You ever been like, “Man, I wish more organizations would help out non-profits” Well, guess what. Nutanix is. :)

So let’s break it down a bit! in the event that you find yourself too busy to actually click on their site and want the details!

Submission Period (October 15 – November 21, 2014)

• Anyone can nominate a non-profit to participate! To qualify, the organization must:
• Be a non-profit, non-partisan organization located in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, or the United Kingdom
• Have a currently working datacenter that could benefit from web-scale converged infrastructure
• Be able to complete and meet Environment Assessment criteria. Read the full terms & conditions

Judging Period (November 21 – December 10, 2014)

• A panel of community judges will select the top three finalists.

Voting Day (December 10, 2014)

• Watch the virtual event on December 10th to hear from the three finalists and cast your vote to determine the winner!
• Voting will be open to the public for 24 hours.

Winner Announced! (December 11, 2014)

• The Grand Prize winner will receive a Web-Scale Datacenter Makeover, implemented in 48 hours by a Nutanix team!

Prizes!

The Grand Prize Package

• NX-3350
• 3 Ultimate Software Licenses
• 3 Years of Support
• 2-Day Installation Services
• One organization will receive a 48-Hour Web-Scale Datacenter Makeover, implemented by a Nutanix team!

Two Finalist Packages

• NX-1350
• 3 Ultimate Software Licenses
• 3 Years of Support

Nominate & Get a T-Shirt!

• Exclusively for Web-Scale Wish participants

So get out there, with this last week left and sign up, nominate, win a shirt and help out a non-profit! <3

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