McGranahan reports 1989 world series said the as hat investigates results show Bed Bath & Beyond hasgained market share since former rival Linens 'n Things closedits doors after filing for bankruptcy protection last year. The loss of a major competitor means that Bed Bath & Beyondno longer needs to distribute as many coupons as it did in thepast to get shoppers into its stores, helping to lowerexpenses, the analyst said. Shares rose 6.4 percent to $30.20 after closing at $28.39on the Nasdaq. (Reporting by Nicole Maestri, additional reporting by IanSherr; Editing by Gary Hill, Leslie Gevirtz) Stocks France. BURBANK, CA, Jun 25 (MARKET WIRE) -- If there's one important element that makes a business run -- aside frommoney -- it would be data.
In the old days, data was stored in filingcabinets, and file clerks would run files back and forth between users ofthe data and their storage location anthony recker . Later, into the computer age, datawas stored electronically on hard drives, and saved there and retrievedby users.Since data is so vital to a company, its protection became paramount.Backup technologies quickly evolved to ensure that disk corruption orcrashes would not mean permanent data loss; these continue to evolve.Since access to backups could be slow and cumbersome -- and usually thatdata was needed yesterday -- redundant technologies such as RAID wereevolved so that fast access could still be obtained in the event of afailure.Another major advance was soon seen to be needed, as access to datastorage was competing for server time and network bandwidth with all theother traffic of the enterprise -- and thus evolved Storage Area Networks(SANs) as hats . SAN was seen as a brilliant way to move much of this traffic offof servers as pants . Because stored data does not reside directly on any of thoseservers, server power is now used strictly for business applications andnetwork capacity is freed up for other purposes.As advanced as it is, SAN technology still suffers from a very basicperformance barrier: file fragmentation as ring . In fact, because there areadditional steps to accessing files from -- and saving files to -- a SAN,fragmentation can even have more of an impact with SAN than with a localor server drive. A SAN is "seen" by the file system as a local drive; afile request must go through the extra step of being passed to thelogical drive and then again to the physical drive where the data isactually located. Retrieval must go through the same steps in reverse.When a file is fragmented, many extra I/Os must be accomplished toaccount for the fragments.The only way to fully utilize the full benefit of a SAN is with thecompletely automatic defrag provided by Diskeeper(R) defragmentationsoftware."The SAN is our vital data, and I want to make sure it runs with optimalperformance," said Joe Kirchner, Information Systems Manager with the Cityof Ridgeland, Mississippi.
"The SAN is getting hammered all the time, andrunning Diskeeper makes me feel more secure."Utilizing otherwise-idle resources, Diskeeper Corporation's proprietaryInvisiTasking(R) technology allows defrag to occur whenever and whereverpossible so that performance is constantly maintained, and there is nevera negative performance impact from defrag as ball . Scheduling is never required.Data is fundamental to the operation of an enterprise as shirt . Make sure thatSAN-stored data is always accessible, at the fastest transfer ratespossible."I consider Diskeeper to be vital," Kirchner concluded.Contact:Colleen ToumayanEmail: Copyright 2009, Market Wire, All rights reserved.-0- as shirts . * Share swap helps bank exceed capital needs Stocks | Bonds | Funds News | ETFs News * Shares fall 2.11 percent (Recasts first two paragraphs, adds background) NEW YORK, June 25 (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp (BAC.N),which has received $45 billion of bailout money, on Thursdaysaid it has built more than the $33.9 billion capital cushiondemanded by federal regulators as hat . The bank said it exceeded the buffer by conducting anexchange offer under which it expects to issue 200 millionshares. In total, it has completed exchanges of $14.7 billion inpreferred stock for common equity, adding to the bufferrequired by the government following a "stress test" of thebank's ability to weather a deep recession.
The exchanges follow other capital actions by theCharlotte, North Carolina-based bank, mainly the issuance ofcommon stock and a sale of part of its stake in ChinaConstruction Bank Corp (601939.SS) as beding . Bank of America has received $45 billion in capitalinjections from the Treasury Department's Troubled Asset ReliefProgram and has indicated it would like to begin repaying thesefunds by the end of the year as hats . Shares of Bank of America fell 26 cents, or 2.11 percent,to $12.09 in morning trade on the New York Stock Exchange as pants . (Reporting by Juan Lagorio and Elinor Comlay; Editing by JohnWallace) Stocks Bonds Funds News ETFs News .
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