Nexus, a Stratos Company, Offers VMware vCloud(R) Hybrid Service(TM) to Enterprise Organizations

MINNEAPOLIS, MN--(Marketwired - Sep 19, 2013) - Minnesota-based Nexus, a Stratos Company, today announced it is now offering VMware vCloud® Hybrid Service™ to enterprise clients throughout the U.S.

VMware vCloud Hybrid Service is an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform built on the foundation of VMware vSphere^®. The innovative solution enables Nexus to seamlessly integrate on- and off-premise environments with central management, while maintaining its customers' new and existing applications and policies. With VMware vCloud Hybrid Service, Nexus can offer the support and flexibility of multiple U.S. locations for hosting infrastructure required by data-driven clients. In addition, vCloud Hybrid Service will be launching a full disaster recovery service offering, which will be available in beta later this year.

"VMware vCloud® Hybrid Service^™ can help organizations manage hybrid cloud environments and we are honored to offer this service," says Tim Carr, Solutions Director for Stratos. "Having the ability to deliver core IaaS capabilities at the enterprise level, and provide native VMware integration between existing private clouds and VMware's hosted offering helps differentiate Nexus in the market, and more importantly, enables us to bring significant advantage and business value to our clients."

"We are pleased to work with Nexus to offer VMware vCloud^® Hybrid Service^™, enabling customers to obtain comprehensive IT services from partners, while providing an easy and fast path to achieve the agility and efficiency of the public cloud," said Frank Rauch, vice president, Americas Partner Organization, VMware. "VMware vCloud Hybrid Service is built on the trusted foundation of VMware vSphere^®, and provides customers with a common platform to seamlessly extend their data center to the cloud, without having to change or re-write their applications."

For more information, email marketing@nexus-stratos.com or visit www.nexus-stratos.com.

About Stratos Management Systems, Inc.
Stratos Management Systems, Inc. (Stratos), based in Dallas, builds and manages hybrid IT environments including private cloud, public cloud and traditional infrastructure for enterprises throughout the central and southeastern U.S. In 2012, Stratos acquired Nexus Information Systems, based in Minnesota, and Computex, Inc., based in Houston, Texas. For more information visit www.stratos-inc.com.

About Nexus, A Stratos Company
Nexus, a Stratos Company (Nexus), is recognized as a regional leader in enterprise data center solutions and services with corporate headquarters out of Minneapolis, MN. From architecture design to implementation, Nexus' core expertise is in virtual infrastructure, cloud computing, business continuity, data storage management, networking, client computing and managed services. Nexus is certified with the highest data center partnerships as an HP Elite Partner, IBM Premier Partner, EMC Premier Partner and VMware Premier Partner. Since 2011, Nexus was recognized for their innovation and leadership as CRN Tech Elite 250 Editor's Choice, CRN 30 Cloud VARs That Get IT, CRN Top 100 Healthcare VARs and listed seven consecutive years to the Solution Provider 500. For more information visit us at www.nexus-stratos.com.

VMware, vCloud Hybrid Service and VMware vSphere are registered trademarks or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions. The use of the word "partner" or "partnership" does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any other company.