To: Howard Feinstein who wrote (50618 ) 3/1/1999 9:22:00 AM From: Elwood P. Dowd Respond to of 97611
New Information On Compaq Website: Compaq Again Ranked No. 1 in Disk Storage Systems HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 1999--For the second consecutive year, Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE:CPQ - news) was named No. 1 in disk storage systems revenue by International Data Corporation,(1) with consolidated annual storage systems revenue of more than $5.5 billion in 1998. IDC also ranked Compaq No. 1 last year, with 1997 revenue of more than $4.9 billion. IDC credits Compaq's success to the integration of Digital Equipment Corporation and believes that Compaq will easily maintain its No. 1 position in 1999. Compaq recently announced its Enterprise Network Storage Architecture (ENSA), a key element of the company's overall strategy to make enterprise computing less complex, more agile, and easier to deploy and operate globally. ENSA provides investment protection with a comprehensive framework based on core technology, software and services that allows all of a customer's existing storage assets to become part of the overall storage utility. The company also presented a strong line of multi-vendor storage solutions as part of its ENSA vision with new Fibre Channel, SAN-based StorageWorks RAID Arrays and Enterprise Storage Arrays, the StorageWorks Enterprise Backup Solution, and IBM connectivity solutions based on partnerships with industry leaders. Compaq offers leadership industry-standard storage solutions for servers, multi-vendor environments, and business-critical computing. The Compaq StorageWorks brand name is widely recognized for supporting the most demanding business applications and is supported by a broad product family. For more information regarding the IDC bulletin, see the Compaq website atcompaq.com . Company Background: Founded in 1982, Compaq Computer Corporation is a Fortune Global 100 company. Compaq is the second largest computer company in the world and the largest global supplier of personal computers. For more corporate information, see: compaq.com . Compaq, Registered U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. (1) See IDC's Year in Review, 1998: Disk Storage Systems Bulletin, December 1998 Contact: