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.

 07/13/2012 - Are You Cloud Superstitious? Join Nexus at our Skydiving event on Friday, July 13th! Attendees will be able to participate in the jump or enjoy watching their colleagues from the ground at West Side Skydivers in Winsted, MN.

03/21/2012 - Join us at Nexus Information Systems on March 21st as we leap ahead in virtual desktop technologies! This conference offers session for new to and veterans of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) guided by our VDI MASTERS covering subjects ranging from industry best practices to technology transforming VDI as we know it!

Jon Rono and his team at Connexus Energy don’t mind getting their hands dirty. Rono, group leader of business technology services at Connexus Energy, the largest electricity cooperative in the state of Minnesota, says that’s just one of many things he loves about his company’s relationship with networking solution provider Nexus, A Stratos Company, based in Minnetonka, Minnesota.

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As the corporate headquarters of a large network of industrial distributors and truck dealerships and one of Minnesota’s Top 100 private companies, Interstate Companies, Inc. is constantly looking for ways to keep costs down and performance at its peak. So when the company needed to completely revamp its internal data center to incorporate new power over Ethernet (PoE), voice over IP (VoiP) and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), John DeRocker, president, at Nexus, A Stratos Company, put the pedal to the metal and offered Interstate a cost-effective, high-performance solution based on Juniper Networks’ technology.

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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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