<em>eGroup to Help Customers Transition to Cloud Computing with Converged Infrastructure Platform from VCE</em>

Mt. Pleasant, SC – January 28, 2011 – eGroup, Inc. today announced it has joined the VCE partner ecosystem, a community of partners that are qualified to augment, resell, and deliver Vblock™ Infrastructure Platforms. Now eGroup can help customers accelerate their adoption of converged infrastructure and cloud-based computing models to dramatically reduce the cost of IT while improving their time to market.<!--more-->

eGroup qualifies as a Vblock Qualified Partner through its investment in technical certifications and partner designations for all of the Cisco, EMC and VMware products that comprise the Vblock.

“Cloud computing solutions like the Vblock add significant flexibility and cost transparency to IT provisioning” said Mike Carter, eGroup Principal. “We are proud to offer this technology to our customers and help them create private clouds that provide value for their specific IT situation.”

Vblock is the industry's first completely integrated, tested and validated IT infrastructure offerings that combine network, storage, management and virtualization technologies with end-to-end vendor accountability. Vblock platforms support a broad range of operating systems and applications that enable customers to rapidly migrate existing applications to a virtualized environment.

VCE, the Virtual Computing Environment Company formed by Cisco and EMC with investments from VMware and Intel, represents an unprecedented level of collaboration in development, services and partner enablement by four established market and technology leaders. VCE accelerates the adoption of converged infrastructure and cloud-based computing models that dramatically reduce the cost of IT while improving time to market for our customers. For more information on VCE, please visit <a href="http://www.vce.com">www.vce.com</a>.

<strong>About eGroup</strong>

eGroup provides technology solutions for Serious Competitors. Specifically, eGroup specializes in Cloud, Application, and End-User Computing Services that leverage IT infrastructure design, Enterprise storage and backup strategies for Disaster Preparedness, data centralization and secure access solutions, virtualization, network security, and secure LAN/WAN/Wireless architectures. eGroup’s solutions combine robust high-availability and performance with secure information access. These solutions enable customers to efficiently execute revenue-driving roles, and achieve the goal of cutting the organization’s acquisition and on-going support costs. eGroup understands that investment-oriented professionals must focus on making sound business decisions that provide significant returns. eGroup provides the thought leadership and expertise for customers to ensure that their technology investments continue to strengthen their competitive advantage in the marketplace. After all, a company’s success hinges on making critical business decisions that must be supported by its IT systems. By architecting high performance networking and computing platforms, and delivering the industry-proven systems engineering and application development expertise, eGroup helps companies make confident decisions. To learn more, visit <a href="http://www.eGroup-us.com">www.eGroup-us.com</a>.

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