SDN Essentials and InterCloud Systems Announce Partnership for the Delivery of Cloud Enabled Services

NEW YORK, Feb. 09, 2016 -- InterCloud Systems, Inc. (the "Company" or "InterCloud") (NASDAQ:ICLD), a leading provider of cloud networking orchestration and automation solutions and services, today announced a partnership with SDN Enterprises, LLC. that formally establishes a service relationship for SDN/NFV and cloud enabled services. SDN Essentials will leverage the cloud expertise of InterCloud and the orchestration capabilities of NFVgrid. InterCloud Systems will leverage the Education and Professional Services expertise of SDN Essentials with coverage around the world.

“SDN Essentials is very excited to partner with InterCloud, especially around the SDN and NFV software capabilities of NFVgrid. This platform solves a real problem of orchestration of VNFs and analytics for a variety of vendor and open source virtual functions." Doug Marschke, CTO of SDN Essentials.

Mark Munro, CEO of InterCloud added: “we have stated that our goal is to become the global leader in multi-vendor, virtualized network orchestration, next generation analytics and third party VNF validation services as we build a brand of excellence around NFVgrid. This new relationship with SDN Essentials expands the services that we can provide to both service providers and telecommunications equipment vendors, as Network Function Virtualization becomes the new standard in IT networking.

About SDN Essentials, LLC.

SDN Essentials is your one-stop shop for planning, building, and executing a Software-Defined Network. Our comprehensive range of services—education, training, consulting and managed services—is designed to optimize your network for better performance, cost and reliability.  For additional information visit SDN Essentials website at www.sdnessentials.com.

About InterCloud Systems, Inc.

InterCloud Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of cloud networking orchestration and automation, for Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) cloud environments to the telecommunications service provider (carrier) and corporate enterprise markets through cloud solutions and professional services. InterCloud's cloud solutions offer enterprise and service-provider customers the opportunity to adopt an operational expense model by outsourcing cloud deployment and management to InterCloud rather than the capital expense model that has dominated in recent decades in IT infrastructure management. Additional information regarding InterCloud may be found on InterCloud's website at www.intercloudsys.com.

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