Mt. Pleasant, SC—December 20, 2010—eGroup, Inc., a leading Cloud, Application, and End-User Computing Services Provider, today announced that it has met the rigorous Cisco certified personnel levels required to become a Data Center Unified Computing Authorized Technology Partner (ATP).

This designation recognizes eGroup as having fulfilled the training and program prerequisites to ensure clients that sales and support divisions are uniquely prepared to sell, design, install and support the program-specific technology and products.<!--more-->

"Achieving the Cisco ATP - Data Center Unified Computing Partner designation was very important to eGroup," said eGroup Principal Mike Carter. "With today's customers demanding the technology to do more with less, the Cisco B-series Blade solution will allow customers to scale, provision and re-provision as the business needs change, while saving on power, cooling, valuable data center space, capital and operation expenses. Virtualization is the cornerstone of the vBlock reference architecture of the future, and with industry leading stateless server virtualization technologies from Cisco with the B-series solutions, eGroup can now provide completely virtualized private cloud solutions for our customers now and for years to come".

“eGroup’s Data Center experience makes them an ideal candidate for Cisco’s Authorized Technology Provider (ATP) Specialization focused on Unified Computing. Their holistic approach to designing data center solutions enables customer IT departments to increase their scalability and efficiency. This is an outstanding accomplishment for eGroup,” says Mike Doria, Sales Director, Data Center and Virtualization at Cisco.

“Taking advantage of an architectural shift in the data center, Cisco’s new computing model can help customers transform the data center into a dynamic IT environment with the power to increase productivity, improve efficiency and drive virtualization to an entirely new level,” said John Growdon, director, Worldwide Channels Go-to-Market Group at Cisco. “As a Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Authorized Technology Provider, eGroup is a member of an elite ecosystem of industry leaders working with Cisco to stimulate technology innovation, augment service delivery, and accelerate the market adoption of unified computing.”

To qualify as a Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Authorized Technology Provider, eGroup had to meet a number of requirements. These included achieving the Cisco Data Center Networking Infrastructure Specialization and the Cisco Data Center Storage Networking Specialization as well as demonstrating mature competencies in server, storage and virtualization technologies.

Field demonstration in solutions delivery, combined with Customer Satisfaction metrics, were used to ensure eGroup was held to the highest standards in the selection process.

<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>.