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Denny Cherry specializes as an independent consultant working with platforms such as SQL Server, VMware’s vSphere, Hyper-V, and enterprise storage platforms such as EMC’s CLARiiON, DMX, VNX, VNXe, vMAX, vBlock, Celerra, etc. as well as IBM’s XVI array and NetApp’s filers in addition to a variety of server hardware platforms including blade systems such as Cisco’s UCS platform and C series servers.  I have over 12 years of experience working with enterprise solutions in a variety of capacities.

My goal as a consultant is to ensure that your business systems are running at their peak so that you can get done what needs to get done.  Your business is running your business, mine is making the technology work for you so that you can run your business using the technology as a tool not as a crutch.

Some of the things which I can help you with include:

  • Our SQL server is running slowly.
  • Our Storage Array isn’t performing like we think it should be.
  • Can these systems be virtualized?
  • Are my backups going to be useful when there is a problem?
  • Corruption errors from your SQL Server database
  • Applications are running slow
  • Applications are timing out
  • Designing and implementing Windows and SQL Server high availability solution
  • Designing and implementing storage (SAN) solutions
  • Designing and implementing VMware solutions
  • Designing and implementing Hyper-V solutions
  • Upgrading VMware vSphere environments
  • Designing a database solution
  • Sizing, deploying and tuning EMC vBlock solutions

And much, much more. Contact me to see if I can help with your problems, so that we can turn them into our solutions.

Credentials

I have a variety of certifications from Microsoft’s Certified Professional program including 8 SQL Server certifications.  In addition to these certifications I have also been awarded the Microsoft MVP Award for Microsoft SQL Server annually since I first received the award in 2008 additionally I’ve been awarded the VMware vExpert award for 2012.

  • MCSA (Microsoft Certified System Administrator)
  • MCDBA (Microsoft Certified Database Administrator) for SQL Server 2000
  • MCTS (Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist)
    • SQL Server 2005
    • Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence
    • SQL Server 2008 Implementation and Maintenance
    • SQL Server 2008 Database Development
    • SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence
  • MCITP (Microsoft Certified IT Professional)
    • Database Administrator on SQL Server 2005
    • Database Developer on SQL Server 2005
    • Business Intelligence Developer on SQL Server 2005
    • Database Administrator 2008
    • Database Developer 2008
    • Business Intelligence Developer 2008
  • MCM (Microsoft Certified Master) SQL Server 2008

Speaking

I have spoken at a variety of national and international conferences including Microsoft Tech Ed, SQL PASS Summit, and SQL Connections.  In addition to these large conferences I have spoken at a variety of smaller regional and local events such as SQL Saturdays, Code Camps, and User Group Meetings across the United States and Canada.

Writing

I write for a variety of places such as SearchSQLServer.com, SQL Server Magazine and Microsoft’s TechNet Magazine in addition to several books which I’ve written either in part or in whole.

You can find the most up to date copy of the list of articles which I have written on my MVP Profile. I announce new articles on my blog and you can subscribe to the RSS feeds on most of these websites.

Contacting Me

If you would like to contact me regarding consulting, or to speak to your user group or at a conference, feel free to contact me, or via my Facebook page, or my Twitter account @mrdenny.


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