Compaq Buys Into the High End of Storage.(Compaq's acquisition of DEC) (Company Business and Marketing) From: ENT | Date: August 12, 1998| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1998 101 Communications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

When Compaq Computer Corp. completed its acquisition of Digital Equipment Corp. in June, among the spoils were Digital's high-end server and network technologies. The acquisition also vaulted Compaq into a top-tier position in the storage market, thanks to the addition of Digital's StorageWorks subsystems. StorageWorks consists of a range of high-end RAID systems, sold primarily into high-end Unix sites.

Since Compaq's storage solutions grew up with the company in the PC server world, the company had a very weak foothold in high-end solutions. With the Digital acquisition, "Compaq ...