Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Hiring a Mover
- Home Storage NetApp Chief: ‘We`re Not for Sale`
- Sovran Self Storage looks to the sun
- Moving company thrives during slow times

Hiring a Mover
American Profile
Your real estate agent also may be able to suggest a moving company. Contact your local Better Business Bureau to see if the company has a history of unresolved complaints. Check to see if the company is certified by the American Moving & Storage Association (.

Home Storage NetApp Chief: ‘We`re Not for Sale`
Channel Insider
nce the acquisition closes NetApp plans to operate DataDomain as aseparate product line with separate product and development management. NetApp is a consistent mention in the Silicon Valley sport ofacquisition-and-consolidation speculation. Likely suitors for the $4billion storage company include Cisco Hewlett-Packard IBM EMC andDell. Rumors have persisted for years that Cisco and NetApp engaged inacquisition talks but nothing leading to a serious offer. Warmenhoven addressed each potential suitor:EMC: Least likely acquirer Warmenhoven says since any dealwould likely not survive challenges by rival vendors or antitrustregulator review. Dell: While Dell is doing well with products acquiredthrough EqualLogic Warmenhoven says the struggling PC manufacturer’s”market cap doesn’t have the firepower to make an acquisition” ofNetApp size. IBM: IBM and NetApp have enjoyed a strong alliance forseveral years and IBM has access to NetApp technology and researchers.
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Sovran Self Storage looks to the sun
Buffalo News
The company also has been offering discounts to customers ranging from the first month rent-free to allowing consumers to name their own price for the second month. The purpose of those discounts is to lure new customers to keep occupancy levels up even as the number of customers moving out of Sovran facilities inches up by as much as 2 percent. Residential customers typically stay for about 11 months. Still Sovran executives said they are seeing some encouraging signs in the market with more customers moving into the company’s 385 Uncle Bob’s facilities in April and so far in May than are moving out. That’s something that hasn’t happened since before the downturn started to hit Sovran last September said David Rogers the company’s chief financial officer. Yet Rogers still is smarting from the downgrade earlier this week by Fitch which cost the company one of the two investment- grade ratings it needed to keep its preferred interest rates on its debt. Without it Sovran’s borrowing costs will rise by about $2.

Moving company thrives during slow times
The Desert Sun
We want to help with the arrangements and make things less stressful” said GP Gerber owner of Affordable Movers. Gerber recently took over Affordable Movers which has been in business for nearly five years from his stepson and former owner Mike Yakovich. Though Gerber has Affordable Movers which provides home moving services Yakovich continues to run Valleywide Curbside Mobile Storage which provides mobile self-storage. The two decided their businesses would share space at 19-533 McLane St. The adjustments have been profitable. Since the beginning of the year figures for Affordable Movers have gone up 20 percent Gerber said. He has also modified fees on a case-by-case basis to assist people going through foreclosures and other hardships Gerber said.