Research and Markets: Future Cloud Computing Trends as Seen in HP-Dell Bidding War for 3PAR Report Analyzes the Bidding Co

September 23, 2010

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DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/5e8f00/future_cloud_compu) has announced the addition of the "Future Cloud Computing Trends as Seen in HP-Dell Bidding War for 3PAR" report to their offering.

Dell announced on August 16, 2010 that the company planned to purchase cloud computing storage provider 3PAR for US$1.15 billion. On August 23, HP proposed to acquire 3PAR at a 33.3% premium above the price offered by Dell, reaching a total of approximately US$1.6 billion. On August 26, HP announced that 3PAR had agreed to the transaction, and HP would pay 3PAR US$1.5 billion for acquiring the company. This report analyzes the bidding competition between Dell and HP and the influences the bidding war will bring to the cloud computing market.

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Touching on 3PAR's cloud computing products, describing the products' functionalities specialties, and advantages
Analysis of the competition in the cloud computing market, touching on the could computing deployment of Dell and HP, projecting the moves that other major companies, such as Novell and Oracle, will take in the cloud computing market
Companies and organizations analyzed or mentioned in the report include: 3PAR, Dell, EDS, EMC, HP, IBM, KCE, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, Perot Systems

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