Large enterprises are a different story. "The big customers out there aren't necessarily forklifting out Fibre Channel to put in SAS," he says, adding that it could be some time before the value proposition of SAS makes it worthwhile for large deployments.Emulex also fleshed out its embedded storage strategy today, as recently outlined by CEO Jim McCluney. (See Jim McCluney, CEO, Emulex and Emulex 'Re-Positions' .) The vendor took the wraps off an embedded storage switch, the InSpeed SOC 432, which it claims can offer SATA disk drive attachment to Fibre Channel back-ends. "As a result, a customer can use SATA disk drives within a system that has been designed for Fibre Channel," says Smith.