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Compaq StorageWorks Awarded Best of Breed in InternetWeek Lab Tests (Advisory)
HOUSTON, October 9, 2001
For the second year in a row, Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE: CPQ) proved that its storage area networks (SAN) are the best in the industry by taking home InternetWeek's "Best of Breed" award in the magazine's comprehensive SAN Lab Test.
Compaq's StorageWorks™ Solution beat out IBM's Shark and QLogic for top honors in InternetWeek's SAN Lab Test, which was conducted at the University of Hawaii Advanced Network Computing Laboratory. Compaq received A's in each of seven categories.
Although Compaq's products were also hailed as the best of breed last year, its current entry was reported to be increasingly interoperable, allowing users to implement a wide array of servers such as the IBM RS/6000 and add nodes with Fibre Channel cards from a variety of manufacturers. The system received extra points for separating two SANs with 25 kilometers of fiber, maintaining no single point of failure. Additionally, Compaq delivered the only uninterrupted high-definition video stream of the participating vendors.
For more specific details on the InternetWeek SAN
Lab Test and Best of Breed award please see http://www.internetweek.com/enterprise/enterprise092401-3.htm
or http://www.internetweek.com/enterprise/enterprise092401-4.htm
for how SANs were tested. For more information on the Compaq
StorageWorks offerings please visit http://www.compaq.com/storage.
Company Background
Founded in 1982, Compaq Computer Corporation ("Compaq") is a leading global provider of enterprise technology and solutions. Information on Compaq and its products and services is available at http://www.compaq.com.
Notes:
Compaq and the Compaq logo are trademarks of Compaq Information Technologies Group, L.P. Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
This news release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements. Risks, uncertainties and assumptions include the possibility that the Hewlett-Packard/Compaq merger does not close or that the companies may be required to modify aspects of the transaction to achieve regulatory approval or that prior to the closing of the proposed merger, the businesses of the companies suffer due to uncertainty; the market for the sale of certain products and services may not develop as expected; that development of these products and services may not proceed as planned; that Compaq and Hewlett-Packard are unable to transition customers, successfully execute their integration strategies, or achieve planned synergies; other risks that are described from time to time in Compaq and Hewlett-Packard's Securities and Exchange Commission reports (including but not limited to Compaq's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2000, HP's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended October 31, 2000, and subsequently filed reports). If any of these risks or uncertainties materializes or any of these assumptions proves incorrect, Compaq's results could differ materially from Compaq's expectations in these statements. Compaq assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.
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