NetApp, ENS-Inc secure California Data Center Modernization Contract to deliver data center modernization, hybrid cloud infrastructure

NetApp announced on Wednesday that Enterprise Networking Solutions (ENS-Inc) has been awarded an exclusive three-year contract by the State of California Department of General Services (DGS) to deliver NetApp’s data center modernization and hybrid cloud infrastructure solutions to the State of California.

ENS-Inc is a State of California IT solutions provider, delivering proven and scalable technology solutions since 1999. With expertise in virtualization, cloud integration, and business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR), ENS-Inc partners with clients to build vital and secure IT infrastructures that empower the mobility and agility today’s business requires. 

ENS-Inc enables clients to securely manage their IT infrastructures from anywhere, at any time, from a variety of mobile devices, while delivering maximum uptime of the crucial IT services businesses and agencies depend on. 

For this contract, ENS-Inc serves as the sole provider of a complete catalog of all NetApp enterprise technology to the State of California, including data center equipment and associated data center hardware (for example, servers, storage, converged and hyperconverged systems, on-campus networking, and fabric).

State and local government agencies are moving to the cloud, but on-premises infrastructure is needed for workloads that cannot be migrated to the public cloud. ENS-Inc can now deliver NetApp’s open and scalable on-premises hybrid cloud infrastructure to the State of California, while also enabling California agencies and departments to use their data fabric to control, integrate, move, and consistently manage their data across their public cloud and on-premises data center environments. This flexibility will allow California to design its data fabric to deliver information where, when, and how it is needed for citizen services.

StoneFly storage OS software now delivers WORM, deduplication and ransomware protection

StoneFly released a newer version of their patented storage Operating System (OS): StoneFusion and SCVM. The storage software also facilitates cloud integration with StoneFly appliances and other servers. Supported cloud repositories include Azure, Amazon S3, other S3 compatible cloud and StoneFly private cloud.

SCVM is also available as a standalone product compatible with VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, and Citrix (formerly XenServer) hypervisors facilitating data center consolidation, VM migration, VM snapshots, DR, and other similar use-cases.

The latest version (8.0.4) of the enterprise storage software includes WORM (Write-Once, Read-Many) storage provisioning; anti-virus, malware and ransomware detection and removal; deduplication for NAS volumes (in addition to iSCSI SAN workloads); and GUI (Graphical User Interface) update that offers real-time performance reporting of provisioned NAS, SAN and unified storage resources.

StoneFly patented storage OS, StoneFusion and SCVM, enables users to provision NAS, SAN and unified (NAS + SAN) volumes on bare-metal, Windows and Linux servers. The enterprise storage OS comes pre-configured in all StoneFly storage and backup and disaster recovery (DR) appliances.

StoneFusion is also available as a standalone software. The storage OS can be installed on bare-metal servers and mainstream enterprise storage appliances such as Dell EMC, HPE, among several others.

Besides storage provisioning, the storage OS facilitates integration of several enterprise-grade features such as delta-based snapshots, synchronous and asynchronous replication, volume encryption, automated storage tiering, and others.

The SCVM storage OS can be installed on mainstream hypervisors such as VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, and Citrix (formerly XenServers) to provision virtual NAS, virtual SAN, virtual unified (NAS + SAN) storage repositories and/or to integrate desired cloud repositories to build a hybrid HCI storage solution. With SCVM, users can run VMs in their preferred cloud, create snapshots in the cloud, replicate to the cloud, and more.

StoneFly also recently introduced StoneFusion MSP edition, the storage OS version that facilitates MSPs and large organizations to provision virtual, purpose-built, multi-tenant and noise-less storage repositories on on-premises, remote or cloud-based servers. 

Commenting on the new update the CEO and founder of StoneFly Mo Tahmasebi said, “Our culture is driven by customer feedback. We listen to our enterprise customers and develop our solutions accordingly to enhance their experience. The latest version of our storage OS is developed to help with concerns such as high impact ransomware attacks, compliance and data center consolidation. It’s an eighth generation product, which is truly one-of-a-kind in the context that it facilitates NAS, SAN, unified and hyperconverged workloads. Not many storage OS in the market can do that”

StoneFusion comes pre-configured in all StoneFly NAS, SAN and Unified (NAS + SAN) appliances. It’s also available as a standalone product for bare-metal, Windows and Linux-based servers.

SCVM is the built-in virtual storage appliance in StoneFly HCI appliances including Unified Server and Storage (USS) appliances, the DR365, DR365V and DR365U backup and DR appliances.