History: All Acquisitions of Hewlett-Packard of Companies Involved in Storage

Here are all the acquisitions of companies involved in storage by Hewlett-Packard and then Hewlett-Packard Enterprise:

Month	Year	Acquired company	Price in $ million	Activity of acquired company or comments
6	1999	Transoft Networks	NA	SAN management software
9	2001	StorageApps	350	Virtualization software
9	2001	Compaq	25,000	Enormous deal in the PC industry and a big one for storage
12	2003	Persist Technologies	NA	Grid storage and CAS
5	2005	Schlumberger B’ss Continuity Services	NA	Disaster recovery services in Ireland
10	2005	AppIQ	300	SRM software
3	2006	Outerbay	100+	Data base archiving software
0	2007	Opelin	NA	Online services including storage, backup and data migration
0	2007	Opsware	1,600	Data center automation and SRM
3	2007	PolyServe	NA	Software for NAS virtualization
5	2008	Tower Software	NA	Document and records management
10	2008	LeftHand Networks	360	iSCSI SAN solutions
7	2009	Ibrix	NA	Clustered NAS
9	2010	3PAR	2,350	Virtualized storage systems
8	2011	Autonomy	10,300	UK-based enterprise software company
2	2016	Trilead	NA	Swiss firm in backup for VMware and Hyper-V
8	2016	SGI	275	HPC
1	2017	SimpliVity	650	Software for hyperconverged infrastructure
3	2017	Nimble Storage	1,090	Hybrid and all-flash systems
11	2018	BlueData	NA	Software that transforms how enterprises deploy AI and big data analytics