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 On Feb. 2, 2011, the 2011 Groundhog Day snowstorm, as some are calling it, dumped an excess of five inches of snow in 21 states and resulted in at least 13,000 cancelled flights. The storm happened just a day before the Axis A&E Technology Summit 2011 was scheduled to begin February 3 at the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort in Orlando, Fla., followed by a three-day cruise to the Bahamas aboard the Royal Caribbean’s Monarch of the Seas vessel. For everyone who made it down to Florida for the event from those 21 states, saying the contrast and relief from the cold and snow was “nice” is an understatement. And the timing, while causing some travel headaches, couldn’t have been any more perfect to maximize appreciation of the event’s sunny location. 

 What do Doyle Security, Monitronics, Alarmco, and ADT Security Services all have in common? Their employees won top honors last year in the CSAA Central Station Excellence Awards. 

Welcome visitors, to the new SDMmag.com! On behalf of the entire staff — thank you for regarding SDM as a source for your business needs.

Today, I'm doing one of the things I hate most: packing. SDM's editorial offices are moving this weekend to new digs at 155 N. Pfingsten Road, Suite 205, Deerfield, Ill. 60015. I'm excited to be relocating to a building that houses a larger group of BNP Media employees, and I'm looking forward to exploring a new "neighborhood" next Monday.

It’s quite an accomplishment to win an award once, but to win an award twice, two years in a row no less, is definitely a notable accomplishment. Congratulations to DoorKing

The CBS local channel, CBS 4 in Denver, Colo., reported on this security story. After four statues at the Mother Cabrini Shrine in Golden, Colo., were destroyed by vandals, the

Canvassing the International Builders Show (IBS) usually is like drinking water from a fire hose. Fortunately, this year’s version was easier to ingest. Unlike the last time IBS was in Orlando’s Orange County Convention Center, the 2011 Expo consumed just the West Hall.

At first, I did not notice the all-access design of the NextGen Experience house. But then I spotted Waldemar Alameda, a 39-year-old father of two. He was using a walker to navigate

In the middle of the day-to-day business of security, it is possible to overlook the “feel good” side of security — and that there are little boys and girls growing

Blame it on the recession. Concerns over water quality seem to drop from the public’s radar for much of 2009 and 2010. True, pros who work in this area still