Three months before #EMC bought #DSSD in May 2014, the storage goliath was thinking about buying #Pure Storage. EMC even admitted in emails that its rival would always win out in head-to-head proof-of-concept de-dupe battles.
This is according to internal emails disclosed during EMC's patent infringement lawsuitagainst Pure Storage and obtained by The Register. That lawsuit rumbled to a halt this month with a small judgment against the upstart. Pure plans to appeal against the verdict.
Let's wind back the clock and build a timeline of events.
In 2012, for its entry into the all-flash array market, EMC bought startup XtremIO and its all-flash array technology for $430m. TheXtremIO array launched in March 2013 while EMC was fighting Pure to be king of the solid-state array market.
Pure upgraded its product set to the FA-400line in May 2013.
The rivalry with Pure Storage became bitter, with EMC accusing Pure of poaching its staffin October 2013. The next month, EMCaccused Pure of ripping off its deduplication and RAID patents.
This action may have been triggered by Pure winning bids against EMC's XtremIO product due to Pure’s data-reduction technology.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/22/emc_pondered_purchasing_pure_storage/
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