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Blogs
Twenty years ago, if you wanted to get timely high-quality technical information, your
options were limited:
Big industry tradeshows (such as VMworld and the PASS Summit)
The latest topics on the topic
The vendor's newest class on the topic
Today, high-quality information is coming out near real time in blogs. A word of
caution, though: Information over time can become outdated, and authors of blogs are
not always good about going back and deleting or updating their information as it
becomes outdated. Therefore, always take the time to use a little common sense when
obtaining information from the Internet. You should look at the credentials of the blog's
author and when the last time the information was updated.
An example of an excellent blog that contains useful information on virtualization is
Long White Virtual Clouds: All Things VMware, Cloud, and Virtualizing Business
Critical Applications, located at
http://longwhiteclouds.com/
.
The author of this blog is
Michael Webster, one of the authors of this topic. A sample of Michael Webster's blog
is shown in
Figure A.4
.
Figure A.4
Long White Virtual Clouds: a high-quality blog on virtualization.
vLaunchPad
A useful site to know about is vLaunchPad: Your Gateway to the VMware Universe,
which is located at
http://thevpad.com/
. This website asks people each year to vote for
their favorite blogs on virtualization. Michael's Long White Virtual Cloud blog came in
#13 out of over 300 blogs. Looking at the many blogs on the vLaunchPad site can be an
excellent source of information on virtualization.
For example, here are the top five sites:
1.
Yellow-Bricks, by Duncan Epping (
http://www.yellow-bricks.com/
)
2.
virtuallyGhetto, by William Lam (
http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/
)
3.
Frank Denneman Blog (
http://frankdenneman.nl/
)
4.
Cormac Hogan (
http://cormachogan.com/
)
