It looks like it is finally over this time, with Hewlett-Packard declaring victory over Dell in the acquisition bidding war for 3PAR, maker of systems and software for data storage and information management.
3PAR is the owner of many intellectual property rights in the area of enterprise storage, as well as a producer of a wide range of enterprise storage products, including hardware disk arrays and storage management software. 3PAR first shipped their flagship InServ storage server in September 2002. 3PAR’s primary competitors in the enterprise storage market are EMC Corporation, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM and Hewlett-Packard. 3PAR has been called a “pioneer and champion” for thin provisioning, a mechanism to improve the utilization efficiency of storage capacity deployment. 3PAR first announced this capability in June 2002 and shipped it to customers in 2003.
Source:http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2010/09/03/hp-finally-wins-out-over-dell-in-the-3par-bidding-war/
