2011 Red Hat Certifies Professional-Quint Van Deman-to Speak at Red Hat Training Partner Conference

Vendors: Red Hat

Location: Vienna, VA

Emergent's Quint Van Deman set to speak at the Red Hat Training Conference, discussing his road through the Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) process

Vienna, VA - August 2,2011 / PRNewswire - Emergent, an award winning small business and IT solutions provider, announced that Quint Van Deman will be speaking at the 2011 Red Hat Training Partner Conference. The conference will take place August 2-3 at the Mirage in Las Vegas, Nevada.

With an estimated 20 partners present, the two day event will allow Red Hat to work with partners to internally promote their training program. Van Deman, who became a Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) in February, will speak to the attendees about his personal background and road through the certification process. Also announced as the 2011 Red Hat Professional of the Year, Van Deman will touch base on the skills, needs, and motivations within individuals that may make them a good candidate for the higher level training classes. Van Deman will also outline As why training partners should work to get more students started on the RHCA track, which will ultimately help to build a stronger community.

"Given Quint's tremendous accomplishments over the past months, Emergent is honored to have him recognized by our training partner Red Hat for his role as a Red Hat Certified Architect," said Greg Christensen, President of Emergent. "With his guidance we hope to take a step in helping to strengthen the Red Hat community."

About Emergent
Emergent is an award winning Value Added Reseller (VAR) and GSA Schedule Holder (GS-35F-0119W) providing comprehensive IT solutions including product acquisition, consulting and training services. Emergent offers complimentary technology solutions including, Adobe, Red Hat, Symantec and VeriSign, among others within the government, commercial, education and healthcare sectors. For more information, visit http://www.emergent360.com or http://emergent360.com/opensource.

About Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions and an S&P 500 company, is headquar-tered in Raleigh, NC with over 65 offices spanning the globe. CIOs ranked Red Hat as one of the top ven-dors delivering value in Enterprise Software for seven consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value survey. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with virtualization, applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com.

Contact Information
Kylie Morris
Emergent
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