Additionally, Cirrascale has concentrated its resources within the storage market ensuring leading-edge technology by partnering with several of the industry’s most notable independent storage software companies to create storage solutions to address the widest variety of industry applications including Big Data, Cloud, HPC, Active Archive and more. This new wave of Software Defined Storage, as implemented by Cirrascale partners, provides increased flexibility, lowers the total cost of ownership of storage and allows for the re-configuration of hardware as storage requirements change. Cirrascale embraces this shift from monolithic black box storage solutions and is dedicated to the ideals of software providing the reliability and survivability of data instead of expensive and proprietary closed hardware.
“With the introduction of this newly expanded storage platform, Cirrascale is once again proving that companies choosing an emerging supplier of storage solutions can significantly increase their competitiveness within their own industries while getting the same level of reliability, scalability and superior price/performance compared to higher cost Tier 1 suppliers,” said David Driggers, Chief Executive Officer, Cirrascale Corporation. “The continued innovation of our blade-based storage products demonstrates our ability to deliver compelling storage solutions that will provide our customers and licensees with investment protection for years to come.”
The Cirrascale CirraStor blade storage solution is immediately available to order and will begin shipping in high volume in Q2 2013. Licensing opportunities for these technologies are also available immediately to both customers and partners.
Popular do-it-yourself shows on television have created a savvy clientele among those looking to build or renovate, but the reality can be overwhelming, according to Lindsay Schultz, owner and designer at Lindsay Schultz Kitchens & Cabinetry.
“Once they step into a showroom and are confronted with thousands of options, they kind of stop dead in their tracks like a deer in the headlights,” said Schultz, who loves to take the lead from there.
While home/cottage owners (or business owners – she also does commercial properties) can shop retail in her showroom for hardware, tiles, accessories and a full line of sinks and faucets, cabinetry always includes design, supply and installation.
“We want to make sure each project is pulled off to our standards,” she said. “What we don’t get involved in is re-facing or reconfiguring existing cabinets.”
Working with two Canadian cabinet manufacturers gives Schultz complete flexibility to fit any design and budget: “It’s like having a woodworking shop behind us – but we don’t.”
“Custom doesn’t mean expensive,” she added. “We are super competitive to our local building centres, but unique. We really understand family, home, budget and timelines.”
Every relationship forged with a new client means a new set of parameters. It can mean helping a little or a lot. Schulz regularly takes on the duties of a general contractor in her projects – 85 per cent of which are renovations. But she can come in and focus solely on the cabinetry, as well.
“We won’t do a full house where they’re gutting everything, but I am able to look at the floor plans, which makes me different because I can help out with so many aspects of the project.”
She has also compiled a strong, reliable group of tradespeople to complete her projects: “An important part of our business is being connected to the right people – because they’re a reflection of (us).”
The graduate of the Academy of Design in Toronto said she enjoys pulling the look of an entire space together, and is often called upon to consult on colours, the backsplash, lighting and flooring – which is all part of the service and included at no extra cost.
“We have an exclusive line of hardwood available,” she added. “It’s a big, big deal these days to pull hardwood into the kitchen. Unless you have a flood where the water’s sitting there for a week, it’s not a problem.”
Having worked for a kitchen-and-bathroom company straight out of school, the longtime Midland resident found her niche without first having to generalize: “It’s honestly what I was meant to do.”
“There is a need to do the water proofing again. We are trying to redesign the structure and install tiles to avoid a leakage,” he added.
“This is a primitive approach to building a pool leaving no space between the ground and the floor of the pool,” explained a city-based civil engineer (on condition of anonymity) who has been involved in building pools in various housing societies and hotels.
“The pools will suffer particularly during the monsoon, sprouting more leaks as the groundwater pressure builds up further,” he explained. He feels the remedy is only in completely reconstructing the pools again. “There is a need to lay a “sole” of small stones, plugging their gaps.
A proper soil testing is required to define the specs of the sole to be created, the chemicals to be used and the kind of water-proofing required. Use of the heavy Shahabadi blocks are alss critical to suppressing any groundwater, he added.
Eight years ago, Srihari Constructions was given an 18-month timeline to deliver the project, which included a two-storey building spread over 7- acres, with a hall for badminton, tabletennis, wrestling and boxing, besides five nets for cricket practice, a basketball court and three synthetic tennis courts.
Other than the tennis courts, none of the other facilities are operational yet. The mini golf course, contracted to another player, is also not in place. The facility today wears a deserted look, as Srihari Constructions managed to get Rs 4.80 crore sanctioned from the government for the repair (essentially to the pools), over and above the project cost of Rs 16 crore.
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