Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from Aaron C. Rakers – Stifel Nicolaus & Co.
Aaron C. Rakers – Stifel Nicolaus & Co.
A housekeeping question, can you give the breakdown of NetApp, how big that was a percentage of your Systems business.
Richard Pearce
Not December, actually, from the last quarter, so approximately 60% of our NSS revenue was NetApp.
Aaron C. Rakers – Stifel Nicolaus & Co.
And you had mentioned that you're seeing some improved order patterns from some of those customers. Maybe it would help us understand, as far as this next quarter, are you forecasting that business to being up sequentially? Just any help there in terms of patterns from that business here looking forward.
Richard Pearce
As I said, we're not giving formal guidance at this stage, but to give some flavor around that, and referring back to the comments I made in the call, and as we have said in previous calls, we are focusing more on our larger customers, and as passed on in Steve's comments, we have seen some of our smaller customers, particularly in the array side of the business, we've actually decided not to focus on those guys.
So going back to those comments, whereas NetApp has continued at a relatively similar level in terms of percentages, previous quarters, we have actually seen increases in Dow that we have announced previously. And IBM, actually the revenue in Q2 kind of doubled from the revenue levels that we have in Q1.
As we look then, into Q3, I think obviously in Q2 we would have seen the benefit in that quarter of network appliances, year end, which always has an effect of making our Q2 normally actually better than our Q3.
As I look out, again, I wouldn't be expecting a significant uptick into Q3, but equally, I wouldn't be expecting at this stage for it to be reducing in that quarter. So I think there's a good likelihood that it will be stable to having some small increases.
Aaron C. Rakers – Stifel Nicolaus & Co.
And then final question on the Storage Infrastructure side of the business, I guess two things. Can you talk about the competitive landscape, i.e. what you have seen from Teradyne at this point.
And then also I would love to get your thoughts on looking out longer term, the impact of pattern media, if you have started to see any deployments relating to that or what we should think about in your business model.
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