![]() ![]() Pure is helping individual employees defend themselves from allegations they misused EMC intellectual property, Kixmoeller said. The company currently has over 300 employees, he said. Kixmoeller said Pure is not contesting EMC's saying the company hired 44 former EMC employees. We make it clear what we expect from them." We hire people for their brains going forward. "When we hire employees, we don't want any intellectual property from their former employers whatsoever," he said. Ultimately, Pure Storage is an intellectual property company, and expects employees to respect its own and others' rights, Kixmoeller said. The legality of non-competes differs around the world. "We want to retain our employees at Pure. "This is not unusual in Silicon Valley," he said. ![]() Pure Storage, for instance, does not have a non-compete clause in its own employment agreements, but does have clauses to protect the company's intellectual property rights, Kixmoeller said. Matt Kixmoeller, vice president of product for Pure Storage, told CRN that Pure Storage believes in employee freedom as long as employees behave in an ethical manner and follow their commitments to former employers. We are simply taking the necessary legal action to protect EMC's rights." "I wonder who will be employee number 45 to leave EMC for Pure."ĮMC declined to comment on the lawsuit, but a company spokesperson emailed a statement to CRN that read, "Pure Storage has waged a deliberate, unlawful and sustained campaign to steal EMC's confidential and proprietary information. "That might be one of the best recruiting tools for Pure," IAS' Woodall said. The lawsuit, coming swiftly after Pure Storage in August unveiled a $150-million round of funding in the company, tells the industry that Pure Storage is doing a lot of the right things. ![]() NEXT: EMC's Lawsuit Good News For Pure Storage? Those people are probably not leaving for the money. By highlighting this, people will question what is happening at EMC. "Why highlight the fact that so many people are leaving EMC for a competitor. "Maybe you don't want to do that," he said. Woodall said one unusual aspect of the lawsuit is the fact that EMC is calling out Pure Storage for hiring 44 EMC people. "EMC grabbing other vendors' employees? I say, yeah, so? It tells me Pure is winning, and shows that Pure is on EMC's radar." "People like working for hot startups," he said. Pure Storage has hired people from EMC, NetApp and other storage vendors, Woodall said. "I think Pure is making headway against EMC, and taking deals," Woodall said. It is no surprise that EMC would initiate such a lawsuit, said John Woodall, vice president of engineering at Integrated Archive Systems (IAS), a Palo Alto, Calif.-based solution provider and Pure Storage partner. Those employees, many of whom EMC described as "among the highest performing EMC professionals in their positions," had signed "key employee agreements" that EMC said included clauses to not disclose confidential information about EMC products or customers, to return such confidential information to EMC upon leaving the company, and to not solicit other EMC employees to work for a competitor, according to the lawsuit.ĮMC in the lawsuit also said it has already initiated legal action against six former employees, and that in "numerous instances, these former employees returned misappropriated EMC materials only after EMC was compelled to initiate litigation and in several instances only pursuant to Court direction." District Court in Massachusetts and can be read on the Scribd website, EMC alleges that at least 44 former EMC engineers and sales people left the company "under suspicious circumstances" to join Mountain View, Calif.-based Pure Storage since August of 2011. In the lawsuit, which was filed Monday at the U.S. EMC Sues Pure Storage For Hiring Practices, Misappropriation Of Confidential InformationĮMC this week filed a lawsuit against startup flash storage vendor Pure Storage, alleging that Pure Storage hatched a "deliberate scheme" to acquire EMC intellectual property by hiring 44 of its former employees. ![]()
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