Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) We will go first to Louis Miscioscia with Cowen & Company. Louis, your line is up and go ahead.
Louis Miscioscia - Cowen & Company
Okay. Just found the mute button. So, on the gross margin line, how much help did you get from just DRAM pricing still staying very soft?
Mark Barrenechea
I mean, 24 points of gross margin is a very strong quarter for us, and I would say the number one contributor to those 24 points was market diversification and product mix. Secondly, our value proposition as energy prices soar, is very compelling and we're a discreet manufacturer and we operate it very well. We certainly did get some benefit, but where sometimes you would rank a component price improvement 1 or 2, I'd have to put DRAM prices down 4 or 5, in what contributed to a stellar Q1 in gross margin.
Louis Miscioscia - Cowen & Company
Okay. And when you mentioned a mix shift, was it just more highly configured high-end kind of boxes? Maybe if you could just give us a little more detail there?
Mark Barrenechea
Sure. The contributors to gross margin, are typically a level of performance in operations and supply chain, pricing and customers and product mix. So, where close to 60% of our mix was base markets, 19% of our business was storage in Q1. And we saw a fair amount of business building high end tailored solutions for database environments as well as a fair amount of growing our database class.
Louis Miscioscia - Cowen & Company
And was that in a NAS or SAN environment?
Mark Barrenechea
I would characterize it more as a network attached environment.
Louis Miscioscia - Cowen & Company
Okay, I've got a couple more. Let me just let somebody else go and I'll just circle back in.
Operator
We will go next to Mark Kelleher with Canaccord Adams.
Mark Kelleher - Canaccord Adams
Good afternoon, thanks for taking my call. On the revenue side, you talked about some transition of unprofitable revenue. Is there a way to size how much that affected the revenue number and could you give us an example of what an unprofitable revenue is?
Mark Barrenechea
Sure. Well, I'd spoken in the last call that I wasn't going to get into the specific revenue numbers, customers or product lines and still not going to get to that level of specificity. What I would say is, strategy is about making choices and the choice we've made is profitable growth. And Q1 is a very good example where we've had strong gross margin, EPS, cash, versus trading off slightly higher revenues at poor gross margins. We're going to compete for every piece of business out there. We're going to hold to our value proposition, and the strategy choice we have made is profitable growth.
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