Archives 2014

Whoa whoa whoa, wait a minute. You just put out a blog post for 15% off Microsoft Exams and 25% off VMware Exams and countless OTHER forms of free training and certification and now you’re telling me we can get 50% off on VMware Certifications?!?!

Well, no.

What I am saying is that if you’re in APJ / APAC, or more specifically the following countries;

• Australia, New Zealand, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan and Korea

THEN you get 50% off Certification. Those of us in the US, Canada, LATAM and Europe… not so much. But hey, at least SOMEONE is getting a discount, right? (I wish it were me! :))

The full scoop of details can be found here at Save 50% off All VMware exams but the really important parts you can get here…

One nice thing is this is Multi-Use and Multi-Person, so if you’ve been planning to knock out your VCP-NV or update to add Cloud, you can!

• Schedule your exam between Oct 27 and Dec 19, 2014
• VCP Exams: VFVCP1450
• Advanced (VCAP) Exams: VFADV1450
• A Must-Read before taking your next #VMware VCP or VCAP Exam!!! (You must Authorize)

And there you go! Go out there and enjoy something which the rest of us cannot. :)

Whoa, wait a minute there, are you serious? Yea, After the recent debacle with not even noticing the 25% off VCP Exams Update your VCP for 25% off (Including the latest VCP-NV also!) Expires 1JAN2015 I decided to walk through a list of ‘discounted’ certifications I had published back in August… Free, discounted, and reduced Certifications and Training! and lo and behold I discovered that some of the discounts (a lot of which were set to expire in June… Had been EXTENDED!)

So taken from the Microsoft Learning Exam Discount Page: Act now to save 15% on your MCP exam

Here are the highlights!

• Register to take an MCP exam by December 31, 2014, and get 15 percent off of your exam price. This discount is available at exam providers Prometric and Pearson VUE.
• To receive your discount, when you register for your exam, simply enter the discount code 15OFF or STU15OFF at checkout.
• Browse through available exams. Note that only those which begin “70-,” “72-,” or “73-” are eligible for this discount.

• Offer available October 1, 2014?December 31, 2014, or while supplies last.

  Blah blah other details, which you can see at the Act now to save 15% on your MCP exam link. So check it out, and go pay less! :) <3

So, Corey Romero @vCommunityGuy recently put out this gem of a blog post vExpert 2015 applications are open which if you’re a previous vExpert or you think you’re the next up and coming vExpert, OR if you’d like to nominate someone you think absolutely rocks? Well, This is the post!

To sum up some of the key points from Corey’s post;

• Applications will be accepted until December 12th at midnight PST
• Applications received after the December 12th deadline will roll into the next nomination & voting process
• vExpert 2015 announcement will be on February 5th 2015.

And of course the ever so important links in the event that you don’t click on Corey’s post! :)

• 2014 vExperts: Fastrack application
• New vExperts: 2015 vExpert application
• Recommendation:  Recommend a colleague to apply for 2015 vExpert
• (They will still need to fill out the full application)

If you’re not sure whether you should be vExpert material, or what it really takes to apply… Feel free to check out my post from 2012!

The Non-definitive guide to the VMware vExpert Program, Tips, Tricks, How to become a vExpert!

So existing vExperts, go fill out your Fastrack application, new vExpert hopefuls, go get your application rocking out, and get those nominations in for the lesser known vExpert who don’t realize that they truly are a vExpert…’’

This has been out for a few months,  and chances are you probably also didn’t know about it! (I didn’t!)  So let’s get with the savings with these last two months on the books to take advantage of it!   All you have to do is register for your exam using the Discount Code: VCPRECERT25

VMware Certified Professional 5 – Data Center Virtualization

•       Exam Code: VCP550 – Request Authorization Now!
•       Exam Code: VCP510 – Request Authorization Now!

VMware Certified Professional 5 – Desktop

•       Exam code: VCP510-DT – Request Authorization Now!
•       Exam code: VCPD510 – Request Authorization Now!

VMware Certified Professional – Cloud

•       Exam Code: VCPC550 – Request Authorization Now!
•       Exam Code: VCPC510 – Request Authorization Now!
•       Exam Code: VCPVCD510 – Request Authorization Now!

VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization

•       Exam Code: VCPN610 – Request Authorization Now!

There are more details to be found here at VMware’s Blog;  Current VCPs – Save 25% off VCP Exams & Get Recertified

You heard it here first (Well, I certainly did) when I read it on Steve Kaplan’s blog Get in on the Nutanix Technical Champion (NTC) ground floor.

So here’s the gist of it.  I’m sure a lot of you are familiar with Microsoft’s MVP Program, the VMware vExpert Program, EMC Elect Program and the many other iterations of community champions who are head and shoulders doing things in their own right and often on their own time (and dime!) Well, this is Nutanix’s reach into that same atmosphere, showing that Community is King.

The official announcement of things to come are available here on the Nutanix Blog;  Announcing the Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) Program with the actual Application (quite detailed I might say) available through the online NTC Application Form.

For those who are new to Nutanix and Hyper-Converged Infrastructures… I thought through the NUMEROUS image options to depict it, and chose to go with this brief picture I heartily ‘borrowed’ from Nutanix Sr. Solutions Engineer and rockstar Derek Seaman!

I definitely encourage you to check out his blog (and there are others) to continue to get that deep dive understanding of Hyper-Convergence like infrastructures like Nutanix.   Otherwise be sure to check it out, and if you are indeed the rockstar we all know you to be, definitely be sure to get your application in! Applications are due 15NOV2014 – So time is running out! <3