Benefits of the Compaq Merger
Another direction to look in is the area of higher availability. In the course of Hewlett-Packard's merger with Compaq, it picked up some new and extensive high-availability technology. Again, given the reliance that enterprises today place on IT infrastructure, the usefulness of a system that simply does not go down at all is becoming more and more invaluable.
For example, the fault-tolerant systems from the former Tandem Corporation today function in environments where it is important to never lose a transaction. In a fault-tolerant environment, two computers run in parallel. If one fails, the other one picks up the load, backing up a little if needed to ensure that it collects any transactions that might have ...
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