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December 16, 2011

Quint Van Deman to lead Emergent's Cloud Solutions Practice

Emergent, LLC, an award-winning small business and IT solutions provider, recently named Quint Van Deman, director of Open Source (News - Alert), as the lead of the new Cloud Solutions practice within Emergent Consulting. The practice helps businesses assess, plan and implement their public, private and hybrid Cloud strategies and platforms.

As the lead of the practice, Van Deman will design the Open Source and Cloud based solutions for customers. Also, the solutions will also be implemented by Emergent consultants under the supervision of Van Deman.

“Since much of the Cloud is based on Open Source technologies and with Quint's award winning expertise as a proven Open Source architect, this is a natural move for us,” Richard Walters, president of Emergent Consulting, said in a statement. “Our new Cloud practice will further help our clients achieve cost-effective solutions and innovation. The Cloud is one of the most exciting technology developments in years and we look forward to helping clients realize its potential.”

In his role at Emergent, LLC, Van Deman's principal objective is to help clients move from a last-generation, proprietary IT infrastructure to a next-generation architecture that embraces the synergy of open source, open standards and cloud-based solutions. Being a RHCA has enhanced Van Deman's knowledge of many of the enterprise solutions that solve common IT-related business challenges.

Recently, Red Hat (News - Alert) the world's leading provider of open source solutions, announced that Van Deman was named the 2011 Red Hat Certified Professional of the Year.

Red Hat certifications are earned by passing rigorous practical exams in which candidates must perform the real-world tasks required in production environment. The annual Red Hat Certified Professional of the Year award recognizes and honors the hard work, skills and creativity of those holding Red Hat certifications.




Rahul Arora is a TMCnet contributor. He has worked as an editor and freelance writer for several reputed organizations in India. To read more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Jennifer Russell

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