FalconStor Software Inc. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript

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2009-02-05 16:01:09.0

Tags: Call Transcript, Morgan Keegan Co., Earnings, Q4, Storage, Hardware, Seeking Alpha, FalconStor

Question-and-Answer Session

Operator

Thank you sir. (Operator Instructions) Our first question comes from the line of Brian Freed with Morgan, Keegan. Please go ahead.

Brian Freed – Morgan, Keegan

Thank you a couple quick questions first with respect to guidance a lot of companies are training from guidance all together, other companies are going to one quarter, how do you feeling about your level of visibility in terms of forecast from early end pipeline with respect to the guidance you gave?

Unidentified Company Representative

Brain what we did for 2009 is exactly we did at the end of Q3 what we did as look that all the different territories we are looked for trends there we spoke to our partners our channel partners, our OEM partners, definitely took into consideration in the economy and based on that, we came with numbers, that we feel we are comfortable with somewhat so what we did in Q3 and we are fortunate that our Q4 numbers came in at the high end of the guidance. So, I think, based on the steps we took we feel pretty comfort within numbers that we given on a full year basis.

Brian Freed – Morgan, Keegan

Okay, and then secondly with respect to linearity in trend both in the December quarter and quarter today. Can you talk a little about what you saw in December and also what January looks like thus far?

Bernie Wu

You know I think as far as, Q1 I think we are going to see typical seasonality, Q4 this year, we did see a rebound from EMC, which EMC always as a strongest quarter on Q4 we did see some good growth in China are in Q4 we always see strength there. So, that was fairly typical and so we are pleased with there away Q4 came in, and then Q1 like I said, we are seeing typical seasonality I think the pipeline are pretty good and pretty strong from our channel partners, and I think you all see the typical trends that you see that we have seen prior as far as the way our revenues fall out on a quarterly basis

Brian Freed – Morgan, Keegan

Okay, great. And then just a couple of housekeeping item. One can you give us a few metric on how de-duplication did for you either, across the growth et cetera and two can you give us some percentages of your major customers for the quarter.

 

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