Tag Archives: Top vBlog

Aug 14 2017

Top vBlog 2017 Full Results

And after a couple of weeks of counting, the results of the Top vBlog for 2017 (sponsored by turbonomic) has been released by www.vsphere-land.com:

http://vsphere-land.com/news/top-vblog-2017-full-results.html

Congratulations to all 273 bloggers that make up the Top vBlog table!

Big congratulations to William Lam who takes the top spot this year… a great website I always refer to when in need of some CLI scripts to get some work done!

Also congrats to Vladan Seget and Cormac Hogan who finish 2nd and 3rd…. Vladan’s blog is particularly useful for those who are just starting out on their VMware journey as he covers all aspects of the VMware portfolio – and as an independent blogger he dedicates quite a lot of time in writing concise articles for his readers! Cormac as always is a great source of everything storage related within VMware, particularly vSAN – I always flick between him and Duncan Epping for up-to-date info around vSAN and storage!

This year I fortunate to again rank in the Top vBlog list, dropping 16 spots to 177…. which is still mighty impressive given I don’t dedicate as much time as I would like to blogging! Thanks to everyone who voted for me! =)

However, there are so many quality blogs out there which didn’t make it into the top vBlogs lists for some reason…. the likes of:

  • Emad Younis, who has great content on vCSA and migration.
  • Chanaka Ekanayake, who like me works within the Channel and has great content on VMware as well as other vendors.
  • Simon Todd, who’s a VMware SABU SE aligned to EMEA… some good stuff on vSAN.
  • Marco van Baggum, who writes some interesting articles on NSX (and also helps run the vExpert slack space)

It’ll be wrong not to also mention some vExperts who aren’t on the list like Christian Parker, Mathew Bunce….

… and the list goes on…..

Anyways, congrats to all…. we’re all winners as they say!

Jun 3 2017

Voting now open for Top vBlog 2017!

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It’s that time of year again when the VMware community starts to cast their votes as to which blog should be crowned “Top vBlog” for 2017…!

This year Duncan Epping (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/) and Frank Denneman (http://frankdenneman.nl) have decided to withdraw their blogs from the voting, which is admirable as they both always feature in the top 5 (or #1 for the past 8 years in the case of Duncan!!). From what I’ve read, both wish that other people get the recognition as sometimes the voting is based on popularity rather than content.

Maybe there should be a hall of fame that the likes of Duncan and Frank could be inducted into?!? =)

Last year, much to my surprise, I ended up ranked #161.. if I’m honest I didn’t even think I would rank! Anyways, thanks to those who voted for me…. hopefully I’ll rank again this year… it’s always nice to be recognised by your peers, but blogging for me is a hobby as I’ve got a hectic work and family life (a 20mth baby takes up alot of time…).

Anyways, head along to vSphere-land to read more about the voting rules:
http://vsphere-land.com/news/voting-now-open-for-top-vblog-2017.html

If you’re looking for a list of all vBlogs, then head over to vLaunchPad:
http://thevpad.com/

Once you’re ready to cast your vote, head over to the voting site:
http://topvblog2017.questionpro.com/

And if you’re interested in last years results, then here they are:
http://vsphere-land.com/news/top-vblog-2016-full-results.html

Voting runs until the 30th June.

… and lastly, thanks again to Eric Siebert (http://vsphere-land.com) for running and managing the voting process and to Turbonomic (https://turbonomic.com) for once again sponsoring the whole event.

Yes, I know I’m a bit late with this announcement as voting opened on the 1st June… Unfortunately I’m on holiday and it’s been difficult trying to find decent network reception on the canals of Wales – it seems you can only get 4G network when you’re near a town… =(

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