Leonovus Got $435,000 Canadian Federal Government Contract

Leonovus, Inc. was awarded a $435,000 contract with the Canadian Federal Government through the Innovative Solutions Canada Program – formerly called the Build in Canada Innovation Program (BCIP).

The company expects to perform the work and recognize the revenue in the first 3 quarters of this fiscal year. The contract will involve the Department of Justice Canada and the Department of National Defense Canada performing testing of Leonovus Vault software (the Innovation), enhanced with new Smart Filer technology.

“The Government of Canada recognises that cloud represents an increasingly important way of delivering storage infrastructure and is looking for potential technology innovations, such as Leonovus Vault software, to support the adoption of hybrid cloud, securely and efficiently,” said Michael Gaffney, CEO.

The Leonovus Innovation is a secure multi-cloud data controller that manages storage on premises and across multiple public clouds. The Innovation presents a single, object storage interface through which documents are uploaded, encrypted and fragmented using an enhanced erasure coding algorithm developed and owned by Leonovus. The fragments are then dispersed across configured storage endpoints, including public cloud storage and on-premises file servers.

The Leonovus Vault innovation decouples data from storage infrastructure, allowing organizations to: 

• Leverage under-utilized and idle on-premises storage,
• Pursue a true multi-cloud strategy with no cloud vendor lock-in,
• Provide flexibility to evolve storage strategies as cloud offerings and costs evolve,
• Enhance the security of their data across a complex storage infrastructure, and
• Achieve true data sovereignty across many geographies with multiple cloud vendors.

In addition, the awarded contract includes testing the use of Leonovus Smart Filer to facilitate the automatic transferal of file data to Leonovus Vault.

“Another federal government department recently deployed our Smart Filer product. We anticipate finishing the installation and testing by the end of Q1,” said Gaffney.