Dell has accorded to buy virtualized entrepot vendor Compellent Technologies in an all-cash deal deserving $27.75 per share, a little more than the $27.50 per share cost tag it was discussing with the keep company last week, but still lower than the stock's Monday-morning opening price of $28.30.

Dell hopes to elaborate its range of enterprise storage productions with Compellent's virtualized storage productions, which offer thin purveying and tiering.

The new price tag values compel at around $960 million, and invests the cost of the deal to Dell at about $820 million, net of compel cash. The companies expect to complete the deal early next year, if compel shareholders approve it.