Smithfield Foods is donating 40,000 pounds of protein to New Orleans via a truck shipment to support hunger relief in the wake of catastrophic damage inflicted by Hurricane Ida, one of the most intense hurricanes to ever strike Louisiana, which left nearly a million residents without power or water on the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
A team of Mountaire employees helped people in the Lake Charles, Louisiana, area hard hit recently by Hurricane Laura. The company sent 40,000 pounds of chicken to assist Operation BBQ Relief, a non-profit group of competitive barbecue chefs that deploy to disaster areas to provide hot meals.
Follett LLC, a designer and manufacturer of ice and refrigeration solutions, replaced its legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) backup system with Veeam Availability Suite from Veeam Software, Wellesley, Mass.
ExaGrid, a Westborough, Mass.-based provider of disk-based backup storage, and OffsiteDataSync, a provider of data retention, disaster recovery (DR) and hosted cloud computing services based in Rochester, N.Y., entered into a strategic partnership to deliver ExaGrid Disaster Recovery as a cloud service.