CEO Today Magazine released an article that Denny Cherry wrote. The article covers the pain that companies were going to feel because of the most recent earthquakes in Sothern California.

From the article:

It will be a while before Southern California has all the data on production dollars lost from the Mojave earthquake, but it’s a virtual guarantee that it will be painful for some small or enterprise businesses. As a certified IT expert and published author in data security and cloud technologies, I meet regularly with CEO’s and CIO’s who are aware their Disaster Recovery strategy has significant flaws, yet they don’t budget to solve the problem. The reason is usually because their DR strategy is following an outmoded philosophy and structure as an earnings drain: space in a data centre, sitting idle and empty, racking up costs, waiting for production to have a critical failure.

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Solution Now Available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace

Microsoft Azure customers worldwide now gain access to Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting (DCAC) Cloud Migration Solution to take advantage of the scalability, reliability, and agility of Microsoft Azure to drive application development and shape business strategies.

OCEANSIDE, CA, U.S. — August 8, 2019 — Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting (DCAC), today announced the launch of a vital new Microsoft Azure SQL Database on behalf of the nationally renowned non-profit, the Elisabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation [EGPAF]. The Cloud Migration solution they developed is now available in the Azure Marketplace a market for buying and selling cloud solutions certified to run on Azure. DCAC customers can now take advantage of the scalability, high availability, and security of Azure, with streamlined deployment and management.

The database will drive communications between EGPAF and more than 5,200 medical facilities spanning 19 countries across the globe, enabling the rapid transfer of medical information, HIV prevention, diagnosis, and treatment services for pregnant mothers, children, and families. Power BI reports will give EGPAF staff the ability to view data as soon as it is imported, allowing them to view the data for any country or time range. Permissions and encryption are handled within the Azure SQL Database to ensure all legal and medical compliance issues are met. Finally, the database simultaneously allows the foundation to provide donors with high-quality business intelligence and analytics so they can see what their donations are accomplishing.

Architecting the Azure data warehouse solution involved informational, compliance, and financial challenges across international lines for the globally renowned and award-winning experts at DCAC. From an informational standpoint, EGPAF works with non-standard data from multiple African countries that each utilize unique databases in ever-changing formats. This meant migration to the cloud would be one challenge, while ongoing data entry would be another. From a compliance perspective, the database had to convey medical data across international lines. Finally, as a non-profit, cost was a tremendous issue. But DCAC demonstrated how an All-Azure solution and working with the globally renowned experts at DCAC could help EGPAF manage costs. According to EGPAF, DCAC’s innovation has the potential to save up to 300,000 administrative hours per year, a 75% reduction in time spent gathering/aggregating/cleaning data.

Stephanie Bruno, the Senior Manager of Informatics at EGPAF, commented, “Access to data about the mothers and children we assist is literally a matter of life and death. Having clean, trustworthy data available improves faster access to services and improves medical outcomes. Thanks to DCAC and Microsoft Azure, we can provide more tailored services to health facilities to improve outcomes for children and families. Additionally, our donors are requiring detailed data so they know their donations are being used effectively. DCAC’s solution also offers us enormous administrative savings in terms of hardware and software while providing better data to save lives.”

Senior Consultant and lead architect on the project, Joey D’Antoni, commented, “This was a very challenging project. From an Azure perspective, the infrastructure is relatively straightforward, however, the variety and lack of consistency with data sources makes the ETL piece of the project extremely challenging.”

DCAC’s database for EGPAF has already garnered multiple accolades at the American Business Awards including the bronze for Technical Innovation of the Year 2019, Most Innovative Tech Company of the Year, and Technical Professional of the Year, Joey D’Antoni.

Sajan Parihar, Senior Director, Microsoft Azure Platform at Microsoft Corp said, “We’re pleased to welcome Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting and their Cloud Migration Solution to the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, which gives our partners great exposure to cloud customers around the globe. Azure Marketplace offers world-class quality experiences from global trusted partners with solutions tested to work seamlessly with Azure.”

About Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting
Award-winning Microsoft Partner and Gold Platform certified Denny Cherry and Associates Consulting assist companies with reliably attaining IT goals such as Azure Migration, HA, scalability, SQL Server virtualization and acceleration while finding ways to save on costs. With clients ranging from Fortune 50 corporations to small businesses, their commitment to each is the same: to provide a deft, high-speed IT environment that maximizes every aspect of their platform: from architecture to infrastructure, to network.

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OCEANSIDE, Calif., May 2, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting (DCAC) proudly announced that after evaluating more than 3,800 applicants, the American Business Awards® has tapped DCAC a winner in three of their most competitive categories:

• Technical Innovation of the Year
• Most Innovative Tech Company of the Year
• Technical Professional of the Year

DCAC received a “Technical Innovation of the Year” award for their work designing a cloud-based database on behalf the Elisabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. The database enables real-time communication between EGPAF and 5,200 medical facilities in 15 African countries.

DCAC received a “Most Innovative Tech Company of the Year” award for their impressive portfolio of technology innovation in 2018, which included innovations for Fortune 500 companies, enterprise and small businesses, and nationally renowned non-profits.

A “Technical Professional of the Year” award was granted to globally renowned Microsoft MVP and DCAC Senior Consultant Joey D’Antoni, who took on the work of company founder Denny Cherry when he was placed on extended medical leave. In January and February of 2018 alone, D’Antoni flew 30,000 miles globally to ensure all DCAC client’s needs were met to the unparalleled standard of DCAC’s world-renowned reputation.

Founder Denny Cherry commented, “On behalf of DCAC, I’d like thank the American Business Awards® for all of this overwhelming amount of recognition, especially in the face of such impressive competition. We’d also like to share the “Technical Innovation of the Year” award with the Elisabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, without whom this award wouldn’t be possible. Finally, I’d like to thank and congratulate my best friend and Senior Consultant, Joey D’Antoni for all he did when I was on medical leave. It’s one feat to be an expert in your field, it’s exponentially more difficult to act and do the work of two experts, and he did. Thank you all, we look forward to another great year at DCAC!”

DCAC received the Bronze in each category.

About Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting

Award-winning Microsoft Partner and Gold Platform certified Denny Cherry and Associates Consulting assist companies with reliably attaining IT goals such as Azure Migration, HA, scalability, SQL Server virtualization and acceleration, while finding ways to save on costs. With clients ranging from Fortune 50 corporations to small businesses, their commitment to each is the same: to provide a deft, high-speed IT environment that maximizes every aspect of their platform: from architecture, to infrastructure, to network.

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OCEANSIDE, Calif., Feb. 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting announced that renowned Microsoft MVP Meagan Longoria is joining the company as a consultant.

A Microsoft Data Platform MVP with over ten years of experience, Meagan specializes in business intelligence, data warehousing, and database development. Her areas of expertise include dimensional modeling, data integration design patterns, and data visualization, a topic she recently spoke about at the Power BI World Tour in Dallas.

CEO and Principal Denny Cherry commented, “Meagan is positively innovative in creating solutions in Azure and SQL Server that make data useful for decision makers. She’s particularly gifted as a Power BI consultant and innovator and has been influential in shaping the product with feature suggestions and feedback to Microsoft’s product team. With Power BI becoming such a critical tool in Azure solutions, she’s a perfect fit with our clients and team.”

Longoria responded, “I’ve known the consultants at Denny Cherry & Associates for years through the SQL Server Community. My chats with them at conferences and on Twitter demonstrated their incredible SQL and Azure knowledge, and I’m excited to learn from them. I feel very fortunate to work for a company that values and encourages participation in the technical community.”

About Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting

Award-winning Microsoft Partner and Gold Platform certified Denny Cherry and Associates Consulting assist companies with reliably attaining IT goals such as Azure Migration, HA, scalability, SQL Server virtualization and acceleration, while finding ways to save on costs. With clients ranging from Fortune 50 corporations to small businesses, their commitment to each is the same: to provide a deft, high-speed IT environment that maximizes every aspect of their platform: from architecture, to infrastructure, to network.

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