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, … [Read more...] about Splunk SmartStore on Pure Storage: Simple, Efficient & Accelerated
Security
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 … [Read more...] about End-to-End Data Encryption with Data Reduction from Thales & Pure Storage
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 … [Read more...] about GHOST Critical Vulnerability in Pure Storage Systems