At the end of the week it became known that a relatively young company Pure Storage acquired from IBM more than 100 patents. Details of the transaction were not disclosed. We only know that the company also entered into a cross-licensing agreement. According to the company Pure Storage, the newly acquired patents significantly strengthen the company's portfolio of development and raise its value in the eyes of customers.
The company Pure Storage is working on the creation of interesting server storage arrays to flash memory. In 2011, the Pure Storage development company interested even Samsung (they had a number of joint projects). Pure Storage Arrays differ from competing developments increased productivity, as originally based on different principles than those used to create arrays of disk-based.
At the end of last year, Pure Storage filed a lawsuit against such a giant storage market, EMC company . Last accused that stole one of the Pure Storage systems for the study of trade secrets opponent. In response, EMC filed a lawsuit against Pure Storage, which stated the theft of intellectual property. Perhaps a hundred obtained patents from IBM will help the company Pure Storage to restore justice in court.