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Do any particular market segment(s) hold potential for VARs selling SAS-2 hardware?

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Do any particular market segment(s) hold potential for VARs selling SAS-2 hardware?

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Schulz: At the high end of the market, for the near-term future, from a server to the storage system, that’s going to remain Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet [and] NAS, with some iSCSI. But on the back end of those storage systems, you’ll see more and more SAS in terms of the disk drives that are inside those storage systems. At the lower end of the market, that’s where you’re seeing [Serial Attached SCSI] inside the servers for drives that are inside the servers, even in the enterprise servers that have disk drives, those servers are also now shipping with SAS drives. At the lower end, you’re going to see [a continuance] from the server to the storage, as well as the drives that are in the storage systems being SAS. The third scenario is in the massive scale-out scenario, where, maybe you’re building a large-scale website or large-scale hosting or large-scale cloud or even a large bulk-type storage environment. Increasingly, what I’m seeing being deployed are the smaller mod

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