Why so much of Data Center News is boring, Missing Controversy

The Cannes Film Festival is known for controversy.

: argument that involves many people who strongly disagree about something : strong disagreement about something among a large group of people

Part of the reason why data center news is so boring is the lack of controversy.  As Mike Manos spoke 3 years ago at Uptime, the industry has too many donkeys which are the opposite of controversy.

This idea came to me, because one of the event folks for Gigaom reminded me in the panel discussion I am moderating is be controversial.  Why?  Because it is more interesting.

CNN posts on the 5 most controversial moments.

Cannes scandals: 5 most controversial film festival moments

By Mairi Mackay, for CNN
updated 11:51 AM EDT, Fri May 16, 2014
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  • Since its inception, Cannes has attracted protests, spats and stunts
  • CNN looks at some of the greatest scandals to have rocked the festival
  • Among them: Danish director Lars von Trier says he is a Nazi and is banned
  • '50s starlet strips on beach and photographer breaks ankle in scrum for photos

(CNN) -- Cannes has been a hotbed of controversy since the beginning. The first festival, organized by the French in 1939 as a response to the Venice Film Festival -- then a vehicle for Nazi propaganda movies -- had to be canceled after it launched on the day WWII broke out.

 

Uptime Symposium's Cancellation of My Expo pass Confuses when Offered in the Past

I have gone to Uptime Symposium from 2008 until 2011, and in 2012 I was declined a media pass.  

Thanks so much for your interest again this year in attending Symposium. We have changed our policy in regards to press passes and will be limiting them to full-time (on-staff) journalists. I apologize for the inconvenience this may provide. You can still sign up for an Expo-only pass, which is free, which will grant you access to the exhibit hall, the Modular Data Center Campus, networking receptions and some sessions.

This year I signed up for the expo and my expo pass was cancelled because of a perceived conflict of interest.  In the invitation sent to me that many of you get there is wording that says if you are sponsoring or exhibiting you cannot get a expo pass.

The Complimentary Expo Hall Pass is not available if your company is sponsoring or exhibiting at Uptime Institute Symposium 2014.

Maybe on the invitations that get sent to me I’ll see this offer is not available to GreenM3 and Dave Ohara.  

I have received an amazing amount of support from my readers congratulating me on getting blacklisted by 451 Group. Thanks.

Now when people ask me whether I go to Uptime Symposium I can say I am blacklisted which ironically makes me stand out even more.  Thanks 451 Group, I take my exclusion as a compliment to being someone who stands out from the rest.

Off to 7x24 Exchange and Data Center Dynamics to see my data center friends which includes the event staff at 7x24 and DCD.

Is Rackspace up for sale?

Gigaom’s Barb Darrow posts on the difficulties Rackspace is having and how Morgan Stanley has stepped in to help.

Ruh-roh. Rackspace brings Morgan Stanley aboard to evaluate its options

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Rackspace President Taylor Rhodes
photo: Rackspace
SUMMARY:

Faced with cut-throat pricing by cloud giants, you had to wonder how Rackspace, with its service-centric approach, could keep up.

And, Rackspace pops with news of who is looking to buy them.

Rackspace Pops On M&A Signal; AT&T, HP, Cisco Loom

By REINHARDT KRAUSE, INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

 Posted 08:25 AM ET

 

 

AT&T, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), EMC (EMC), Cisco Systems and IBM loom as possible buyers of Rackspace Hosting (RAX), whose stock jumped late Thursday after the company said it had hired Morgan Stanley to explore strategic options, including a sale or partnership.

Rackspace's stock rose 14% before the market open in the stock market today. Shares in Rackspace popped 7% on Thursday — mostly on last-minute spike — after Bloomberg reported that Rackspace made a regulatory filing. Rackspace said in the filing that "multiple parties" had approached the company about a takeover or alliance.



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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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