Parkway's share price is up about 86% since then, making it the top-performing U.S.-listed REIT over that period, according to financial research company FactSet.

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The winner in all this would seem to be Porsche, which could end up making a tidy packet from the two-day jump in Volkswagen's share price.

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More intriguing: instances where insiders are buying company shares--usually a clear indication that the folks making the big decisions think their company's stock price is going up.

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The price of storage continues to decline significantly, up to 30-40 percent per year, making it more cost effective to add capacity than to spend the valuable time and effort required to find and delete data.

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