If you missed the live results show be sure and watch the replay of the special Google Hangout results show that we recorded with John Troyer and Eric Wright from Turbonomic as we count up the Top 25 results 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 bloggers that made the Top 25. 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 Turbonomic, I’ll have a form where you can enter your shipping details up in a few days, those of you that will be at the Indy VMUG or VMworld let me know and I will deliver it to you there. Bloggers who make the Top 10 will get a gold coin, 11-25 a silver coin and 26-50 a copper coin. I’ll also be coming up with a new graphic that you can display on your website if you made the Top 50.
Next year I’m looking to change this process dramatically and make the public voting be a part of an overall bigger method of determining the top bloggers, more on that later. I will also be starting a new vBlogger Spotlight series soon that is geared towards highlighting some of the lesser known bloggers outside of the top 25, if you are interested in being one of those bloggers let me know.
Special thanks to Turbonomic for sponsoring this year and making the giveaways possible.
Here are the overall voting results…
And here are the Category voting results…
| Favorite Storage Blog | Votes |
|---|---|
| Cormac Hogan | 299 |
| CloudXC (Josh Odgers) | 118 |
| Virtual Geek (Chad Sakac) | 107 |
| Punching Clouds (Rawlinson) | 84 |
| 3PAR Dude (Richard Arnold) | 72 |
| My Virtual Cloud (Andre Leibovici) | 68 |
| Cody Hosterman | 54 |
| Around the Storage Block (Calvin Zito) | 47 |
| The Storage Architect (Chris Evans) | 46 |
| Pure Storage Guy | 45 |
| StorageIO | 38 |
| VM Storage Guy (Stefan Renner) | 35 |
| Why Is the Internet Broken (Justin Parisi) | 34 |
| Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat | 33 |
| Paul Meehan | 26 |
| vTricks (Patrick Schulz) | 26 |
| Ruptured Monkey (Nigel Poulton) | 22 |
| Vipin V.K. | 22 |
| Penguinpunk.net | 21 |
| GeekFluent (Dave Henry) | 20 |
| Great White Technologies (Dave Morera) | 17 |
| This is Hyper-Awesome (G. Chapman) | 16 |
| Pragmatic IO (Brett Sinclair) | 15 |
| Hus Blog | 6 |
| Favorite Scripting Blog | Votes |
| Virtually Ghetto (William Lam) | 395 |
| Virtu-al (Alan Renouf) | 176 |
| Wahl Network (Chris Wahl) | 158 |
| vCO Team | 81 |
| Jonathan Medds Blog | 53 |
| That Could Be A Problem (Kyle Ruddy) | 53 |
| DBigCloud (Daniel Romero Sanchez) | 52 |
| Double Cloud (Steve Jin) | 49 |
| My Cloud Revolution (Markus Kraus) | 43 |
| Orchestration.io (Chris Green) | 42 |
| Steven Kang | 42 |
| Michael Ryom | 39 |
| vLenzker (Fabian Lenz) | 36 |
| Favorite Podcast | Votes |
| vBrownBag (Cody Bunch) | 245 |
| Geek Whispers (Troyer/Brender/Lewis) | 120 |
| Datanauts Podcast (Ethan Banks & Chris Wahl) | 106 |
| Nutanix .Next Community Podcast (Angelo Luciani) | 101 |
| VMware Communities Roundtable (Various) | 71 |
| In Tech We Trust Podcast (Farley/Poulton/Vanover/Chapman/Malhoit) | 62 |
| StorageIO | 60 |
| Veeam Community Podcast (R. Vanover) | 60 |
| Virtually Speaking (J. Nicholson/P. Fletcher) | 58 |
| Virtualization Security (Edward Haletky) | 49 |
| GC On Demand (Eric Wright/VMTurbo) | 46 |
| vChat (Siebert/Seagrave/Davis) | 43 |
| vSoup (Dearden/Mohn) | 37 |
| The CloudCast (A. Delp & B. Gracely) | 35 |
| Tech On Tap (NetApp/Justin Parisi) | 31 |
| Favorite New Blog | Votes |
| Matt That IT Guy (Matt Crape) | 119 |
| Rays Virtual Exchange (Ray Hassan) | 111 |
| VM Storage Guy (Stefan Renner) | 111 |
| vTimD (Tim Davis) | 103 |
| VirtualXpress (Prashant Rangi) | 77 |
| vMBaggum (Marco van Baggum) | 76 |
| vLenzker (Fabian Lenz) | 75 |
| Rob Beekmans | 72 |
| Lets Virtualize (Kanishk Sethi) | 63 |
| Learning to Virtualize (Gorka Izquierdo) | 56 |
| VMware Guruz (Sateesh Thupakula) | 56 |
| Homelaber Brasil (Valdecir Carvalho) | 50 |
| vAddicted (Raffaello Poltronieri) | 47 |
| vDelboys View (Dale Carter) | 47 |
| Inspired By Digital Tech (S. Kaushik) | 36 |
| vRevealed (Amit Rathod) | 31 |
| Favorite Independent Blogger | Votes |
| ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget) | 115 |
| VCDX133 (Rene Van Den Bedem) | 96 |
| NTPro.nl (Eric Sloof) | 82 |
| The IT Hollow (Eric Shanks) | 67 |
| CloudFix (Various) | 44 |
| vNinja (Christian Mohn) | 44 |
| Virtualization is Life! (Anthony Spiteri) | 43 |
| 3PAR Dude (Richard Arnold) | 40 |
| Come Lo Feci (Pietro Aiolfi) | 38 |
| StorageIO | 37 |
| VM Blog (David Marshall) | 28 |
| NoLabNoParty (Paolo Valsecchi) | 25 |
| ITQ Blog | 24 |
| WoodITWork (Julian Wood) | 22 |
| mwpreston dot net (Mike Preston) | 21 |
| Mike Tabor | 20 |
| Viktorious.nl (Viktor van den Berg) | 20 |
| Virtual Patel (Manish Patel) | 20 |
| VMware TV (Cahit YOLACAN) | 19 |
| doOdzZZs Notes (Abdullah Abdullah) | 18 |
| My VMworld (Noham Medyouni) | 18 |
| Running-System (Andreas Lesslhumer) | 18 |
| vLenzker (Fabian Lenz) | 18 |
| VMware Front Experience (A. Peetz) | 18 |
| DBigCloud (Daniel Romero Sanchez) | 17 |
| Myles Gray | 17 |
| Settlersoman (Mariusz Kaczorek) | 17 |
| Matt That IT Guy (Matt Crape) | 16 |
| Rob Beekmans | 16 |
| VMware & Veeam Blog (Karel Novak) | 16 |
| GeekFluent (Dave Henry) | 15 |
| Pragmatic IO (Brett Sinclair) | 15 |
| Tims IT Blog (Tim Smith) | 15 |
| The vCenterNerd (Nigel Hickey) | 14 |
| Marius Sandbu IT blog | 13 |
| Great White Technologies (Dave Morera) | 12 |
| Lets Virtualize (Kanishk Sethi) | 12 |
| ITPath (Paolo Torresani) | 11 |
| vAddicted (Raffaello Poltronieri) | 11 |
| Michael Ryom | 10 |
| The Virtual Horizon (Sean Massey) | 10 |
| vBlog.io (Cedric Quillevere) | 10 |
| Vipin V.K. | 10 |
| Federico Cocinalli | 8 |
| ukotic.net (Mark Ukotic) | 8 |
| vCloudnine (Patrick Terlisten) | 8 |
| Virtualization Blog (Shabbir Ahmed) | 8 |
| Homelaber Brasil (Valdecir Carvalho) | 7 |
| Virtually An Admin (Jonathan Stewart) | 7 |
| VMFocus (Craig Kilborn) | 7 |
| RNelson0 (Rob Nelson) | 6 |
| Port115 (Carel Maritz) | 5 |
| vMBaggum (Marco van Baggum) | 5 |
| Inspired By Digital Tech (S. Kaushik) | 3 |
| Learning to Virtualize (Gorka Izquierdo) | 1 |
| Virtualisatieadvies (Eelco de Boer) | 1 |
| Favorite VDI Blog | Votes |
| Brian Madden | 316 |
| The Virtual Horizon (Sean Massey) | 171 |
| My Virtual Vision (Kees Baggerman) | 156 |
| Virtualize Tips (Brian Suhr) | 156 |
| vHojan (Johan van Amersfoort) | 87 |
| Rob Beekmans | 84 |
| Marius Sandbu IT blog | 81 |
| Come Lo Feci (Pietro Aiolfi) | 72 |
| vDelboys View (Dale Carter) | 45 |
| Favorite News/Information Website | Votes |
| The Register (Various) | 249 |
| vSphere-land (Eric Siebert) | 209 |
| CRN (Various) | 106 |
| Petri IT Knowledgebase (Various) | 96 |
| VM Blog (David Marshall) | 78 |
| Virtualization.Info (Various) | 60 |
| InfoWorld (Various) | 57 |
| Tech Target | 53 |
| Virtualization Admin (Various) | 52 |
| Cloud Cow (Various) | 51 |
| Virtualization Software (Davis/Lowe) | 46 |
| Silicon Angle (Various) | 45 |
| Virtualization Review (Various) | 38 |
| Network World (Various) | 32 |
| The Virtualization Practice (Various) | 32 |
