and service – are based elsewhere in the country and around the world Frisbie said.