A Stratos representative was recently interviewed by CRN magazine. John DeRocker, a former president of Nexus, was appointed the position of senior vice president of worldwide channels. John will also be responsible for engaging with new manufacturing partners and net-new customers to get them started with Stratos.

 “In the past, most international customers gave purchasing responsibility to their local offices,” he said. “Today, that’s changing. The mother companies want control of standardization and pricing with local delivery.” DeRocker said.

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A Nexus representative was interviewed in CRN magazine.  The representative was asked about software-defined storage, and said to think of software-defined data centers as a Logitech Harmoney remote which, when used with a home theater system, controls everything with the press of a button.

"In a way, that's how software-defined-everything should be," they said. "One button to do all the automation. Today, no vendor has that technology that works with everything ... We just lack all the controls for an extra management function. Storage is a component, networking is a component, compute is a component. We have control with compute and networking. Storage will be the hardest one." 

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Stratos Management Systems (Stratos) and Nexus, A Stratos Company (Nexus), today outlined the future course for Nexus and Stratos and announced a new president. A proven business leader, Paula Winkler has joined Nexus as President. John DeRocker, former President of Nexus, is now spearheading the company’s global growth as Sr. VP of Worldwide Channels for Stratos Management Systems. Bret Kidd, President and COO of Stratos, and Ken Brown, Stratos EVP and Chief Client Officer, continue with aggressive growth plans to establish Stratos as a global IT services leader, specialized in building and managing Hybrid IT solutions.

Vice President of Nexus, Keith Norbie was recently interviewed in CRN magazine.  Norbie said he will be looking for the execution engine on the software-defined data center (SDDC) and all the ecosystem progressions around the advancement of this movement. Mr. Norbie also said "I'm looking for short-term perspective on what's executable from the 'tech previews' of previous VMworld and events," he said. "I'm looking for the future, what services and offerings does Stratos need to make? What's relevant? Who are the right people to network with to pull off this year's super-human feats?" 

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In another article written by Joseph Kovar for CRN magazine; Keith Norbie said "The ideal situation is for solution providers to set themselves up as a cloud service provider that's able to redeem the cloud credits they sell to customers."

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Minneapolis, MN – June 12, 2012 – Nexus, A Stratos Company (Nexus) announced today it has become a Mitel authorized PARTNER enabling delivery of advanced unified communications solutions to customers based on Mitel’s Freedom architecture and associated products.

Minneapolis, MN – July 3rd, 2012 – Nexus, A Stratos Company (Nexus) announced today it will be hosting a skydiving event for the IT community on Friday, July 13, 2012.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN – June 11, 2012 – Nexus, A Stratos Company (Nexus) announced today they have entered into the Partner Program with Rackspace® Hosting, (NYSE: RAX), the world’s leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry. This relationship is designed to add mutual value for their current clients and to increase targeted exposure and reputation for both companies.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — June 11, 2012— Nexus, A Stratos Company (Nexus), a recognized regional leader in information technology of managed services, today introduces Aaron Franko as the new Sr. Director of Service Delivery. Aaron brings over a decade of technology service and sales management experience.

Minneapolis, MN, June 6, 2012 – Nexus, A Stratos Company (Nexus) today announced it has been recognized by UBM Channel as a part of CRN’s 2012 Solution Provider 500 list, which ranks the top technology integrators in North America. Formerly known as the “VAR 500”, the Solution Provider 500 ranks the highest producing solution provider organizations in the IT channel from hardware sales, software sales, and managed IT services. Nexus placed 404 in the annual ranking.

ATLANTA, March 1, 2012 – Navigation Capital Partners (NCP), an Atlanta-based lower middle market private equity firm, announced the formation of Stratos Management Systems, Inc. (Stratos), a platform designed to acquire and integrate IT solutions providers and managed services firms focused on building and maintaining hybrid IT environments, including private cloud, virtualization, storage, security and networking elements. Stratos has completed its first acquisition, Nexus Information Systems (Nexus), an IT provider of virtualization, storage and managed services.

Gordon "Gordy" Grant isn't one to cut corners. Grant, the director of technology at River Falls Medical Clinics in River Falls, Wisc., knew his organization's Cisco Systems infrastructure was quickly approaching end-of-life, and in the fall of 2009 he methodically set out to find a replacement.

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Minneapolis, MN – July 13th, 2012 – Nexus, A Stratos Company (Nexus) launched their cloud services, StratosCARE, by providing clients an opportunity to join them in the clouds for a jump! On Friday the 13th Nexus hosted their event "Are You Cloud Superstitious?" where 5 Nexus and 16 clients overcame their fear of the cloud.

MINNETONKA, Minn. —Dec 22, 2011— Nexus Information Systems is proud to sponsor the ALA as a Gold Business Partner for 2012. Nexus Information Systems will also be exhibiting at the ALA Annual Education Conference and Exposition on Feb 14th, 2012 at the Minneapolis Convention Center.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – January 18, 2011 – Nexus Information Systems, a regional leader in data center solutions and services, today announced that the company has become a member of the Actifio Partner Program. As an approved Actifio partner, Nexus Information Systems will offer its clients the Actifio Data Management Virtualization (DMV) software suite to lower data protection, disaster recovery and business continuity costs. Actifio solutions help customers protect their physical and VMware virtualized environments including VMware Site Recovery Manager.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – March 8, 2011 – Nexus Information Systems has been named to the inaugural CRN Tech Elite 250. The Tech Elite 250 serves as the industry’s definitive list of VARs with both deep technical expertise and premier certifications. Nexus Information Systems has been recognized as a best-of-breed integrator who has invested in technical know-how and earned premier certifications in the areas of data centers and Network infrastructure with industry leaders  VMware, HP, and Juniper Networks.