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Storage Financials Take a Dip: Page 3 of 3

  • "Our revenues were lower than expected," CEO ReiJane Huai admitted. He blamed the shortfall on seasonality and delayed deals with customers and said his company will add salespeople, systems engineers and marketing staff. "We remain confident about the fundamentals of our business," he said.

    Analyst Steve Berg of Punk Ziegel wrote in a note to clients that FalconStor was hurt by poor sales of its software on virtual tape libraries (VTLs) sold by OEM partners EMC and Sun but recent OEM deals with IBM, Intel, and Huawei 3COM could help it rebound.

  • Emulex's poor earnings were no surprise. The HBA vendor revealed on April 11 that it expected revenues of about $88 million or $89 million, and it came in at $89.3 million down 13 percent from last year and 19 percent from last quarter. Emulex blamed the shortfall on deferred launches of 4-Gbit/s HBAs from two OEMs, believed to be IBM on the server side and EMC or HP on storage.

    — Dave Raffo, Senior Editor, Byte and Switch

    Organizations mentioned in this article:

  • A.G. Edwards
  • Dell Inc. (Nasdaq: DELL)
  • EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC)
  • Emulex Corp. (NYSE: ELX)
  • FalconStor Software Inc. (Nasdaq: FALC)
  • Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ)
  • Hitachi Data Systems (HDS)
  • IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM)
  • LSI Logic Corp. (NYSE: LSI)
  • Overland Storage Inc. (Nasdaq: OVRL)
  • Punk Ziegel & Co.
  • Seagate Technology Inc. (NYSE: STX)
  • Wedbush Morgan Securities