advantage. | Market analysis February 8,2013 | Extra Space StorageGaining a competitive advantage. | Background Information: According to the National Association of REITs, “self-storage REITs have had the strongest returns out of all publicly traded REITs over the past two years. In 2011, self-storage REITs had a 35.4% return, whereas the overall REIT market realized 8% returns. Generally speaking, REITs are relatively low risk, as 90% of all profits must be returned to shareholders.
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Cloudy Weather for Enterprise Storage – an Enterprise Storage Veteran Looks Forward July 2014 by Dave Roberson Executive Summary This whitepaper looks at the root causes of user demands for better, cheaper storage services and IT’s options to meet those demands. In particular, it explains how the shift in value off proprietary hardware and onto open software stacks is happening in storage just as happened over the last decade with server virtualization. Enterprise storage as we have known it for the
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public cloud computing services “The agility, cost savings and fast response times of public cloud services can afford financial enterprises huge business opportunities”,says Stephen Schmidt, vice-president and chief information security officer of Amazon Web Services (AWS).As is becoming more and more known to us,public cloud computing services promises to play an important part in our society. A cloud is called a "public cloud" when the services are rendered over a network that is open
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out storage space. Self-Storage is an industry in which storage space is rented out to tenants, usually on a monthly basis. The storage space is usually in the form of a room, container or locker. Access to the space is usually secured by the tenant’s own lock and key. Clients include individuals, who usually store household goods, as well as businesses, which use the facilities for storing inventory or archives. As of 2009, there was approximately 2.3 billion square feet of rentable storage space
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CMGT/442 Mr. Thomas Maricle February 23, 2011 Abstract The purpose of this paper is to identify the possible risks to an organization in each of the following outsourcing situations: a) the use of an external service provider for your data storage; b) the use of an enterprise service provider for processing information systems applications such as a payroll, human resources, or sales order taking; c) the use of a vendor to support your desktop computers; and d) the use of a vendor to provide
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- Competitor Pricing 3 Figure 2 - SWOT Analysis 5 Figure 3 - Locations and Pricing 8 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY WK Investments operates 4 self storage facilities in the Midland/Odessa area. These facilities operate as Loop 250 Self Storage Center and Midkiff Self Storage Center in Midland, and as West County Road Self Storage Center and Grandview Self Storage Center in Odessa. While the company is the market leader in this area, we feel there are certain measures the company can take that will help
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handle applications.In cloud computing, the word cloud (also phrased as "the cloud") is used as a metaphor for "the Internet," so the phrase cloud computing means "a type of Internet-based computing," where different services -- such as servers, storage and applications -- are delivered to an organization's computers and devices through the Internet. Cloud computing is comparable to grid computing, a type of computing where unused processing cycles of all computers in a network are harnesses to solve
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1st Edition, June 2009 Abstract Cloud computing promises to increase the velocity with which applications are deployed, increase innovation, and lower costs, all while increasing business agility. Sun takes an inclusive view of cloud computing that allows it to support every facet, including the server, storage, network, and virtualization technology that drives cloud computing environments to the software that runs in virtual appliances that can be used to assemble applications in minimal time
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10 4.1.2 Platform as a Service (PaaS) 11 4.1.3 Software as a Service (SaaS) 11 4.2 Deployment Models 4.2.1 Private Clouds 12 4.2.2 Public Clouds 12 4.2.3 Community Clouds 13 4.2.4 Hybrid Clouds 13 5. Issues 5.1 Security 14 5.2 Privacy 14 6. Conclusion 15 7. Recommendations 16 8. References 17-18 9. Appendices 19-20 i.
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Business Analytics using Secured Cloud Storage System M Swetha Chandra1, M Suma Latha2, KODAVATIKANTI S M Aditya Kumar3, S K R Swamy4 1,2,3,4 Department of CSE, TRR College of Engineering, Inole, Patancheru, Hyderabad, AP, India 1 sweet.smily99@gmail.com 2 msumalathacse@gmail.com 3 smaditya@gmail.com 4 kramas2004@yahoo.com | | | ABSTRACT Business analytics go far beyond reports, dashboards, and scorecards. Analytic impact occurs after the numbers are delivered, and analytic value is
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