GOLDEN STATE SIGNAL

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Account strategy · 6 August 2026
Seat: Reseller / partner · Lines carried: Pure Storage, Rubrik · Written by claude-sonnet-5 from 3,967 purchase orders totalling $1,562,659,590.
The angle

Two lines you carry — Pure Storage and Rubrik — are already inside DMV, but through other resellers, not you. This is a partner-displacement play, not an OEM fight: Teranomic holds the Pure Storage business and SunstoneIT LLC is the more recent Rubrik seller of record. Whether a rival OEM owns the rest of DMV's Storage & Data Protection spend is a real question the data raises but doesn't answer — that's discovery, not a pitch.

The plays — ranked
1
Rubrik via SunstoneIT LLC — most workable

SunstoneIT's 2 POs total $185,484, with the most recent dated 2026-01-14 — live, current business. This is an active seat to compete for at the next renewal. Target is SunstoneIT, not Rubrik itself.

2
Rubrik via Enterprise Networking Solutions Inc — same OEM, colder ground

1 PO for $615,446 dated 2020-01-09, over six years old with no renewal date on record. Larger dollar figure historically, but worth checking whether this business simply migrated to SunstoneIT's newer, smaller POs.

3
Pure Storage via Teranomic — reopen before writing off

2 POs totaling $1,514,738, spanning 2021-06-24 to 2023-01-19, with nothing recorded since. Could mean the array is up for refresh, moved to a different vehicle, or the relationship's simply gone quiet — worth a direct check rather than an assumption.

4
Network refresh adjacency — speculative

Presidio's three Cisco POs ($11,704,148, $2,051,923, $1,699,900) are all aging without a renewal date, and Presidio holds a Pure Storage authorization. If a network refresh is coming, there may be a storage-attach conversation alongside it — but this is inference from adjacency, not a storage transaction on record.

Situation

Across the full record — $1,562,659,590, 3,967 POs, 519 suppliers, 2009-08-14 to 2026-09-01 — spend concentrates hard in two categories that show no trace of your lines: Professional & Managed Services ($641,504,455 across 445 POs, led by Strato Communications' Endevor-to-Changeman migration and Idemia's driver-license card production) and Software & Licensing ($474,701,889 across 1,650 POs, the highest PO count of any category by a wide margin). Security & Identity ($160,112,769) and End User Computing ($87,840,213) are the next-largest categories and are likewise silent on Pure Storage or Rubrik.

The one category where your lines have an actual transaction history is Storage & Data Protection: 47 POs totaling $15,985,154. Within it, Pure Storage shows 2 POs totaling $1,514,738 (2021-06-24 to 2023-01-19), sold in by Teranomic, and Rubrik shows 3 POs totaling $800,930 (2020-01-09 to 2026-01-14), split between Enterprise Networking Solutions Inc ($615,446, last 2020-01-09) and SunstoneIT LLC ($185,484, last 2026-01-14). Both named lines are a modest piece of that category's total — most of the $15,985,154 is unattributed to either line in this record.

Adjacent to that, Network Infrastructure ($24,908,565, 70 POs) carries three Presidio Networked Solutions Group Cisco POs — $11,704,148 (2020-04-07), $2,051,923 (2021-06-22), $1,699,900 (2022-06-29) — all flagged as aging with no renewal date on record. Presidio is also a DGS-authorized Pure Storage reseller, which makes this refresh-adjacent, not storage-proven.

Narrowing: the record supports leading with Storage & Data Protection because it's the only ground where your named lines actually transacted. Everything else — services, software, identity, EUC — shows no purchase history for lines you carry. That's silence in this extract, not proof DMV isn't buying them through a statewide vehicle that wouldn't appear here.

Questions to ask

1. Is Storage & Data Protection spend ($15,985,154 across 47 POs) owned by one central IT budget, or does each division buy its own backup/storage independently?

2. Is SunstoneIT LLC still the active Rubrik vendor, or has anything changed since that January 2026 PO?

3. Is the Pure Storage array purchased through Teranomic (2021–2023) still in production, or is it slated for replacement?

4. What accounts for the balance of that $15,985,154 category beyond Pure Storage ($1,514,738) and Rubrik ($800,930) — a different storage OEM, backup software, or something else entirely?

5. Are any storage or data-protection purchases running through CMAS, NASPO ValuePoint, or another statewide vehicle that wouldn't surface in a department-level PO extract?

6. With Presidio's Cisco POs from 2020–2022 aging with no stated renewal date, is a broader infrastructure refresh — compute, network, and storage together — on the roadmap?

7. Who currently signs off on infrastructure purchases at DMV, and has that changed recently?

Who to talk to

Leadership (sets direction):

Buyers of record (sign the paper): Rafael Gonzalez ($546,416,693, 256 POs), Jill Leake ($291,199,481, 450 POs), and Kris Williams ($185,804,565, 504 POs) are the largest buyers by dollar volume in this record, but nothing here ties any specific buyer to the Pure Storage or Rubrik POs. Confirm which buyer actually owns storage/data-protection purchasing before assuming it's one of these three.

Route to market

Action items

WhatWhoBy when
Confirm which contract vehicle SunstoneIT used for its 2026-01-14 Rubrik POReseller's contracts/bid teamBefore any Rubrik outreach
Check status of Teranomic's Pure Storage deployment (no activity since 2023-01-19)Account rep, via DMV CTO officeNext 2 weeks
Request DMV's storage/data-protection roadmap and refresh timelineReseller lead, targeting Kwan Kim or Lance Everett's officeNext 30 days
Identify the supplier(s) behind the balance of the $15,985,154 Storage & Data Protection category not covered by Pure Storage ($1,514,738) or Rubrik ($800,930)Internal research / records follow-upBefore positioning against any named OEM
Track for a network-refresh solicitation given Presidio's aging, undated Cisco POs (2020, 2021, 2022)BD/capture teamOngoing — flag immediately if posted

What this rests on