Top 25 Virtualization Bloggers
This week Eric Siebert processed all the votes and published this year’s Top 25 VMware/Virtualization Blogger list. Over 700 people voted, each casting 10 votes. I can only imagine the work involved that is put in to producing this list, so a big thank you goes out to Eric for voluntary organizing this! Awesome! This year a lot of new names entered the top 25 including my blog. I never ever expected to see my name published in the top 25. I’m truly honored to make it to the list, let alone be voted number #14 so I would like to thank everyone for voting for me! I really appreciate it!
Congratulations to all other people mentioned in the list and I would like to congratulate Duncan Epping specifically for taking the number 1 place again this year. The top 25 as published by Eric Siebert on vSphere-land:
| 1 | Yellow Bricks | Duncan Epping |
| 2 | Virtual Geek | Chad Sakac |
| 3 | blog.scottlowe.org | Scott Lowe |
| 4 | ntpro.nl | Eric Sloof |
| 5 | rtfm-ed.co.uk | Mike Laverick |
| 6 | Boche.net | Jason Boche |
| 7 | VM/etc | Rich Brambley |
| 8 | gabesvirtualworld.com | Gabrie van Zanten |
| 9 | virtualstorageguy | Vaughn Stewart |
| 10 | virtu-al.net | Alan Renouf |
| 1 1 | virtualization-pro | Various |
| 12 | vcritical.com | Eric Gray |
| 13 | vmwaretips.com | Rick Scherer |
| 14 | frankdenneman.nl | Frank Denneman |
| 15 | vmguy.com | Dave Lawrence |
| 16 | planetvm.net | Tom Howarth |
| 17 | The Slog | Simon Long |
| 18 | vmguru.nl | Various |
| 19 | Mike D’s Blog | Mike DiPetrillo |
| 20 | Hypervizor.com | Hany Michael |
| 21 | techhead.co.uk | Simon Seagrave |
| 22 | vreference.com | Forbes Guthrie |
| 23 | Pivot Point | Scott Drummonds |
| 24 | TechnoDrone | Maish Saidel-Keesing |
| 25 | chriswolf.com | Chris Wolf |
A new home
Being voted one of the top 25 bloggers, puts a lot of pressure on one. I hope to continue blogging articles people find interesting. And to make a good start, frankdenneman.wordpress.com moved to www.frankdenneman.nl.
Get your votes in while it can, voting closes at Friday!
Eric Siebert of vsphere-land.com started a new election of the best 20 bloggers in the VMware and Virtualization scene. Because even more top blogs got started in 2009, Eric decided to expand the top 20 to the top 25.
To my astonishment, Eric decided to nominate my blog as well. I’m really honored to be a nominee amongst the best virtualization bloggers out there. Unfortunately the list Eric is longer that the 10 votes one can cast, so good luck picking the ones who stand out above the excellent crowd.
This is my top 10 blogs;
Duncan Epping
Chad Sakac
Kenneth van Ditmarsch
Alan Renouf
Scott Lowe
Scott Drummonds
Hypervizor (Hany Michael)
Arnim van Lieshout
Arne Fokkema
Gabe Virtual world.
Go vote now before it’s too late!
http://vsphere-land.com/news/time-to-vote-for-your-favorite-bloggers.html
Wrap-up 2009
Daniel Easons blog post inspired me to write a wrap-up of 2009 myself. Beside the career move described in the previous post, 2009 was a year of finding two new addictions. Blogging and twitter(@frankdenneman). Beginning of February I started blogging and the first article was received pretty well. The article got mentioned on Yellow Bricks the same day. Now 10 months later, more than 37.000 people visited the site. It cannot hold a candle to the great blogs out there, but it’s nice start. Some of my articles appeared in a few Top 5 Planetv12n lists, got mentioned on Yellow Bricks and were featured in Scott Lowe’s virtualization short takes.
Trying to create in-depth articles is an excellent way to learn stuff. Most of the time describing a certain subject somehow challenged my current knowledge of that topic and ended up spending ridiculous amounts of time researching that particular subject. More often than not coming across very interesting material not really related to the subject but similarly interesting, consuming even more time. Some articles are more popular than others; these are the top five visited articles this year;
1. Increasing the queue depth
2. Lefthand SAN – Lessons learned
3. HP Continuous Access and the use of LUN balancing scripts
4. Impact of memory reservations
5. NFS and IP-HASH Load-Balancing
Lately I’m running into a few limitations of the free wordpress blog themes, that’s why I’ve decided to move to another site, stay tuned for the URL.
I’m aiming to release the new site at the beginning of next year.
Joining VMware
The year 2009 has been an interesting year. After leaving a long-term position, I participated in some really awesome projects, got to fiddle around with the cutting edge technology and got to work with some really excellent and inspiring people.
Begin August I got an e-mail from Duncan Epping If I would like to do some contractors work for VMware. As you can imagine, it didn’t take me long to respond with a Font size 72 YES. (Do you know you can make text blink in word?)
After completing a few project VMware offered me a permanent job, being a contractor for 9 years made the decision a bit tougher, but getting such a job offer is something you can hardly refuse.
Working with the best of the business, being able to access internal information and getting exposed to all the new stuff VMware is creating is just plain awesome. So on the 4th of January I will be joining VMware as the new Senior PSO Consultant.
