| | SEPTEMBER 201619CIOReviewEmergent 360Value-added Open Sources IntegratorWith the rapid digitization and technological inno-vations, the federal, state and local governments are employing Business Intelligence (BI), and cloud computing to resolve their complex business specific challeng-es. Helping organizations attain this goal is Emergent 360, an open source systems integrator that resolves the complex busi-ness and mission-critical challenges on behalf of the federal, state, and local gov-ernments. Emergent 360 holds close part-nership with Red Hat to provide custom solutions, alongside end-to-end guidance and support. Emergent 360 has developed its expertise in the areas of BI, cloud computing, security, and open source to help businesses tackle their problems. "Open source is a core focus in our business strategy and it is very impor-tant that we showcase the best Red Hat solutions available to solve the unique challenges of our public sector custom-ers," says Greg Christensen, President, Emergent 360.Emergent 360's mission has always been to continuously evolve by upgrading their product portfolio in association with Red Hat. Each of the Emergents' solutions is thoroughly evaluated based on the requirements and needs of the customers. Further, the solutions' technical performance is constantly assessed when they are deployed into the customer's environment and modified according to their needs. Emergent's primarily of-fers OpenShift's auto scaling cloud application platform which is built mainly for the Intelligence Community (IC). Emergent enables the use of Red Hat's OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution to deliver a streamlined solution that is focused on application delivery, scal-ability and control of the infrastructure. OpenShift delivers the velocity, and scal-ability of cloud computing and allows the IC to meet with their growing load demands quickly. The firm's integra-tion with Red Hat has helped the IC to equip OpenShift PaaS on both a private cloud and a FedRAMP certified cloud for mission focused applications, thus enabling for higher performance and cost effective operations. Emergents' OpenShift's auto scaling cloud applica-tion platform also allows developers to launch new ideas while it simultaneously handles the provisioning, security, and scalability functions. In addition, the company also specializes in delivering consulting services through its consulting team which comprises of Red Hat certified experts, possessing the requisite industry experience. The firms' consultants help the customers in every stage of deployment and deliver customized solutions for cloud management. Emergent Consulting team also helps the customers leverage Red Hat's full Cloud Suite, in order to build a custom Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) deployment based on Red Hat OpenStack, Red Hat CloudForms, and Ansible. The team also helps customers to migrate their existing applications and workloads to a robust Red Hat based cloud deployment.Emergent consulting team in partnership with Red Hat also implements DevOps into the enterprise environments to manage application lifecycle. The consulting team firstly assesses the customer's delivery environment, then outlines DevOps efficiencies, and introduces OpenShift to improvise their application lifecycle management.To ensure a rapid upward growth trajectory, Emergent 360 is looking to widen their global geographical customer base. The firm also plans to leverage opportunities that can steer the company to the global platform by extending their product portfolio in new open source software, cloud computing and other technologies with Red Hat. "Our team's commitment to continuous Red Hat improvement has created a championship culture and fuels ability to deliver the right people, technologies and integrated solutions that are driving our sustained success," concludes Christensen. Open source is a core focus in our business strategy and it is very important that we showcase the best Red Hat solutions available to solve the unique challenges of our public sector customersGreg Christensen
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