CoRAID, our current SAN vendor, has been working internally to determine the reasons for our multiple disk failures. After a discussion with one of their suppliers they determined that about 50 of our units had their backplanes recalled by the supplier. But CoRAID wasn’t notified.

We’re preparing a plan to replace those units and repair the backplanes. I’ll have more information about that plan during the coming week.

On the replacement SAN front we’ve finalized the need for fiber channel to the db class machines and are working with vendors to rectify configurations and we’re adjusting our TCO calculations. We have more discussions planned for the coming next week on how that will affect our customers.

I’ll also been on the Weekly Customer Conference call to field questions.

Thank You,

Edward Muller