So the voting has ended, the results have been tabulated and here they are. There were over 80 new blogs on the ballot this year and 4 new blogs to make the top 25. This year there was over 1300 votes compared to around 1200 last year. 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. It’s a pretty time consuming process for me, some of it is automated but I still have to add up votes and drop them into a spreadsheet to determine the winners.

Be sure and watch the special vChat top blogger awards episode that we recorded with special guest John Troyer 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.

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Here are the overall voting results…

Blog Rank Previous Total Votes Total Points #1 Votes Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping) 1 1 843 6210 231 Frank Denneman blog 2 5 582 3557 46 Scott Lowe blog 3 2 511 2999 25 NTPro.nl (Eric Sloof) 4 3 501 2912 37 Virtual Geek (Chad Sakac) 5 4 463 2418 33 Virtually Ghetto (William Lam) 6 8 399 2267 47 Mike Laverick (RTFM Education) 7 6 438 2135 5 Virtu-al (Alan Renouf) 8 7 387 1847 9 Cormac Hogan 9 New 279 1629 27 vSphere-land (Eric Siebert) 10 10 344 1476 12 Virtualization Evangelist (Jason Boche) 11 9 277 1247 8 Wahl Network (Chris Wahl) 12 51 173 1173 39 Virtual Storage Guy (Vaughn Stewart) 13 12 194 1168 38 My Virtual Cloud (Andre Leibovici) 14 17 159 958 17 LucD (Luc Dekens) 15 14 134 762 12 ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget) 16 20 111 744 30 Datacenter Dude (Nick Howell) 17 New 114 743 13 Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat 18 25 162 693 3 Gabe's Virtual World (Gabe Van Zanten) 19 15 117 637 18 A vTexan (Tommy Trogden) 20 30 96 609 14 Long White Virtual Clouds (M. Webster) 21 New 110 606 9 Kendrick Coleman 22 37 128 598 6 TechHead (Simon Seagrave) 23 18 95 529 18 Derek Seaman's Blog 24 New 93 513 5 Brian Madden 25 24 97 506 2 Around the Storage Block (Calvin Zito) 26 33 93 489 5 The SLOG (Simon Long) 27 11 97 483 0 VCritical (Eric Gray) 28 26 80 478 13 Wikibon Blog 29 29 135 476 1 Professional VMware (Cody Bunch) 30 32 85 473 6 VMGuru.nl (Various) 31 19 83 463 19 vReference (Forbes Guthrie) 32 13 81 453 14 vSamurai (Christopher Wells) 33 39 94 445 7 IT 2.0 (Massimo Re Ferre) 34 48 84 427 3 Erik Bussink 35 New 58 398 12 2 VCP's (Jon Owings) 36 44 70 393 1 Chris Colotti's Blog 37 21 77 388 5 vClouds (Marco Broeken) 38 149 67 388 16 mwpreston dot net (Mike Preston) 39 125 63 377 8 vInfrastructure Blog (Andrew Mauro) 40 54 64 376 3 Technodrone (Maish) 41 45 59 366 13 Justin's IT Blog 42 49 62 361 14 Viktorious.nl (Viktor van den Berg) 43 New 61 360 13 vConsult (Duco Jaspars) 44 New 51 343 19 Punching Clouds (Rawlinson) 45 New 82 341 0 WoodITWork (Julian Wood) 46 60 73 341 5 Chris Wolf blog 47 36 88 337 0 Virtualize Tips (Brian Suhr) 48 47 51 325 6 The IT Hollow (Eric Shanks) 49 New 48 323 16 J Metz (J Michael Metz - Cisco) 50 28 75 319 0 The Saffa Geek (Gregg Robertson) 51 103 66 309 1 The Lone Sysadmin (Bob Plankers) 52 31 57 305 10 VMware Tips (Rick Scherer) 53 22 62 304 4 UP2V (Marcel van den Berg) 54 159 44 301 13 VMware Videos (David Davis) 55 38 53 297 8 A Crazy Penguin (Andy Wood) 56 70 53 294 1 Hypervisor.fr 57 63 49 294 3 VirtualGeekCH (Various) 58 113 43 292 8 Nickapedia (Nicholas Weaver) 59 16 50 286 1 Virten.net (Florian Grehl) 60 New 63 285 1 Storage Mojo (Robin Harris) 61 New 55 285 1 Virtual Langer (Jason Langer) 62 New 51 283 5 The Storage Architect (Chris Evans) 63 40 53 279 1 VDICloudn.nl (Arjan Timmerman) 64 New 46 273 2 Mikes.eu (Roy Mikes) 65 New 48 272 6 VM Guru (Scott Herold) 66 43 64 266 1 Storagezilla (EMC - Mark Twomey) 67 New 53 264 1 Pivot point (Scott Drummonds) 68 23 55 262 0 StorageIO (Greg Schulz) 69 46 52 259 2 Virtual Blog (David Hill) 70 New 58 259 4 Virtual Admin Notes (Anton Zhbankov) 71 71 43 257 12 The Virtualization Effect (NetApp) 72 New 65 255 3 vNinja (Christian Mohn) 73 57 60 243 1 Geek After Five (Jake Robinson) 74 New 45 240 2 The Lower Case W (Matt Liebowitz) 75 56 38 237 9 VMpros.nl (Sander Daems) 76 80 39 233 8 What Would Dan Do (Dan Brinkmann) 77 74 43 231 7 50 mu (Rob Koper) 78 New 34 230 1 Hu's Blog (HDS - Hu Yoshida) 79 66 30 229 16 The Virtualization Practice (Various) 80 50 38 228 10 vExperienced (Edward Grigson) 81 118 43 224 4 VMwareMine 82 New 36 224 7 Planet VM (Tom Howarth) 83 68 48 221 2 Mike D's blog (Mike DiPetrillo) 84 35 45 220 1 Virtual Patel (Manish Patel) 85 New 48 217 3 Rickard Nobel 86 109 48 217 1 vTesseract (Josh Atwell) 87 73 49 213 2 Burdweiser (James Burd) 88 143 30 212 11 Backup Central (W. Curtis Preston) 89 65 43 211 1 IT Blood Pressure (Dwayne Lessner) 90 156 41 210 3 Virt for Service Providers (Jeramiah Dooley) 91 123 40 208 1 View Yonder (Steve Chambers) 92 146 41 207 2 Musings of Rodos (Rodney Haywood) 93 185 38 205 1 VMFocus (Craig Kilborn) 94 New 30 205 12 Vuemuer.it (Luca Dell'Oca) 95 New 34 202 4 The Foglite (E. Rowe/A. Scorsone) 96 New 31 200 11 Tom Fojta's Blog 97 New 38 192 1 vFrank (Frank Brix Pedersen) 98 121 38 192 1 Virtual Aleph (Manlio Frizzi) 99 New 32 192 11 Knudt Blog (Brian Knudtson) 100 140 39 192 1 VMdamentals (Erik Zandboer) 101 98 32 190 1 ICT-Freak.nl (Arne Fokkema) 102 76 37 188 1 Ken's Virtual Reality (Ken Cline) 103 152 36 186 0 vHorizon (Dale Scriven) 104 New 39 186 3 Aaron Delp Blog 105 59 42 186 1 VMware & Veeam Blog (Karel Novak) 106 New 32 185 7 vElemental (Clint Kitson) 107 130 47 185 1 Rickatron Blog (Rick Vanover) 108 58 34 183 4 Penguinpunk.net (Dan Frith) 109 New 37 182 2 The VM Guy (Dave Lawrence) 110 69 40 181 3 Vinf.net (Simon Gallagher) 111 108 41 179 1 Ivo Beerens 112 83 41 178 1 Malaysia VM (Various) 113 166 37 177 1 VSpecialist (Michael Poore) 114 75 35 177 6 By The Bell (Steve Kaplan) 115 119 32 175 3 vCloud Info (Carlo Costanzo) 116 126 34 174 6 vDestination (Greg Stuart) 117 112 36 174 3 Clouds Of Change (Brian Gracely) 118 New 32 173 3 Jase's Place (Jase McCarty) 119 94 32 173 1 Arnim van Lieshout 120 61 36 170 1 Rational Survivability (Christofer Hoff) 121 85 29 170 2 vSential (James Bowling) 122 168 29 168 6 Virtualization Spotlight (P. Redknap) 123 107 24 165 12 VM Today (Joshua Townsend) 124 122 31 165 2 A Day In The Life (Adam Baum) 125 99 37 164 0 ValCo Labs (Josh Coen) 126 167 32 164 1 Virtual Noob (Chad King) 127 117 41 162 0 Demitasse (Alastair Cooke) 128 131 31 162 3 The Data Center Overlords (Tony Bourke) 129 100 28 161 1 Virtual Tech (Dan Fallon) 130 New 33 159 0 yoyoclouds (Yohan Wadia) 131 New 40 159 2 HyperVizor (Hany Michael) 132 27 32 158 4 Messaging-Virtualization (Andrey Pogosyan) 133 New 29 158 3 Run-virtual (Richard Garsthagen) 134 105 35 158 1 vNoob (Conrad Ramos) 135 163 36 158 2 Virtual Future (Sven Huisman) 136 153 31 157 2 Virtual Planet (Ricky El-Qasem) 137 97 29 155 3 vNugglets (Allen Crawford) 138 New 33 155 1 Deep Storage (Howard Marks) 139 New 31 154 0 Virtual Lifestyle (Joep Piscaer) 140 137 38 154 2 Virtual Insanity (S. Sauer/A. Sweemer) 141 72 31 152 0 Ray On Storage (Ray Lucchesi) 142 53 33 151 0 VMware Front Experience (Andreas Peetz) 143 162 25 149 7 VM Dude (Frederic Martin) 144 New 31 145 2 GestaltIT (Various) 145 34 24 141 2 Jonathan Medd's Blog 146 91 30 141 3 Peeters Online (Hugo Peeters) 147 161 32 140 0 Peacon Blog (James Pearce) 148 136 26 140 1 Double Cloud (Steve Jin) 149 67 21 139 1 Running-System (Andi Lesslhumer) 150 New 21 138 3 vXpress (Sunny Dua) 151 New 31 137 1 MY Vmware Blog (Jeremy Chivers) 152 New 35 136 0 Poshoholic (Kirk Munro) 153 116 27 135 1 The HyperAdvisor (Antone Heyward) 154 102 30 135 1 Hans De Leenheer 155 New 21 132 1 Gerbens Blog (G. Kloosterman) 156 173 22 131 1 Another Day In IT (Bobby Stampfle) 157 New 28 128 1 Dmitry's PowerBlog 158 New 24 128 0 Storagebod (Martin Glassborow) 159 82 24 127 1 Adventures in a Virtual World (Paul Grevink) 160 New 27 127 2 Aravind Sivaraman 161 New 28 126 0 Storage Soup (Tech Target) 162 New 27 126 0 VirtualClouds (Hugo Strydom) 163 New 31 125 0 Phil the Virtualizer (Philip Ditzel) 164 New 28 124 2 DiscoPosse (Eric Wright) 165 New 20 123 2 vmDK (Damian Karlson) 166 96 33 123 1 Virtual Bits & Bytes (Niels Engelen) 167 New 27 122 1 Everyday Virtualization (Rick Vanover) 168 90 21 122 1 The Eager Zero (Michael Stump) 169 New 23 119 3 Thankfully the RAID is Gone (G. Chapman) 170 New 19 119 1 The SAN Man (Archie Hendryx) 171 New 21 117 2 Stuart Radnidge 172 165 28 116 1 Virtualised Reality (Barry Coombs) 173 93 25 116 2 Robert van den Nieuwendijk's Blog 174 145 22 115 2 VMware Training & Certification (S. Vessey) 175 64 30 114 1 Andi Mann - Ubergeek 176 92 23 114 4 SOS Tech (Josh Andrews) 177 New 23 111 1 Tim's IT Blog (Tim Smith) 178 New 24 111 3 Virtual VCP (Rynardt Spies) 179 87 24 111 1 The Solutions Architect (Michael Letschin) 180 New 21 110 1 ThinkCloud.nl (Martijn Baecke) 181 164 24 110 0 Stu McHugh's Virtualisation Blog 182 New 25 105 2 Infoworld Virtualization Report (D. Marshall) 183 124 18 105 4 Virtualization Eh (Mark Achtemichuk) 184 New 21 99 0 VM/ETC (Rich Brambley) 185 41 26 97 0 Everything Virtual (Simon Davies) 186 88 18 97 3 Blue Gears (Edward Haletky) 187 139 20 96 0 Shogan.tech (Sean Duffy) 188 New 19 96 0 Enterprise Admins (Brian Wuchner) 189 183 17 95 1 GeekSilver's Blog 190 184 23 95 0 Storage Tuning (Jamon Bowen) 191 New 22 95 0 Jume (Bouke Groenescheij) 192 154 17 94 0 Virtual Management (Marco Giuricin) 193 New 21 94 0 Ruptured Monkey (Nigel Poulton) 194 55 17 93 1 Juanma's Blog (Juan Manuel) 195 81 17 92 2 M80ARM - Virt. Warrior (Michael Armstrong) 196 New 22 92 0 Virtually Mike Brown (Mike Brown) 197 New 27 92 0 Cloud-Buddy (Bilal Hashmi) 198 133 18 91 1 Virtual SMB (Will Huber) 199 115 19 91 1 Blue Shift Blog (Kevin Kelling) 200 148 20 91 1 Orchestrate This! (Magnus Ullberg) 201 New 18 90 0 VMexplorer (Matt Mancini) 202 142 16 90 1 blog.rack.org.au (Craig Waters) 203 New 19 89 1 VM Trooper (Trevor Roberts) 204 New 18 89 1 VM-Ice (Larus Hjartarson) 205 New 19 89 0 Default Reasoning (Marek Z) 206 New 17 88 1 VirtuallyLG (Lorenzo Galelli) 207 155 21 88 0 VMAdmin (Fletcher Cocquyt) 208 New 25 88 0 VM-blog.info (Mourad) 209 New 20 87 0 VMworld.net (Andi Lesslhumer) 210 89 21 87 0 VMBulletin (Rick Schlander) 211 111 18 87 2 vPourchet (Valentin Pourchet) 212 New 19 86 1 VMware Admins (Eric Sarakaitis) 213 132 22 85 0 ITuda (Lieven D'hoore) 214 New 14 83 1 DeinosCloud (Didier Pironet) 215 181 15 83 1 It's Just Another Layer (Ian K.) 216 175 17 83 2 Cosonok's IT Blog (David Cookson) 217 New 17 81 0 I'm Tellin' Ya Now! (Mike Foley) 218 New 19 81 1 VM Admin (Andy Barnes) 219 114 18 79 1 Elastic Sky (Paul McSharry) 220 New 15 78 0 vKnowledge.net (Mario Mack) 221 New 20 77 0 VMwire (Hugo Phan) 222 New 17 77 1 Virtual Potholes (AJ Kuftic) 223 New 16 77 2 VMwise (Kanuj Behl) 224 160 13 76 2 Virtualization Buster (J. Franconi) 225 134 11 75 2 Virtually Speaking (Dan Kusnetzky) 226 157 17 71 0 VMnick (Nick Fritsch) 227 New 15 70 1 The Virtual Headline (Pete Del Rey) 228 New 12 66 2 vReality (Tomi Hakala) 229 187 17 65 0 Cloud Computing Infrastructure (Bill Carter) 230 New 10 61 0 Storage Nerve (Devang Panchigar) 231 42 14 60 0 Cloud Jock (Todd Mace) 232 New 10 59 1 Eprich (Paul Richards) 233 186 11 59 0 Eck Tech (Adam Eckerle) 234 New 11 56 0 Virtualizing the D.C. (Tony Wilburn) 235 172 14 55 0 InfoTech Consulting Blog (Yendis Lambert) 236 New 13 52 1 doOdzZZ's Notes (Abdullah Abdullah) 237 New 11 50 0 VMwarewolf (Richard Blythe) 238 171 13 47 0 TechProsaic (Hal Rottenberg) 239 127 10 47 1 Virtualization Information (S. Snowden) 240 110 7 44 3 Roger Lund IT/VMware Blog (Roger Lund) 241 170 10 35 0 SearchServerVirtualization Blog (Various) 242 86 10 35 0 Virtualization Team (Eiad Al-Aqqad) 243 101 8 25 0

And here are the top blog category winners…

Favorite Storage Blog Votes Cormac Hogan 319 Virtual Geek 291 Virtual Storage Guy 265 Around the Storage Block 123 Hus Blog 55 Stephen Foskett 53 Jases Place 45 Hans De Leenheer 43 Wikibon Blog 31 Penguinpunk.net 28 None of these listed here 121 Favorite Scripting Blog Votes Virtually Ghetto 282 Virtu-al 215 LucD 183 VM Dude 65 VMpros.nl 62 vNoob 61 Technodrone 50 Jonathan Medd 42 Phil the Virtualizer 36 Enterprise Admins 34 DiscoPosse 32 Shogan.tech 23 Robert van den Nieuwendijk 22 None of these listed here 268 Favorite Podcast Votes vBrownBag 323 Chinwag 127 vChat 124 The CloudCast 82 Get Scripting 62 vCatchup 62 Virtualization Security Roundtable 51 Data Center Insiders 50 Adapting IT 46 CloudViews Unplugged 46 APAC Virtualization Roundtable 31 None of these listed here 371 Favorite New Blog Votes Cormac Hogan 343 Mike Laverick 155 The IT Hollow 79 Viktorious.nl 74 Virtual Patel 74 VMware & Veeam Blog 67 VMFocus 59 My VMware Blog 40 vKnowledge.net 31 Another Day in IT 30 Running-System 27 blog.rack.org.au 22 vXpress 22 Cloud Jock 20 Virten.net 19 Aravind Sivaraman 18 Messaging-Virtualization 18 doOdzZZ's Notes 9 None of these listed here 265 Favorite Independent Blogger Votes Wahl Network 153 NTPro.nl 145 ESX Virtualization 61 VMGuru.nl 58 Mikes.eu 52 vReference 49 LucD 48 Technodrone 39 Erik Bussink 34 WoodITWork 34 Derek Seaman 32 The Saffa Geek 31 Viktorious.nl 26 VM Dude 26 Another Day in IT 24 What Would Dan Do 24 vCloud Info 23 vInfrastructure Blog 23 vExperienced 21 VirtualGeekCH 21 VMpros.nl 21 VMware & Veeam Blog 21 By The Bell 20 Virtual Aleph 17 vNoob 17 VSpecialist 17 Penguinpunk.net 15 VMFocus 14 mwpreston dot net 13 Robert van den Nieuwendijk 13 vDestination 12 Virtual Langer 12 VMware Front Experience 12 Enterprise Admins 10 blog.rack.org.au 9 Vuemuer.it 9 DiscoPosse 8 ValCo Labs 8 Virtualised Reality 8 Cloud Jock 7 Default Reasoning 7 Jonathan Medd 6 My VMware Blog 3 Shogan.tech 3 Virten.net 3 None of these listed here 166