Data is more difficult to understand than text, let alone Big Data, and Big data is driving cloud computing now. Computation virtualization is not enough for big data, both data virtualization and communication virtualization are also necessary in order to make true Real-time Big Velocity Stream Computing happen We believe the true innovation lies on algorithmic innovation, not just hardware innovation or software innovation. Right now algorithm creation is an art instead of a science, and we f …

The Silicon Valley Chapter of the Cloud Security Alliance is an organization formed to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing. The Silicon Valley Chapter of the Cloud Security Alliance is comprised of many subject matter experts from a wide variety disciplines, united in our objectives: Promote a common level of understanding between the consumers …

This is a group of users of the Joyent Cloud or people who are interested in leveraging the Joyent Cloud for their cloud computing needs. Anyone interested in cloud computing can join. Joyent Cloud customers will find the group particularly useful. We'll be planning events and meetups around topical themes.

Welcome to the Eucalyptus Cloud User Group! We are here to bring together developers, architects, sysadmins, devops people, enterprises, start-ups... basically anyone interested in various possibilities of private and hybrid cloud solutions. Being an Open Source IaaS cloud platform means not only open source code but also open source ideas and communication. We will organize hackathons for code and hackathons for ideas. Eucalyptus is the world's most widely deployed open source cloud computing s …

There is a huge Cloud meetup group in the valley, but there isn't one here in the city! Let's see if we can get a great group together in San Francisco to discuss Cloud and Cloud technology. Please join if you are interested in Cloud!

There are meet-ups and there are meet-ups! So, why add another meet-up? Well, we felt that it’s time that there should be a meet-up wholly dedicated to all things around “ Big Data” & “ Cloud Computing”. Mankind has never seen so much data as it is seeing today; Big Data is a serious challenge for all businesses, small and big. Cloud Computing technologies are changing the way we conceptualize, design & develop business solutions. These two buzzwords need to lose their “buzz” status and become …

This is a group looking to organize tech entrepreneurs who have an interest in leading and joining the cloud computing revolution. I started this group because I'm passionate about cloud computing, and I'm really interested in sharing and collaborating idea's with other like minded people. Let's get together and brain storm!

This is a group for folks who like to know various private and public Virtualization and CLOUD computing technologies (without any cool-aid :-)).

Cloud Strategy Generation (CSG) helps with skills, experience and frameworks needed to enable Cloud Strategy for IT Projects. At Cloud Strategy Generation we connect cloud strategy to business models, to culture, to requirements and to ever evolving technology stack of Cloud Computing. We bring together educators, researchers, pioneers in the cloud and leaders from every industry to influence the usage and design of our tools. Our experiences are enduring and transformational delivering competit …

Cloud Ninjas utilize their technical skills to masterfully create effective cloud based solutions. This group is for any Cloud Ninjas wanting to meetup in the East Bay to meet fellow ninjas and share their talents and experiences amongst one another.

A) From lean startups to established category leaders, ISVs, xSPs, cloud service providers (CSPs) need new methods, tools and marketplaces to commercialize their on demand subscription offering successfully and in a sustainable way. B) This Group is about THE MOVEMENT THAT IS TRANSFORMING HOW NEW PRODUCTS ARE BROUGHT TO MARKET C) If you are seeking to activate an innovative go-to-market model, by multiplying your commerce touchpoints - you should JOIN NOW!

The purpose of this Cloud Foundry meetup is to discuss opportunities related to Cloud Foundry & Open PaaS with a focus on building services that run on top of Cloud Foundry.

ERP (Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft, SalesForce, SAP etc) Cloud Computing is the future!!! We'll be discussing the scope of this group soon. I'm looking forward to establishing a new cloud based ERP community for those interested in Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, SalesForce, MicroSoft, Google, Workday, Netsuite and/or anything related to ERP. Contact me if you have questions I want to dedicate community based knowledge sharing, awareness and best Cloud based ERP practice of any ERP applications through case …

User Engagement Pros will be a supportive Meetup for Saas/Cloud/UX/Customer Support people who are looking to share and learn the best practices in engaging users, reducing customer support costs, limiting churn, and increasing trial to paid users. We will have top notch speakers, demos, and always have time for networking and schmoozing. Sign up and stay tuned for upcoming events coming soon!

We're interested in open source, open data, and data governance as it applies to cloud computing.

Cloud Mafia is a San Francisco based community group.  Our mission is to bring together everyone that is interested in and working in the cloud technologies. Learn, network, present and meet others in the cloud space.  We have lots of events and tech talks.  Cloud Mafia has 2300+ members, has been featured on Venture Beat and sponsored by companies like Loggly, Salesforce, dotCloud, Boundary, Mulesoft, DataWeek2.0, Swrve, Stormpath, Totango, 10Gen, AppDirect, Pager Duty, Cloudability, Gigaspaces …

This group will be a space where both security and cloud professionals can get together and discuss the burgeoning technologies and concerns around cloud computing and the new security issues it raises. We'd like to see a range of meetups from broad discussions to technical, educational meetups. Members can ask questions or suggest topics for meetups so please feel free to jump in with your ideas!

For geeks passionate about building large, scalable distributed systems in the cloud. We get together to socialize and exchange ideas and information about trends and issues related to distributed computing.

Client/Server Cloud hosts events for developers building applications in the cloud. Our goal is to have the highest quality speakers on the latest technologies such as Node.JS, NoSQL, Python, Platform as a Service etc. We will organize both formal, structured presentation-centric events along with informal gatherings to just chat.

Bigdata applications platform on cloud like Datameer, Karmasphere, Hadapt, Kitenga and others are providing a bog opportunity for developers with Bigdata expereince to build applications on top of same using Hadoop distribution platform like Cloudera, MapR and Hortonworks among others. SAP HANA provides a In-memomry Computing and Analytics platform that can be used to provide ondemand, realtime predictive analytics applications on Finance, Healthcare, public sector and others. lets use the foru …

Amazon AWS, VMware vCloud, Google, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace... Cloud computing is changing the way we work and reshaping the way we manage and run companies. From startups to enterprises, it is disrupting the IT landscape. Come join us at the Cloud Club to discuss this coming revolution, and network among experts in the field! Want to tweet about us? Use: #SFCloudClub

Group for learning more about Dimension Data Cloud platforms, service offerings and usage.  Not just a sales meeting but more how to use our products, deploy cloud solutions, thought leadership from our executive team on succeeding in the cloud among other topics.

This is the place to be for Mobile Cloud, HTML5  Android iOS WP Developers, hackers, entrepreneurs, startups, VCs! Each meeting usually consists of the following sessions: 1 Presentations. 2 Announcements. 3 Table Topics. Join group at Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1814061 FaceBook  http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=52204347917

Come meet once a month with other like-minded cloud and API hackers. Having trouble making time to finish that side-project of yours connecting Evernote to Facebook? See how much more you can get done with other developers around. Maybe you'll even meet your next co-founder. This MeetUp will occasionally have speakers from publishers of your favorite APIs, but really it's about getting together in a shared space on a consistent basis and finishing what you've let languish.

This group covers everything related to distributed data processing and one key focus is Mesos as a platform for creating distributed systems. Topics will include ops and tools for running mesos on cloud infrastructure or in a custom data center, data processing with spark, realtime data processing with storm and how to build custom schedulers.

This group is forum to gather and share experiences around Cloud Computing, especially Amazon Web Services. If you have used EC2, S3, Amazon Payments, Mechanical Turk or are interested in learning more about how others have, come join our group. Cloud Computing is changing rapidly so if you are involved in the cloud or interested in learning about how Enterprise companies are leveraging the cloud, stop on by.

"This group is for all IT's, engineers, and software developers, that want to know about how your environment can have the best connectivity, power, redundancy, and security in a Tier 3/raised floor data center in SF, instead of a hot room onsite that can be a potential hazard for your business because of cooling or connectivity issues.This group will be useful for many data and cloud environment needs for start-ups, mid sized, and enterprise local business" The group plans on meeting twice a mo …

What is CloudStack? Apache CloudStack (Incubating) is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable, hypervisor agnostic Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. CloudStack is used by a number of service providers to offer public cloud services, and by many companies to provide an on-premise (private) cloud offerings. Apache CloudStack is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software Foun …