Emergent Consulting's Director of Open Source Quint Van Deman to Head New Cloud Solutions Practice

Emergent, LLC, an award-winning small business and IT solutions provider, today announced that Quint Van Deman, Director of Open Source, will head the new Cloud Solutions practice within Emergent Consulting. In this role, Van Deman is responsible for designing Open Source and Cloud based solutions for clients, managing the implementation of those solutions by Emergent consultants, and being an advocate for Open Source and Cloud computing in the enterprise. He is a Red Hat Certified Architect, Engineer, Data Center Specialist, and the Red Hat Certified Professional of the Year for 2011.

Emergent established its Cloud computing consulting practice in 2011.  The practice was launched to help businesses assess, plan and implement their public, private and hybrid Cloud strategies and platforms.  The Emergent team works with organizations to capitalize on the significant cost savings and increased agility offered by the Cloud, without sacrificing security, interoperability or governance. Emergent delivers the right level of people, processes and research to ensure maximum return on value for any Cloud computing or Open Source project.

President of Emergent Consulting, Richard Walters states, "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.  Our new Cloud practice will furthermore help our customers achieve cost-effective solutions and technology. The Cloud is one of the most exciting innovation developments in years and we look forward to helping customers realize its potential."