Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- verland Storage Moves Beyond Hardware With Intelligent Appliance
- After 94 Years Stratford-Based Company Is Still Seizing pportunities
- Campus Lofts fficially Moving to Commercial Zone
- ne on ne with Whitney Tidmarsh of EMC
- Data Storage Virtualization and the Cloud
- What Are SSDs and How Do They Function in Storage Systems
- Symantec utlines Dedupe Strategy

verland Storage Moves Beyond Hardware With Intelligent Appliance
ChannelWeb
The fact that verland Storage is moving from its hardware focus to offering intelligence that gets closer to the application is a big deal said Don McNaughton vice president of sales at HorizonTek a Huntington N. -based solution provider and verland Storage partner. “Customers want immediate recoverability for their Exchange and other applications” McNaughton said. “This will work with their existing backup.

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.

Campus Lofts fficially Moving to Commercial Zone
KCAU
This business designs and builds loft style college apartments in Iowa and surrounding states. His current location consists of two sheds and three trailers that are already packed full of lofts and equipment. Some of his lofts don't even have proper storage. Hennings can't hire anymore help because legally his office space isn't big enough. But just 500 yards away this 10000 square foot building currently sits empty. Hennings came up with a plan to move his company into the bigger building in an effort to make more space and hopefully create more jobs. Woodbury County Supervisor Larry Clausen said in the meeting Tuesday to the rest of the supervisors “I'm all for this business but you people have a responsibility and so do the people down there.
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ne on ne with Whitney Tidmarsh of EMC
FierceContentManagement
We have the market’s leading ECM platform to manage and preserve business information we have the market’s leading product family for archiving and compliance (Sourcene) and we have been showcasing Documentum CenterStage for some time now which combines the best of information management with Web 2. In addition EMC is known for providing the best and most cost-effective information infrastructure–from storage platforms to application software. Naturally EMC is also on the forefront of the cloud evolution. What is EMC’s relationship like with Microsoft around SharePoint and how do you deal with what Microsoft’s Christian Finn calls ‘coopetition’ with them? How does CenterStage help you compete with SharePoint?WT: EMC and Microsoft share one of the strongest and most unique relationships across all our mutual products but have a particular strength around SharePoint. To begin with we believe no other vendor partnering with Microsoft around SharePoint can offer software hardware and services support like we can.

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.