If you’re an end user or business leader, you know that IT pros wait on us hand and foot every day, so on the inaugural IT Professionals Day this September 15, let’s honor these unsung heroes of modern business by reversing roles a bit by treating them like IT royalty.

You are a lean, mean VM sprawl fighting machine. You eat network config errors for breakfast. You laugh in the face of slow SQL queries. You…are an IT pro. And as an IT pro, you bring a tremendous amount of value to your employer.

Not a day goes by that businesses and end-users don’t benefit from your contributions to all things IT. When you are not acting as the driving force behind innovation and business IT strategies, you are probably rescuing Web servers from burning buildings. Because of you, businesses are energized and end-users are more productive.