It appears that the intense bidding war for 3PAR could finally be coming to an end after weeks of feverish bids from both Dell and Hewlett-Packard (News - Alert), with H-P now appearing to be the victor for the hotly contested company which makes storage products for cloud computing.

Dell called it quits after H-P raised its offer for 3PAR to roughly $2.1 billion, representing $33 per share, an increase from the prior offer of $30 per share.