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Reading Time: < 1 minuteEach big vendor has some kind of “community award” for individuals who have significantly contributed to the community of the specific vendor’s users over the past year. Those kind of “experts” could be book authors, bloggers, leaders in some communities, tool builders, and other IT professionals who share their knowledge and passion with others. These people have gone above and beyond their day jobs to share their technical expertise and communicate the value of the specific vendor’s technologies to their colleagues and to the community.
Usually the submission are annual (Microsoft MVP is quaternary, but it’s one of the exceptions) and most of them are already open for the 2015:
- VMware vExpert 2015 (next year the nomination will be semestral)
- EMC Elect 2015
- Cisco Champions 2015 (seems that the list has been announced in later 2014))
- Nutanix Technology Champion 2014 (announced on December 24th)
- Dell TechCenter Rockstars 2015 (not yet opened)
- Microsoft MVP (as written, nomitation is quaternary)