HP loses out to Dell in 3PAR bid, acquires Stratvia Databases instead (Update: HP WINS!)

Update:  HP wins! After a back-and-forth, HP has paid more than double for 3PAR than what they paid for Palm! Hey, we just report this stuff. We can’t make explain everything, you know!… Someone is gonna make quite the payday by the end of this… or get axed, depending on your viewpoint!

Hewlett-Packard is on quite the shopping spree lately. After acquiring music streaming service company Melodeo in July, HP this week laid out a large bid for cloud services and storage specialist 3PAR – outbidding Dell handily in the process. But Dell has come back in force, upping their offer to 30 cents per share over HP’s bid of $24 per share. Rather then counter-bid, today HP simply acquired a different company, Stratvia Databases, that offers similar services to 3PAR. The terms of the deal are undisclosed as of this writing.

This is but one move in a series of many made by many mobile-industry stalwarts including HP, Dell, Google, and Apple with its purchase of Melodeo competitor LaLa to leverage the cloud to provide through mobile devices an always-on connected experience to user content. webOS is already well known for its Synergy service which preserves and maintains among many things your contacts, accounts and app information independently of your physical device. It is apparent HP intends to expand and develop upon the model of and success of  Synergy with these corporate acquisitions. If this trend continues, soon all of our information and content may be hopping on the cloud-wagon.

[Sources: @5xBear, Industry Week, UKFAST, Engadget]