VMware vExpert 2013 Application is now open

The VMware vExpert 2013 application process is now open.  As per last year there are three ways you can be assessed:

Evangelist Path
The Evangelist Path includes book authors, bloggers, tool builders, public speakers, and other IT professionals who share their knowledge and passion with others with the leverage of a personal public platform to reach many people. Employees of VMware can now also apply via the Evangelist path.

Customer Path
The Customer Path is for internal evangelists and community leaders from VMware customer organizations. They have contributed to success stories, customer references, or public interviews and talks, or were active community contributors, such as VMUG leaders. 

VPN (VMware Partner Network) Path
The VPN Path is for employees of our partner companies who lead with passion and by example, who are committed to continuous learning and to making their technical knowledge and expertise available to many. This can take shape of event participation, video, IP generation, as well as public speaking engagements.

Good luck everyone

2013 Top VMware & Virtualization blog voting results

Eric Siebert over at vSphere-land / VMware-land .com has compiled the results for the 2013 Top VMware & Virtualization blogs and I'm pleased to announce that came in ranked 196.

Now this is a great achievement for me as I don't really do enough to publicize this blog but I'm glad a few people out there read it and voted for me, Thanks whoever you are.  My aim next year is to rank in under the top 100.  A big thanks go out to Eric for compiling the list and also to TrainSignal for sponsoring it.