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By Tony Hallett, 23 July 1998 06:38

NEWS Compaq has announced it is to integrate its storage product set with Digital's.
Compaq is to keep the 'StorageWorks' brand name, adding Digital's products and services to its own. The PC giant took the lid off its storage strategy on Wednesday, saying it would provide industry standard SCSI and fibre channel technology across all markets. Following Compaq's mega-merger with Digital, it has become the number one provider in the NT storage market, but said the companies' product lines fit together well enough to see across-the-board gains. In a step towards providing fully-fledged storage area networks (SANs) - which will lessen the need to have data stored on any single server - Compaq announced its Enterprise Backup Solution. The programme is a Fibre Channel-based solution for NT and NetWare environments. It is the result of collaboration with Seagate Software and Computer Associates. Existing channel partners will continue to sell Digital StorageWorks, which will shortly become Compaq StorageWorks. Donal Madden, enterprise product manager at Compaq, commented: "before the merger, Compaq was looking for a strong brand, but StorageWorks has very good brand equity, so we're using it." Compaq is also counting on picking up business from companies not using its own servers, but instead running Unix boxes from Hewlett-Packard, IBM, SGI and Sun. As for NT, John Lockwood, StorageWorks product marketing manager at Digital, added: "We have more Microsoft certified engineers than any other company, including Microsoft."