Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from Aaron Rakers with Wachovia Capital Markets.
Aaron Rakers – Wachovia Capital Markets
First question for me, given according to my model it’s kind of a bit more of a tempered storage infrastructure outlook going into the August quarter, can you just, and are you reaffirming your prior full year guidance?
Richard Pearce
I think the only guidance we have provided was back in January. We gave revenue guidance for the whole company and I think we’re still comfortable with that and the third quarter outlook that we provided, while recognizing that they are slightly down from where the consensus numbers are. I don’t think that they’re necessarily surprising or elsewhere from where we actually expected to be. So, I guess the answer is, yes, we are comfortable with the guidance that we gave at the beginning of the year.
Aaron Rakers – Wachovia Capital Markets
And just to maybe clarify that a little bit, so I think I’m thinking about things right. When you originally gave that guidance you were basically assuming a flattish-type SI number for the full year. That is still your assumption, and given that, that would imply a pretty hefty pick up going into the fiscal fourth quarter.
Richard Pearce
Yes, I think it won’t be far away from flattish, that’s correct. I think the range I see for SI business in Q4 is still relatively wide and I think we’ve been pretty consistent in saying we are uncertain at this time when the actual ramp for our SI customers will begin. I think there are some timing issues within that but I think that overall flattish is still relatively good guidance from that perspective, but probably without giving any guidance here for Q4, getting to the levels of last year, or even above those levels, would imply a relatively large ramping for Q4 and that would be toward the top end of the range as I would look at it today.
Aaron Rakers – Wachovia Capital Markets
Can you just quantify, like you have in the past, the net contribution within the Networked Storage systems business and then you also mentioned a pick up in demand in the final couple weeks of the quarter. Is that broad-based or is that more specific to certain customers that you’re seeing? Any color on that would be very helpful.
Steve Barber
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