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• HP and 3Par sign definitive merger agreement

  Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) and 3Par (NASDAQ:PAR) have signed a definitive agreement for HP to buy the California storage vendor for US$2.35 billion, the companies said Thursday.

• Northrop Grumman takes blame for Va. IT services outage

  Northrop Grumman today apologized for an outage that began last Wednesday and caused 26 Virginia state agencies to lose their Web services, some for more than a week.

• HP and 3Par sign definitive merger agreement

  Hewlett-Packard and 3Par have signed a definitive agreement for HP to buy the California storage vendor for US$2.35 billion, the companies said Thursday.

• HP, Hynix to jointly bring next-gen memory to market

  Hewlett-Packard today announced that it has entered into a joint development agreement with Hynix Semiconductor to develop and bring memristor, a new circuit element first demonstrated in HP Labs, to market in future memory products.

• Nanocrystal conductors using 'dirt-cheap material' promise massive 3-D storage

  Rice University announced today that scientists there have created the first two-terminal memory chips that use only silicon, extending the limits of miniaturization subject to Moore's Law.

• NetApp, Syncsort team up on data protection

  NetApp and Syncsort are bringing storage and data protection together in a single product, NetApp Syncsort Integrated Backup, to offer quick backup and restoration of an enterprise's data.

• More IT managers plan to spend less, Oracle struggles with users, survey finds

  A survey of 278 IT managers found that spending on storage systems is expected to remain flat through next year due to a soft economy and new technologies that allow IT administrators to do more with what they already have.

• Xsigo gives Ethernet a path into converged I/O

  I/O virtualization vendor Xsigo Systems is tapping into the most ubiquitous network connections around, offering an appliance that lets enterprises carve many virtual links out of the Gigabit Ethernet or 10-Gigabit Ethernet port built into a server.

• HP ups 3PAR bid to $30 per share, tops Dell's latest

  The bidding war for storage vendor 3PAR continued to escalate Friday, with Hewlett-Packard submitting a new offer of US$30 per share, or $2 billion. The offer topped a $27 per share bid made by Dell earlier in the day.

• HP ups 3PAR bid to $30 per share, tops Dell's latest

  The bidding war for storage vendor 3PAR continued to escalate Friday, with Hewlett-Packard submitting a new offer of US$30 per share, or $2 billion. The offer topped a $27 per share bid made by Dell earlier in the day.

• Intel eyed McAfee for years, Gelsinger says

  Intel considered acquiring either Symantec or McAfee for years before it announced> last week that it would buy the latter, former Intel senior vice president Pat Gelsinger said on Thursday.

• 1-in-4 worms spread through infected USB devices

  Hard on the heels of a report that a USB drive was used to compromise U.S. military networks in 2008, a security company today claimed that 25% of all new worms are designed to spread through the portable storage devices.

• HP raises 3PAR offer to $27 per share, outbids Dell again

  Hewlett-Packard has raised its offer for 3PAR to US$27 per share, outbidding Dell once more as the battle to acquire the California-based storage vendor continues.

• EMC offers upgrades to automated tiering, Clariion and Celerra arrays

  EMC today unveiled upgrades to its midrange Clariion storage array and Celerra network-attached storage (NAS) gateway as well as new block-level data compression technology in its Fully Automated Storage Tiering(FAST) software.

• 3PAR entertains HP's offer, begins merger talks

  3PAR will open discussions with Hewlett-Packard following that company's unsolicited $1.6 billion cash bid for the data storage maker, which exceeded an earlier bid from Dell.