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News Facts
-- With the 2009 System
Administrator of the Year nomination deadline looming in a little less
than three weeks (October 23, 2009), the pace of entries is reaching
blizzard proportions.
-- Nominations received thus far uniformly testify to the value delivered
by the sysadmin community to their organizations.
-- Without prejudging the eventual selection of winners of this year's
contest, this announcement offers snapshots of the kinds of efforts that
typify outstanding performances turned in by sysadmins everywhere.
-- Nominations range from work aboard oceanographic research vessels to
services rendered in the no less lethal shark tank of a fast-paced law
firm.
Nomination Extracts
-- "He has the weight of the company on his shoulders every day and yet he
is still alive. I cannot imagine the stress. His job never stops. He really
is the backbone of the company. Without him, we would not function."
-- "He's fun to work with and likes to play the music too loud. He's
always got your back and won't take any flack. He's a Dad, a Scoutmaster,
he knows no fear, and he's still a teen at heart."
-- "He rocks! He has a disco ball over his desk and keeps our whole
Sysadmin team groovin' to the beat."
-- "He goes above and beyond the call of duty. He not only helps us with
all our technical support in our office but he also lends a hand to our
elderly patients that might need help with their personal technical issues
without compensation. He is a good-hearted and compassionate person."
-- "The field sites love him as do his counterparts in the IT unit. His
ability to automate and leverage our management/alerting suites (Orion
[system management], BigFix) has saved us numerous man-hours and limited
black-eyes by keeping us ahead of the loop."
-- "He deals with the worst of lawyers, who range from the computer-savvy
to those who are completely technically-clueless, and with their legal
assistants, all while keeping his cool, injecting his own brand of humor
into all situations, and competently handling every situation that comes
across his desk numerous times daily... Any man who can deal with
attorneys like he does -- attorneys at their worst -- is highly deserving
of the Sysadmin of the Year award!
-- "Take two global class, nearly continuously operating oceanographic
research vessels from a premier oceanographic research institution,
sprinkle in two near-coastal research ships, add several research
laboratories worth of acoustic devices, chemistry sets, underwater robots,
remote communication equipment, internet terminals, GPS-backed network time
servers, precision laser motion sensors, a typical small-building network
infrastructure packed into standard ship pathways, magnetometers, user
laptops, distributed inventory and workflow-tracking systems, gravimeters,
old-school physical plotters required by important big-wig scientists, and
multiple vehicle information systems, let simmer over 40+ years of
continual scientific expeditions and constantly changing requirements, add
multiple months of lengthy away-time at sea, sweeten with vacation in cool
foreign ports and the hope (miniscule?) of rack-time with hot young grad
students, and you have the recipe for one of the hardest sysadmin jobs the
world has to offer."
Background and Context
-- BigFix proudly sponsors the 2009
System Administrator of the Year contest, which acknowledges the
under-recognized rock stars of information technology who are vital to the
smooth functioning of business, government and public services.
-- Sysadmins are the unsung heroes of information technology, keeping
computers up and running, defending infrastructures from malware and
hacking attacks, and helping end-users maximize their productivity.
-- The contest is also an opportunity for the sysadmin community to share
information on best practices and new ways to deliver value to their
constituencies.
-- A panel of judges including AEleen Frisch (author, "Essential System
Administration"), Doug Hughes (serial presenter and guru at many USENIX
LISA conferences), Ben Kus (founder, BigFix User Group), Thomas A.
Limoncelli (sysadmin author, http://www.everythingsysadmin.com), Johnny
Long (founder, Hackers for Charity, http://www.hackersforcharity.org/),
Ryan Russell (author, "Stealing the Network"), Robert Scoble (blogger,
http://scobleizer.com), and Amrit Williams (BigFix CTO and blogger,
http://techbuddha.wordpress.com), will weigh entrants' qualifications and
select the award winner.
-- Nominations are
open until October 23, with contest winner and runners up announced on
November 4, 2009, at the USENIX Large Installation System
Administrator (LISA) Conference at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront
Hotel.
-- This contest evaluates nominations from all commercial and government
IT organizations on an equal basis. However, prizes will be selected and
awarded in compliance with corporate and agency policies and regulations.
Supporting Quotes
Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO and System Administrator of the Year judge,
said: "Awesome. Just awesome. The nominees are simply not making it easy
for the judges to single out the most outstanding performances. At the very
least, we hope that the overall high quality of the nominations will remind
everyone of the caliber of people who keep the drives spinning, the
networks humming and the monitors shining in data centers, cubicles and
server closets everywhere."
Information Resources
-- System of the Administrator of the Year home page:
www.bigfix.com/rockstar
-- Twitter: @SysAdRockStar09
-- LinkedIn: http://tinyurl.com/saoty09-linkedin
-- Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/saoty09-facebook
-- Take it to 11 blog: http://sysadminoftheyear.wordpress.com/
-- LISA '09 Conference: http://www.usenix.org/event/lisa09/
-- USENIX: http://www.usenix.com/
-- LOPSA: http://www.lopsa.org/
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