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.

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.

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.

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

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?

TV reporters have similar results.

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.

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.