Well, December is here and you know what that means... 'tis the holiday season! December is also a huge milestone in our world as it marks a full year of the ever-so-popular monthly missions here on thwack. We've given away everything from Chromebooks, a Star Wars Xbox, a couple of GoPro camer... Read More...

PHD Virtual Technologies, a pioneer in virtual backup and innovator of disaster recovery assurance solutions, announced today the opportunity to be an IT hero and win "Guaranteed Application Recovery for Life". As you know there are not many guarantees in life, and PHD hopes to change that by offer... Read More...

In honor of the back to school season, Puppet Labs has launched the Puppet Labs Workshop, a free online learning program that features short, single-topic learning modules. These modules are a great way for newbies to learn Puppet fundamentals at their own pace.... Read More...

The Open Networking Foundation (ONF), a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating the adoption of open Software-Defined Networking (SDN), today announced six judges for the open-source “OpenFlow™ Driver” competition. These judges represent a wide range of prestigious backgrounds with notable... Read More...

SolarWinds, a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today announced the launch of its Sysadmin Day Contest, in which IT pros can create memes portraying life as a sysadmin and earn a chance to a win a Microsoft Surface RT tablet with Touch Cover keyboard, Samsung Chrome... Read More...

SolarWinds, a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today announced the launch of its "Big Hairy Sweepstakes," a Facebook-based contest in which IT pros vote on four short videos of the most obnoxious help desk stories for a chance to win an enormous beastly wall cling ... Read More...

With VMworld 2013 coming up on us fast, our friends at the green machine, Veeam Software, are back again with another great Veeam drawing that could give one lucky winner the opportunity to attend the show.... Read More...

I saw this great giveaway on Veeam's site, and I wanted to share it with VMblog readers.... Read More...