Sysadmin of the Year 2006: Michael Beck

Michael Beck of Emerging Technologies Group Wins Top Honor as One of IT's Unsung Heroes; Sean Thomas of True Prism Technologies Wins First Prize.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Splunk, creators of the search engine for logs and IT data, in conjunction with SourceForge.net, Digg, NaSPA (the Network and Systems Professionals Association), LOPSA (the League of Professional System Administrators), USENIX/SAGE, and Bawls Guarana, today announced that Michael Beck of Emerging Technology Group has won the grand prize 2006 Sysadmin of the Year (SAOTY) contest. He was chosen out of nearly five thousand nominations. Michael has been awarded a $2,500 Splunk professional license, a lifetime membership to NaSPA and a trip to Washington, D.C. to attend the LISA Conference, December 3-7, 2006. Michael will be honored with a presentation at LISA on December 6.

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