Critical Data Service Company Finds Unusual Niche In Japan.ST. PAUL St. Paul as a missionary he fearlessly confronts the “perils of waters, of robbers, in the city, in the wilderness.” [N.T.: II Cor. 11:26] See : Bravery , Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 1, 1995--Ontrack Data Recovery of Eden Prairie Eden Prairie A city of eastern Minnesota, a residential suburb of Minneapolis. Population: 57,300. has made significant inroads inroads Noun, pl make inroads into to start affecting or reducing: my gambling has made great inroads into my savings inroads npl to make inroads into [+ into the Japanese computer marketplace through a technology transfer agreement and a marketing arrangement with a Japanese computer equipment distributor. "Japanese have such confidence in their quality of product, they don't allow for unnatural failures," said John Pence, president of Ontrack. "No matter how good a computer system, there can be an unpredictable crisis -- fire, flood, virus, sabotage sabotage [Fr., sabot=wooden shoe; hence, to work clumsily], form of direct action by workers against employers through obstruction of work and/or lowering of plant efficiency. Methods range from peaceful slowing of production to destruction of property. or vandalism The intentional and malicious destruction of or damage to the property of another. The intentional destruction of property is popularly referred to as vandalism. It includes behavior such as breaking windows, slashing tires, spray painting a wall with graffiti, and . "That's where we come in -- recovering data from damaged optical systems, hard drives, tapes and floppy 1. (programming, tool) Floppy - A Fortran coding convention checker. A later version can generate HTML. See also Flow. ffccc posted to comp.sources.misc volume 12. 2. floppy - floppy disk diskettes," Pence said. This computer system doctor has the remedy for ailing systems where standard access routes have failed. To a company with millions of dollars in data tied up -- believed lost -- Ontrack Data Recovery is like an angel of mercy. But getting Ontrack into the Japanese market required consulting and ingenuity from trade representatives at the Minnesota Trade Office (MTO MTO Make-To-Order MTO More Than One MTO Made to Order MTO Microsystems Technology Office MTO Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (government of Ontario, Canada) MTO Monto MTO Mediterranean Theater of Operations ), a division of the Department of Trade and Economic Development. It resulted in a triangular business agreement. "The MTO was an important player on our team," Pence said. "With its advice, we asked the right questions and avoided problems." First, a technology transfer agreement was negotiated with Y-E Data, a $250 million floppy disc manufacturer that is a subsidiary of Yaskawa Electric. This was extremely important because of the proprietary techniques, involving intellectual property rights, that Ontrack uses to recover lost data. Second, a marketing agreement was developed with Otsuka Shokai, a computer equipment distributor with nationwide retail sales and service connections. Finally, Y-E Data opened a data recovery center in April and Ontrack was up and running in Japan. Inkie Rutgers, Japan trade representative at the MTO, said Ontrack is so satisfied with the Japanese agreement that it is considering similar negotiations in Germany and France. CONTACT: Minnesota Trade Office Kathy Stone, 612/297-1491 or Ontrack Computer Systems Janet Hance, 612/937-1107 |
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