25% Discount for GreenM3 Readers to attend Gigaom Structure, only 100 discount tickets available

Gigaom Structure Conference “The Cloud is the Computer” is coming up on June 18-19 in SF.  The discount before June 1 is $100, but for GreenM3 readers there is a 25% discount available for 100 tickets who use the discount code here.  Below are prices with the discount.

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Why go?  Check out the speakers.

First the big ones - Google, Amazon, Microsoft in the battle for the Cloud.

Scott Guthrie
Microsoft
EVP, Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise group
Urs Hölzle
Google
SVP, Technical Infrastructure and Google Fellow
Werner Vogels
Amazon.com
CTO

Ex-Microsoft guys who I used to work with who now do lots of cloud stuff.

Bill Veghte
Hewlett-Packard
EVP and GM, Enterprise Group
Tod Nielsen
Heroku
CEO

And, the list goes on.  The event staff at GigaOm have done an amazing job getting top speakers in the Cloud industry.

James Barrese
PayPal
CTO
Andy Bechtolsheim
Arista Networks
Founder, Chief Development Officer and Chairman
Diane Bryant
Intel
SVP, GM, Data Center Group
Tamara Budec
Digital Realty
VP, Portfolio Operations
Adrian Cockcroft
Battery Ventures
Technical Fellow
Lance Crosby
SoftLayer, an IBM Company
CEO
Sumit Dhawan
VMware
SVP Product Management and GM Desktop Division
Sameer Dholakia
Citrix Systems
Group VP and GM
Bill Fathers
VMware
SVP and GM Hybrid Cloud Services
Stephen Felisan
Edmunds.com
VP, Engineering and Operations
Dan Kauffman
DARPA
Director of the Information Innovation Office
 Chris Kemp
Nebula
Founder
Vinod Khosla
Khosla Ventures
Partner
Marten Mickos
Eucalyptus Systems
CEO
Jamie Miller
GE
SVP and CIO
Jay Parikh
Facebook
VP, Infrastructure Engineering
Mitch Parker
Citrix Cloud Service
VP and GM
Taylor Rhodes
Rackspace
President
Sri Shivananda
eBay
VP of Platform Engineering
Brian Stevens
Red Hat
CTO
Jared Wray
CenturyLink Cloud
CTO of Cloud
Scott Yara
Pivotal
President and Head of Products
 
 
Disclosure I work for Gigaom Research part-time and they have created a special discount code for my readers.

Adobe's Creative Cloud Outage exposes Single Point of Failure for Creative Pros

I have a friend who worked on the Adobe Cloud at the beginning.  He left Adobe 3 years ago so he has nothing to do with the current newsworthy outage.  Although some media outlets found they could not publish the news because Adobe Creative Cloud was down.

Log-in outage hobbles Adobe's Creative Cloud

CNET-by Stephen Shankland-12 hours ago
Adobe customers couldn't log into Creative Cloud accounts and in some cases couldn't use their software. screenshot by Stephen Shankland/ ...
Adobe Creative Cloud Has Been Down for Almost 24 Hours
Mashable-18 hours ago
 
Adobe restores Creative Cloud services after extended outage ...
The Next Web-11 hours ago
 
Creative Cloud outage: Adobe ID login failures mean Daily Mails ...
International-Digital Arts Online-37 minutes ago
 
Why a Million Designers All Stopped Work
In-Depth-Daily Beast-9 hours ago
 
Adobe Creative Cloud suffering extended outage (Update ...
Blog-PCWorld (blog)-17 hours ago

Here is a post on users who lost serious money with out the outage.

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Cisco says it will Crush VMware

VMware caught a lot of companies flatfooted with the grow of server virtualization. VMware bought Nicira as part of virtualizing the network gear.  Cisco is trying not to make the mistake of not moving fast enough to head off VMware.

Business Insider reports on Cisco’s John Chambers goal to crush Vmware.

A cheerful John Chambers told Wall Street analysts on Wednesday that his plan to crush his biggest threat, a new technology led by VMware, is working well.

 

The network industry, where Cisco dominates, is at the cusp of a huge change called software-defined networking. That's where the high-end features built into expensive routers and switches are put into software that can run on cheap, commodity hardware.

The movement is being led by VMware and a startup it acquired in 2012 for $1.26 billion called Nicira. Nicra's founder more or less invented SDN.



Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/chambers-cisco-is-going-to-crush-vmware-2014-5#ixzz31mZnztaL

What Professions do you think are Honest and Have Ethics?

Gallup has a survey asking people to rate the honesty and ethical standards of professions.

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The ones that caught my eye is journalists rate low in honesty and ethical standards.

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And newspaper reporters were lower.  Could this be a factor in why it has been so hard to monetize media?  And why users think news is a commodity?

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TV reporters have similar results.

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Demo'ing Mobile Software with Samsung Devices on the Mac

If you use Samsung devices most of the software was Windows only.  I could run the Samsung Software on Windows running in Parallels.  But finally Samsung has released the Mac version of SideSync.  What’s SideSync?  It allows you to share the Mobile screen to your PC/Mac screen with keyboard and mouse control.

Originally SideSync was a Samsung PC feature, but you can now download the apps for your non-Samsung devices.

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With SideSync I can now demo mobile software with video conferencing software that shares a desktop.  This is so much easier than trying to grab screen shots or be in person with a mobile device.  My favorite video conferencing is Fuze.  Thanks to Chris Crosby.

Here is a screen shot from my Mac with the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 screen shared.

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