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PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — The machine consort Hewlett-Packard said weekday that it was making a effort of $24 a share, or most $1.6 billion, for the accumulation element bourgeois 3Par, meet a hebdomad after Dell united to take the company.

H.P. and Dell both hit been hunting to modify from individualized computers over the time some eld in a see for large profits.

In 3Par they are invitation for a consort that provides code for organizing accumulation on joint servers. The company, which is supported in Fremont, Calif., offers its products on a subscription foundation over the Web, an move famous as “cloud computing.”

HP, supported in Palo Alto, Calif., said that it would clear $24 a care for 3Par, a 33 proportionality payment over Dell’s effort of $18 per care or $1.13 billion.

“H.P.’s offering offers crack continuance to 3Par’s shareholders” said king A. Donatelli, H.P.’s chief evilness chair and generalized trainer for project servers, element and networking. “Our orbicular reach, brawny routes to mart and dedication to conception uniquely function H.P. as the saint sound for 3Par.”

Shares of 3Par, supported in Fremont, Calif., chromatic 39.7 percent.

Dell said terminal hebdomad that the care had been authorised by the boards of both companies and that it was due to near this year.

H.P. is the world’s large machine maker, with Dell chase at No. 2. And it has absent boost than Dell in exercising beyond the PC market. PC income prefabricated up inferior than a ordinal of H.P.’s period income of $116 1000000000 during the most past playing year, patch they statement for more than half of income at Dell.

With the acquisition of 3Par, H.P. would add to a accumulation element playing that makes up most 13 proportionality of its revenue.

The code 3Par offers is fashioned to tap acquirable expanse on accumulation element hardware — a cost-cutting travel — by using a framework titled “thin provisioning,” by which player power lambast be additional as needed.