Splunk SmartStore on Pure Storage: Simple, Efficient & Accelerated
SmartStore is their next-generation architecture from Splunk® designed to help turn data into action for ITOPs, SIEM, IOT, and business analytics. SmartStore delivers operational simplicity, agility, and infrastructure cost reduction. When paired with Pure Storage FlashBlade™, SmartStore gains accelerated search capabilities and increased storage efficiencies. Also, FlashBlade is future proof for Splunk, enabling customers to […]
End-to-End Data Encryption with Data Reduction from Thales & Pure Storage
At the 2019 RSA Conference, Pure Storage and Thales introduced Vormetric Transparent Encryption for Efficient Storage – the IT and security industries’ first end-to-end data encryption framework that realizes storage array data reduction. This new capability removes the compromise between encryption and storage efficiency, providing the granular access controls security professionals have come to expect […]
GHOST Critical Vulnerability in Pure Storage Systems
CVE-2015-0235 or GHOST is a critical vulnerability in the LINUX glibc library. Its a buffer overflow bug affecting the gethostbyname() and gethostbyname2() function calls. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker that is able to make an application call to either of these functions to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running the application. Customers running Purity O.E. versions 3.4.x, 4.0.x, 4.1.x and […]