🚀 go-pugleaf

rdv at Asaca/Shibasoku headquarters in Japan (MITI?) writes:

>I took over the maintenance of the C.A.S. FAQ from its originator
>in July '94.  I have begun additions and edits of my own...if you
>have any complaints about my fairness, please let me know.
>..(advertisements for his drives)...
>(Repetition of rab mid-80s architecture "competitor" comments
>about widely-demonstrated RAID 7 quantum performance improvements
>over what was available previously)
>...improvement (at one site) poorly measured...

We've got lots and lots of customer performance improvement documentaries 
and many more are in the pipeline.  That's what some of the new people
who have been joining Storage Computer from DEC are working on.  A lot of
the performance documentaries are getting published monthly in Unisys 
World, for example.  (Copies available)  I'd be happy to start posting 
these technical performance improvement documentaries here, say weekly, 
if that's needed to clear up the rab-generated and now 
Asaca/Shibasoku-generated confusion (FUD).

>...difficult-to-substantiate claims about the growth and market success
>of his company relative to competitors.

This shouldn't be difficult at all for someone working in Japan, and 
really interested in the topic.  Anyone in Japan can simply call up our
Japan headquarters at 03 (3477) 0671, schedule a meeting, see a 
performance demonstration, and visit our large number of reference 
installations in Japan (naturally with the customers' permission).  
Perhaps the well-known Japan researcher (comp.research.japan) Dr. Kahaner 
would like to address this topic and report his findings to us.  
Alternatively, some engineering students in Japan (MS EE, CS) could 
investigate this and report to us; storage experience would be preferred.

>Some posters are pleased with their RAID 7 arrays...

As pointed out before, only a tiny fraction of our worldwide installed 
base makes any postings at all to this news group.  They are MIS 
Directors of worldwide organizations with tens or hundreds of thousands 
of users, or their Systems Administrators or DBAs.  They are managing or 
building large, high performance networks and often do not have enough 
time to be aware of and follow topics like this.  They post only when they 
have a specific question about AIX, HP UX, Solaris, VMS, Oracle, Sybase, 
etc. where they need an answer fast.

(BTW, September 30th is the date by which President Clinton and his 
chief trade negotiator Mickey Kantor must decide whether to impose
"Super 301" trade sanctions against Japan.  We are following this very
closely, and can let interested people know what Mickey does.)

Mike Willett
Storage Computer Corp.
11 Riverside Street
Nashua, NH 03062           Tokyo
Tel. 603-880-3005          Tel. 03 (3477) 0671