So the voting has ended, the results have been tabulated and here they are. There were almost 90 new blogs on the ballot this year and 3 new blogs to make the top 25. This year there was over 2200 votes compared to around 1400 last year. You can read more stats about this years voting here. Voters were asked to pick their top 10 favorite blogs and them rank them from 1 to 10. The votes are weighted so a #1 vote is worth 10 points, a #2 vote is worth 9 points all the way down to a #10 vote being worth 1 point. The total points for each blog were added up to determine the results.
If you missed the live results show be sure and watch the replay of the special Google Hangout awards episode that we recorded with Simon Seagrave, John Troyer and Scott Davis from Infinio as we count up the top 25 winners with lots of color commentary. The vLaunchpad and Planet vSphere-land will be updated soon to reflect the new voting results. Thank you everyone who voted and congratulations to the winners. With so many bloggers out there its a tough scene but I seriously encourage you all to keep at it, the longer you stick with it, the more people notice and will reward you with their vote. You guys are all winners, I know how hard it can be to find the time to blog but do know that your efforts are appreciated and your unselfish dedication makes a difference to a great many of people.
This year any blogger that made the Top 50 will get a special 2″ commemorative coin courtesy of Infinio, I’ll have a form where you can enter your shipping details up in a few days. Bloggers who make the top 10 will get a gold coin, 11-25 a silver coin and 26-50 a copper coin. Also if you’d like a free metal holder for your coin go to this post and re-tweet it. Finally we have another vendor jumping in to get you all a cool metal holder ring with lanyard so you can proudly wear your coin around your neck at VMware events, more details on that soon.
Special thanks to Infinio for sponsoring this year and making the giveaways possible.
Here are the overall voting results…
Here are the full category results…
| Favorite Storage Blog | Votes |
|---|---|
| Cormac Hogan | 458 |
| Virtual Geek (Chad Sakac) | 218 |
| Around the Storage Block (Calvin Zito) | 94 |
| Datacenter Dude (Nick Howell) | 91 |
| Steven Poitras | 91 |
| My Virtual Cloud (Andre Leibovici) | 82 |
| Punching Clouds (Rawlinson) | 79 |
| CloudXC (Josh Odgers) | 69 |
| Pure Storage Guy (Vaughn Stewart) | 60 |
| The Storage Architect (Chris Evans) | 57 |
| Deep Storage (Howard Marks) | 45 |
| StorageIO (Greg Schulz) | 45 |
| Cody Hosterman | 41 |
| 3PAR Dude (Richard Arnold) | 39 |
| Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat | 36 |
| Paul Meehan | 34 |
| Glicks Gray Matter (Neil Glick) | 27 |
| vClouds (Marco Broeken) | 26 |
| A vTexan (Tommy Trogden) | 25 |
| Virtual Valley (Mo Elamin) | 25 |
| Blog.bertello.org (Giuliano Bertello) | 18 |
| Pragmatic IO (Brett Sinclair) | 18 |
| Todd Mace | 18 |
| Vipin V.K. | 17 |
| Wikibon | 17 |
| doOdzZZs Notes (Abdullah Abdullah) | 16 |
| Hus Blog (HDS - Hu Yoshida) | 16 |
| VirtualBoy (Aakash Jacob) | 16 |
| Ray On Storage (Ray Lucchesi) | 14 |
| Why Is The Internet Broken? (J. Parisi) | 14 |
| VI Kernel (Gareth Hogarth) | 13 |
| Jases Place (Jase McCarty) | 12 |
| Keith Norbie Virtual Ideas | 12 |
| Ruptured Monkey (Nigel Poulton) | 12 |
| Penguinpunk.net | 9 |
| Logical Block (Ashish Palekar) | 6 |
| None of these listed here | 256 |
| Favorite Scripting Blog | Votes |
| Virtually Ghetto (William Lam) | 446 |
| LucD (Luc Dekens) | 206 |
| Virtu-al (Alan Renouf) | 194 |
| vCO Team | 118 |
| Steven Poitras | 111 |
| MyVirtuaLife.Net (Andrea Casini) | 67 |
| Dmitrys PowerBlog | 57 |
| vGeek (Kunal Udapi) | 57 |
| Jonathan Medd | 55 |
| Seans IT Blog (Sean Massey) | 51 |
| Double Cloud (Steve Jin) | 45 |
| Blog.bertello.org (Giuliano Bertello) | 41 |
| DBigCloud (Daniel Romero Sanchez) | 39 |
| That Could Be A Problem (Kyle Ruddy) | 35 |
| vTagion (Brian Graf) | 35 |
| Orchestrate This! (Magnus Ullberg) | 34 |
| vNugglets (Allen Crawford) | 24 |
| DefinIT (Sam McGeown/Simon Eady) | 22 |
| Shogan.tech (Sean Duffy) | 21 |
| Steven Kang | 21 |
| Orchestration.io (Chris Green) | 16 |
| Pragmatic IO (Brett Sinclair) | 16 |
| None of these listed here | 417 |
| Favorite Podcast | Votes |
| vBrownBag (Cody Bunch) | 308 |
| VMware Communities Roundtable (Various) | 130 |
| Geek Whispers (Troyer/Brender/Lewis) | 114 |
| Chinwag (Mike Laverick) | 110 |
| Datacenter Dude (Nick Howell) | 102 |
| vSoup (Dearden/Mohn) | 85 |
| StorageIO (Greg Schulz) | 80 |
| In Tech We Trust Podcast (Farley/Poulton/Vanover/Chapman/De Leenheer) | 77 |
| vCatchup (Craig Waters) | 72 |
| Veeam Community Podcast (R. Vanover) | 70 |
| Get Scripting (Various) | 59 |
| vChat (Siebert/Seagrave/Davis) | 54 |
| Virtualization Security (Edward Haletky) | 50 |
| Size Matters (Various) | 48 |
| VUPaaS (Khalsa/Wahl/Atwell) | 46 |
| The CloudCast (A. Delp & B. Gracely) | 38 |
| None of these listed here | 731 |
| Favorite New Blog | Votes |
| vMiss (Melissa Palmer) | 168 |
| VCDX133 (Rene Van Den Bedem) | 134 |
| Emad Younis Blog | 74 |
| CloudFix (Various) | 62 |
| The Virtualist (The Virtualist team) | 58 |
| 3PAR Dude (Richard Arnold) | 49 |
| VirtualBoy (Aakash Jacob) | 42 |
| VCDX Blog (Will Huber) | 41 |
| Settlersoman (Mariusz Kaczorek) | 40 |
| Blog VMware (Leandro Ariel Leonhardt) | 38 |
| CloudManiac (Roman Decker) | 36 |
| DBigCloud (Daniel Romero Sanchez) | 32 |
| Why Is The Internet Broken? (J. Parisi) | 32 |
| VMware Minds (Anjani Kumar) | 31 |
| Steven Kang | 30 |
| vCloudnine (Patrick Terlisten) | 30 |
| V-Desktop (Colas Fabrice) | 29 |
| ITPath (Paolo Torresani) | 28 |
| Virtual Red-dot (Iwan Rahabok) | 28 |
| Virtualization Blog (Shabbir Ahmed) | 28 |
| Nigel Hickey | 27 |
| Imran Qureshi | 25 |
| Pragmatic IO (Brett Sinclair) | 24 |
| RNelson0 (Rob Nelson) | 24 |
| vBuffer (Zlatko Mitev) | 24 |
| vSpace (Parthasarathi) | 24 |
| Route To Cloud (Roie Ben Haim) | 23 |
| The VDI Sage (Kenneth Slish) | 23 |
| VI Kernel (Gareth Hogarth) | 23 |
| Educational Center (Dean Lewis) | 22 |
| VirtualementVotre (Cedric Megroz) | 22 |
| VCDX181 (Marc Huppert) | 18 |
| vZare (Preetam Zare) | 18 |
| Virtual Pharaohs (Shady El-Malatawey) | 17 |
| VM Spot (Matt Bradford) | 16 |
| IT Diversified (Bryan Krausen) | 14 |
| Jose M Hernandez | 12 |
| vmdaemon (Mohammed Salem) | 12 |
| Blog.bertello.org (Giuliano Bertello) | 11 |
| VMZone (Jilesh Kacha) | 11 |
| Great White Technologies (Dave Morera) | 8 |
| MindJudo (Laurens van Gunst) | 7 |
| Kanap.net (Fried Eva) | 6 |
| Virtualis.info (VR Bitman) | 6 |
| None of these listed here | 728 |
| Favorite Independent Blogger | Votes |
| Wahl Network (Chris Wahl) | 234 |
| NTPro.nl (Eric Sloof) | 137 |
| LucD (Luc Dekens) | 68 |
| VMGuru (Various) | 62 |
| ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget) | 59 |
| VCDX133 (Rene Van Den Bedem) | 58 |
| vNinja (Christian Mohn) | 52 |
| SnowVM Bog (Rene Bos) | 47 |
| The IT Hollow (Eric Shanks) | 42 |
| Seans IT Blog (Sean Massey) | 39 |
| StorageIO (Greg Schulz) | 37 |
| vInfrastructure Blog (Andrew Mauro) | 37 |
| 3PAR Dude (Richard Arnold) | 36 |
| CloudFix (Various) | 36 |
| Settlersoman (Mariusz Kaczorek) | 35 |
| MyVirtuaLife.Net (Andrea Casini) | 32 |
| DBigCloud (Daniel Romero Sanchez) | 31 |
| Viktorious.nl (Viktor van den Berg) | 28 |
| VMFocus (Craig Kilborn) | 28 |
| Virtualization is Life! (Anthony Spiteri) | 27 |
| VMware Front Experience (A. Peetz) | 27 |
| vGeek (Kunal Udapi) | 26 |
| Virtual Valley (Mo Elamin) | 25 |
| mwpreston dot net (Mike Preston) | 24 |
| Come Lo Feci (Pietro Aiolfi) | 22 |
| Perfect Cloud (Rasmus Haslund) | 22 |
| Running-System (Andreas Lesslhumer) | 22 |
| The Saffa Geek (Gregg Robertson) | 22 |
| Virtual Langer (Jason Langer) | 21 |
| WoodITWork (Julian Wood) | 21 |
| Vroom Blog (Fouad El Akkad/Alban Lecorps) | 19 |
| NoLabNoParty (Paolo Valsecchi) | 18 |
| VirtualementVotre (Cedric Megroz) | 18 |
| Mike Tabor | 17 |
| vClouds (Marco Broeken) | 17 |
| RNelson0 (Rob Nelson) | 16 |
| Educational Center (Dean Lewis) | 15 |
| Tims IT Blog (Tim Smith) | 15 |
| Virtually Mike Brown (Mike Brown) | 15 |
| That Could Be A Problem (Kyle Ruddy) | 14 |
| Virtualize Planet (Ricky El-Qasem) | 14 |
| All About Virtualization (Akmal Waheed) | 13 |
| VMware & Veeam Blog (Karel Novak) | 12 |
| Penguinpunk.net | 11 |
| vCloudnine (Patrick Terlisten) | 11 |
| Everything Should Be Virtual (Larry Smith) | 10 |
| Pragmatic IO (Brett Sinclair) | 10 |
| V-Desktop (Colas Fabrice) | 10 |
| The VDI Sage (Kenneth Slish) | 9 |
| Amits Technology Blog (Amit Panchal) | 8 |
| Imran Qureshi | 8 |
| VI Kernel (Gareth Hogarth) | 8 |
| Ather Begs Useful Thoughts (Ather Beg) | 7 |
| DefinIT (Sam McGeown/Simon Eady) | 7 |
| doOdzZZs Notes | 7 |
| IT Diversified (Bryan Krausen) | 7 |
| Uber Tech Geek (Marc Crawford) | 7 |
| VM Spot (Matt Bradford) | 7 |
| Blog.bertello.org (Giuliano Bertello) | 6 |
| Pascals Wereld (Pascal Heldoorn) | 6 |
| vExpertise (F. Lenz/M. Ewald) | 6 |
| Virtual Pharaohs (Shady El-Malatawey) | 6 |
| Virtualization Blog (Shabbir Ahmed) | 6 |
| Show me the Hypervi$or (Matt Heldstab) | 5 |
| VirtualWorldUK (Chris Bell) | 5 |
| Virtual Me (Joseph Griffiths) | 4 |
| VirtualizeMyDC (A. Pogosyan) | 4 |
| Great White Technologies (Dave Morera) | 3 |
| Michael Ryom | 3 |
| Northtech Consulting (Yendis Lambert) | 3 |
| MindJudo (Laurens van Gunst) | 2 |
| None of these listed here | 448 |
| Favorite VDI Blog | Votes |
| Brian Madden | 288 |
| My Virtual Cloud (Andre Leibovici) | 280 |
| IT Blood Pressure (Dwayne Lessner) | 127 |
| Ray Heffer | 87 |
| Virtualize Tips (Brian Suhr) | 87 |
| Seans IT Blog (Sean Massey) | 70 |
| V-Desktop (Colas Fabrice) | 69 |
| My Virtual Vision (Kees Baggerman) | 64 |
| The VDI Sage (Kenneth Slish) | 61 |
| MyVirtuaLife.Net (Andrea Casini) | 58 |
| Imran Qureshi | 53 |
| Glicks Gray Matter (Neil Glick) | 49 |
| Virtualize Planet (Ricky El-Qasem) | 47 |
| Horizon Flux (Tim Arenz) | 43 |
| Virtual Fabric (Chris Beckett) | 40 |
| Blog.bertello.org (Giuliano Bertello) | 34 |
| Come Lo Feci (Pietro Aiolfi) | 30 |
| doOdzZZs Notes | 30 |
| Nigel Hickey | 28 |
| ITuda (Lieven D'hoore) | 24 |
| None of these listed here | 629 |
| Favorite News/Information Website | Votes |
| The Register (Various) | 413 |
| vSphere-land (Eric Siebert) | 260 |
| Petri IT Knowledgebase (Various) | 165 |
| CRN (Various) | 116 |
| Virtualization.Info (Various) | 104 |
| VM Blog (David Marshall) | 98 |
| Wikibon | 95 |
| Tech Targets SearchVMware | 85 |
| InfoWorld (Various) | 80 |
| Virtualization Admin (Various) | 74 |
| Network World (Various) | 62 |
| Cloud Cow (Various) | 57 |
| Virtualization Review (Various) | 50 |
| The Virtualization Practice (Various) | 48 |
| None of these listed here | 484 |
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3 comments
Nice work, but how are the points calculated? From the table, there are 1923 total Votes (#1 Votes, assuming everyone has a #1). Also everyone is worh 55 points (10+9+…+1=55). 1923*55 is 105765, but there are 115952 points in the table. Where do that points came from?
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Some suspicious votes get tossed which impacts the point totals from adding up perfectly
Great list. Thanks for taking the time digging into the internet and bringing such useful and organized information.
Yes, I do like to know your scoring process.