Ever since I've had this blog I've tried to grab up some sponsors to run a New Years contest! This year I've been lucky enough to get a couple of great sponsors with more prizes than ever! So, if I'm lucky, that means your lucky as you could be the winner of some of the awesome vSphere material below.
First up is VMware Press – partnered with Pearson they are the official publisher of VMware books and training material! If you are a reader of this blog you no doubt are familiar with VMware Press. They have a great library of material written by some of the smartest virtualization rockstar minds there is! If you have some time definitely go check out their line up as it is fantastic!
And back again is TrainSignal, however this time in the form of Pluralsight! I've used a ton of Pluralsight's material to prepare for my certifications, to prepare better for my day job, as well as just learn more in regards to VMware and vSphere. But Pluralsight doesn't stop there – if it exists in technology then they more than likely have a course for it! Again, go and check out their library for yourself.
Ok, enough enough – time for the prizes. If one of your new years resolutions was to get certified or to simply just learn more about virtualization then you are reading the right blog post! This year I've got more prizes than ever so I can really spread the joy around the community.
Prize Pack 1 – The mother of all certification books
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| The Official VCP5 Certification Guide | The Official VCP5-DT Certification Guide | The Offical VCP-Cloud Certification Guide | The Offical VCAP5-DCD Certification Guide |
Thats right! You could get your hands on the official VCP5 DCV, VCP5-DT, VCP-Cloud and VCAP-DCD certification guides! A wack of material for anyone looking to expand their certification resume!
Prize Pack 2 – The mother of all vSphere Administration books
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| Managing and Optimizing VMware vSphere Deployments | vSphere 5 – building a virtual datacenter | Virtualizing Microsoft Business Critical Applications on VMware vSphere 5 | VMware vSphere 5 Jumpstart (Video Training) (DVD) |
Anyone that looks after a vSphere environment can definitely benefit from this group of prizes! From building your virtualized datacenter, to optimizing it for performance and virtualizing those business critical applications – VMware Press has you covered!
Prize Pack 3 – The mother of all video training.
If you haven't had the opportunity to check out Pluralsights line-up of courses you can do so by signing up for a free 10 day trial on their website! Well, I can do you one better! I've got a total of 8 one month trial keys to hand out to the community compliments of Pluralsight! That's 30 full days to experience the magic that is Pluralsight video training!
Entry is pretty simple – just leave a comment below to enter. For extra ballots simply send out the tweet! Again, I've decided to use Punchtab to run this so be sure to follow the instructions in the widget below! This contest will close at 11 pm EST on Wednesday, January 15th – Good luck and #HappyNewSphere
UPDATE
VMware Press has graciously generated a promo code that will get all #HappyNewSphere entrants 35% off at checkout on vmwarepress.com – So I guess everybody wins!!! Watch your emails for the code sometime after the contest has ended!!!
Great prizes!!!
Sweet giveaway 🙂 fingers crossed!!
Will be doing VCP next month, so here’s hoping 🙂
thanks
Working towards my vcp
Oh wow, 1 or 2 would be amazing!
wow!
Nice work
I could use some material to help with my VCAP-DCD so this would be groovy.
Would love the certification books
Would love Prize Pack 1!
Thanks for creating great opportunity, I love Pack 1& 2.
Great prizes. Also interested in more knowledge.
Would love Prize Pack 1 or 2. Those are amazing.
Great idea!!!
Always room for more books
I would like to join the contest!
Great giveaway, thanks Mike!
if your not learning something new your dying.
Excited for the giveaway
Thanks! Great opportunity!
Nice one, just in time for the cert preparations:)
Heck of a way to kick off the New Year, thanks Mike!
looking forward to a very good year
Great contribution to the community!
Great contest… my goal for 2014 is VCDX… so would be nice with materials to read and videos to watch… Thanks for taking your time to do this contest.
Cool. I m in.
Thanks Mike, Happy New Year!
It’s always great to get something you can really use!
Sweet blog vDB
Count me in! 🙂
Wow, great!
Any Prize Pack would be great!!!
Thanks Mike!!!
Best Regards!
vSphere and me …just cant resist…I am in ..buddy
Great blog & contest!
Perfect prizes for anyone studying their certs.
These are certainly useful prizes.
Always a good thing to add more material to the work/professional library.
nice prizes, and useful
Congrats on passing the VCAP-DCA
Studying for my VCP5 right now, any of these would be a great help.
Great prizes for great people by great company in great year of superior oppotunities!
Would love to add those to my collection!
Nice. Thanks for organising this 🙂
Great prizes, fingers crossed! 🙂
Nice!
Great contest and prizes! Thanks!
Aspiring to get VCAP-DCV Certification !
Cool giveaway for starting the year
Thanks for the contest!
Great prizes ! Thanks for this contest.
Nice prises and thank you for the contest once again.
Good contest and nice prizes, and useful.
Great contest. I would like to join
Best of luck to everyone (but I’m selfishly hopeful).
Great contest, Prize Pack 2 would be the win for me. Getting deeper in my datacenter.
Wonderful giveaway – I will share this with my friends !
Thanks for the contest!
Nice! thanks for the chance!
Thanks a lot for the contest!
What a great deal! Thanx for doing the contest, and thanx to the vendors for the prizes!!
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Very interesting prize. Good luck everyone
Holy Cow! *fingers crossed* for Prize Pack 2! 🙂
Good Luck to all! 🙂
WOW! Awesome stuff. Can’t wait to see what I am gonna win! *hopes*
Man what sweet prizes!
Nice price!
This is a great opportunity to win some great material Thanks!!
Nice contest! Materials could be useful for my VCP & VCAP preparation.
Great contest Mike! Prize pack 3 would be my ‘choice’, but I certainly wouldn’t refuse 1 or 2 either…
Great contest with excellent prizes!
Love VMware Press books and Pluralsight looks awesome as well. Excellent prizes!
This is a cool contest! I want price pack 1. It will be a great help for my review and preparation for VCP. 🙂
Sign me up. 🙂
Nice
Awesome!
Excellent choice of prizes
Awesome prizes! Thanks so much for this opportunity for us.
Cool would be great 🙂
Great idea
New year..new stuff..Can’t wait to learn more 🙂
This is an amazing set of prizes, happy new year indeed!
Thanks for the contest and great prizes!
thanks for the contest wish me luck 🙂
Great Contest! Best of luck everyone!
Sign me up. 😉 Thanks!
Wow… I want prizes from every Prize Pack =D
Vmware rocks
Amazing prices. You can never learn enough 🙂
I want it !
Thanks for the contest!
Hi I was informed that I won the Pularsight.. and I just replied… please kindly respond.. thanks… Ray MA
Didn’t win, but I’d just like to say thanks to you for running the giveaway, and all the sponsors for the prizes. Think I’m going to take advantage of the VMware Press discount come the weekend.