Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- After 94 Years Stratford-Based Company Is Still Seizing pportunities
- Data Storage Virtualization and the Cloud
- What Are SSDs and How Do They Function in Storage Systems
- Symantec utlines Dedupe Strategy
- Moving company embraces eco-initiative
- Banking on aam aadmi

After 94 Years Stratford-Based Company Is Still Seizing pportunities
Hartford Courant
In 1949 the company was a founding member of. Since the 1970s the company has expanded into record storage and computer recycling to diversify beyond its mainstay moving and storage which includes both household goods and business equipment. While the company ships internationally its regional market runs from the. Meyer hopes to capitalize on a local name that is known in that market. “To a certain extent consumers feel that they have been sold out by some of our major financial institutions” Gillon said.
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Data Storage Virtualization and the Cloud
Datamation
compared to seven years for the Internet. Asaro doesn’t see companies moving all their IT resources into the cloud any time soon. They will continue to do their “bread and butter” applications by buying infrastructure and owning it themselves but will use clouds to augment and enhance their operations. Right now there is solid near-term adoption of clouds in emerging markets startups and SMBs said Rotchford and by 2013 they will be in the enterprise. Rotchford bets on internal clouds as the eventual enterprise winner with external clouds used for non-critical applications. And one day the clouds will separate with the term cloud even fading away over the next 10 years.

What Are SSDs and How Do They Function in Storage Systems
CTR
Pillar will also upgrade Slammer and Brick components as they come to market to increase IPS and bandwidth to the SSD bricks. The company is also looking at placing SSDs into the cache pool and eventually providing different QoS levels of SSDs ? Single Level Cell (SLC) and Multi Level Cell (MLC) technologies. Pillar has a unique advantage with this technology in that it is the only company today that can deliver true storage QoS thereby taking full advantage of the performance gains and power savings of SSDs. Bob Maness is vice president of Worldwide Marketing and Channel Sales for.

Symantec utlines Dedupe Strategy
Enterprise Storage Forum
Matthew Lodge senior director of product marketing at Symantec said the company’s goal is to make dedupe easy for end users. “If it’s more complicated it won’t get done” he said. Lodge said the combination of archiving and eliminating duplicate data can reduce primary storage by 40 percent to 80 percent while adding the technology to backups makes for “smaller and faster backups” reducing backup storage by as much as 95 percent and cutting network traffic. Symantec is also adding support for server. html>virtualization from VMware (NYSE: VMW) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Hyper-V.

Moving company embraces eco-initiative
HazMat Management Magazine (subscription)
1em;padding-left:20px;font-size:1. As the first moving company in the country to convert entirely to alternative energy FlatRate is positioned to lead the trend towards more eco-conscious moving and storage practices that are not only gentle on the environment but on the bottom line as well. Through the addition of the new solar power system for example FlatRate anticipates generating 100 percent of the building’s energy from its solar panels for a total monthly saving of over $12000. Construction on the $500000 project is currently underway and is expected to be complete by the end of the year. “This is a great way to reduce our carbon footprint saving the equivalent of 4654 gallons of gasoline per year” said Sharone Ben-Harosh founder and President of FlatRate Moving and Storage.

Banking on aam aadmi
Business Standard
The government has increased outlays for electrification infrastructure and employement though the National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme and more than half of the revenues of the fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector are from rural India. The Budget is also beneficial to cold storage and refrigeration companies such as Blue Star and Voltas as they expect an increase in business on account of the investment-related incentives given to food and agri business companies for developing cold storage infrastructure for moving agricultural produce. ther goodies include lowered customs duty for the LCD panels from 10 per cent to 5 per cent. LG Electronics India Managing Director Moon B Shin said the decrease in customs duty on LCD panels will enhance the market for LCD TVs. But LG did not comment if there will be an immediate effect on its product pricing. “The move to allow expenditure on in-house R&D at the proposed 150 per cent to all manufacturing entities will encourage technology development in India reducing the import of technical know-how” he further added.