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HPE Storage (formerly HP StorageWorks) is a portfolio of Hewlett Packard Enterprise storage products, includes online storage, nearline storage, storage networking, archiving, de-duplication, and storage software. HP and their predecessor, the Compaq Corporation,[1] has developed some of industry-first storage technologies to simplify network storage. HP is a proponent of converged storage, a storage architecture that combines storage and compute into a single entity.[2]
HP Storage announced in August 2011:[3]
Many models have been rebadged from Brocade Communications Systems, Cisco, Emulex, and QLogic.[citation needed]
PolyServe was founded in 2004[4] by Michael Callahan, serving as chief technology officer, and Carter George, serving as Vice-President, as "a software company in Portland, specializing in database and file serving."[5]
HP, when it bought Compaq, acquired its StorageWorks;[1] HP, when it bought PolyServe, placed its 100+ employees within StorageWorks.[6][7]
An example[4] of PolyServe's value is that a large British government agency which had 14 idle backup servers