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 …

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.

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.

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 …

Hands on meetups (lectures, classes, demo talks) with free compute time sponsored by Amazon AWS. We focus on giving members the opportunity to learn and share with the rest of the programming community.

This is a group for anyone interested in Contributing to the OCP Storage Community by: - Join the OCP Storage project, read the specs, offer comments and suggestions on the specs, help shape the direction of a spec as it is developing. - Feed ideas for new projects to the incubation committee. - Test out a prototype design. - Contribute a hardware or software prototype to a project.

The SVForum Software Architecture and Platform SIG offers a forum for members to discuss and learn about new and emerging technologies in software architecture, development tools, and platforms. At the monthly meeting, there is a technical presentation involving software tools, techniques, platforms, or architecture used to capitalize on an emerging market opportunity or solve an enterprise computing problem. Software tools include emerging functional languages such as Scala or F#, HTML5 or new …

#LSPE Meet-up has been an invaluable platform for engineers responsible for the reliability, scalability and efficient operation of large scale systems! LSPE-W is a much awaited extension of #LSPE providing a collaborative network and learning platform for women in technology. Our Vision: Build a vision for women in technology, and spotlighting thought leaders within the industry Provide problem solving for issues and challenges in Highly Scalable Environments Create a platform that would allow …

Thanks for dropping by! Our group focuses on enterprise datacenter strategies including but not limited to: Cloud Computing, (Reinforcing the Open, Capable, and Affordable IT Infrastrcuture), Virtualization, Datacenter Management, Best Practices (Hardware and Software), and Innovative IT Ideas for the future!

BayLISA is the premiere system adminstration user group in Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in the very early 90s after the fourth Large Installation System Administration (LISA) conference, BayLISA has supported and educated systems, network, storage, virtualization, and other technology professionals in the Bay Area for over 20 years. We use Meetup to coordinate meeting attendance, announcements, and reminders. We have our official organizational presence on the web, inc …

You have the questions? Our Gurus have the answers! Once every month, we will have one guru, in either Big Data or Cloud domain, answer questions impromptu from attendees.  Questions can be technical ("I am trying to setup Hadoop on my laptop") or non technical ("I am trying to understand players in Hadoop world") We also have a on-going hackathon series aimed at developers who want to learn hadoop.  These are hands on sessions where attendees learn and develop a new concept.

On a Hackternoon, Mobile meets Web meets Cloud, cross platform BlackBerry Developers hack and have fun together. Use this Meetup to fill gaps in your personal tech stack. This Meetup has a strong educational focus through project deployment. We learn by watching, asking, listening, and doing. We use a combo of Paired Programming, brain power, and a project deployment to help you stay caught up.  Usually we meet at a WIFI cafe or a co-working location like Ground Floor, Hacker Dojo, or NextSpace.

This is a group for discussing Big Data Applications, Analytics, Algorithms and Architectures . This group is intended towards big data evangalists, technologists, architects, Hadoop administrators, data mining experts, data scientists, cloud experts, NoSQL , developers, consultants, and experts. The meetup will have product demonstrations, use case discussions, presentations of architectures and implementations. The locations would be in South Bay Area ( Silicon Valley)

Our mission: To offer the International mobile technology and services sector an unbiased discussion dialogue on emerging technologies. Analyze their commercial, economical, social and political impact for an audience of senior business executives, researchers, financiers, policy makers and our loyal software developers. In keeping with SVForum’s history of innovation and leadership, we have decided to commit to I.P. protocol technology and the distribution of information associated. Enabling co …

VSX 2012 was formed to provide a central point for learning and exchange of information with access to key virtualization platforms and best of breed ecosystem vendors. The conference mission is to create strong virtualization strategies for companies and improve virtualization platforms. Whether the audience is a CIO, Director of IT, or an engineer, there will be sessions of interest among the multiple technology and business tracks offered. VSX will offer clients access to key platform vendors …

This group will bring together all who work with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) or are interested in knowing more about RHEV. We will meet to discuss the roadmap, best practices, etc and overall learn and hear from each other. Raissa

svDevOps (Silicon Valley DevOps) is a group of both Dev & Ops professionals (managers, engineers & hackers) and entrepreneurs that meets roughly once per month to discuss topics related to DevOps and whatever it means. Topics that seem to interest us are: - improving the working relationship between dev & ops - constraints within operations and dev within regulated environments - helping developers get visibility into monitoring - systems life-cycle automation (the line between systems & apps …

This group is for bringing together virtual switching, software defined networking, OpenFlow, openvswitch, VXLAN professionals & entrepreneurs together. Follow us on twitter @nvirters

Learn from and meet with other developers, devops and QA professionals that use JMeter to test web apps.   JMeter User's group is an open forum where JMeter and even Selenium users from all levels (beginner, intermediate, afficianados) can interact, network and share insights and information. Topics include JMeter, Selenium, scripting, performance, load and stress testing, test-driven development, continuous integration, building automated test scripts and other topics. Feel free to request and …

The purpose of this meetup group is to discuss GlusterFS - the world's greatest, open source distributed storage system.

Data Center Technologies? Technologies Flowing Through Data Centers? How Does A Data Center Make Their Money?

Join us to learn about Hadoop and related technologies, including use cases, new features and exciting networking with other hadopp professionals. See past meetups on YDNTheater Channel on YouTube, presentation slides available on Slideshare.

Meet with other engineers responsible for the reliability, scalability and efficient operation of large scale systems. Sessions will typically involve a free technical presentation and open forum to ask questions.  Target Audience:  Engineers & Sys Admin's who are interested in topics such as scalability, monitoring, troubleshooting,  solving tough web operations issues, Unix/Linux, LAMP and automation. See a video introduction to the group here:  http://bit.ly/c59MWE Follow us on Twitter …

This group is for software engineers interested in discussing Linux related technology. Features and issues with the kernel. Techniques for development. Embedded Linux concepts. Sessions will normally involve a free technical presentation. Thanks to lewing@isc.tamu.edu and The GIMP for the Tux picture.

BAFUG ( Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group ) is a users group for Open Source Unix like operating systems, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our primary emphasis is on FreeBSD but enthuist of other Open Source Unix such as FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, NanoBSD, DragonBSD, etc. are welcome. Since BSD is the preferred base operating system for companies like Apple (Apple OS), Juniper, NetFlix and their products, BSD truly is one of the most robust and popular operating systems in the world. Companies, de …

ZooKeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services. All of these kinds of services are used in some form or another by distributed applications. This meeting is for users and developers. Discussions will be around roadmap, any issues users are having, and to help plan for the next release. Definitely come if you're a current user of ZooKeeper; or if your company has plans for a huge data store …

I am planning to form this group to have hands on all Distributed Databases technologies and build our own hadoop cluster and use various hadoop flavors including Hadoop,HDFS,Hive,Pig,HQL. Also have hands on all Nosql Technologies like Cassandra,MongoDB etc. We would also like to go over R programming tool as part of Haddop Analysis. We would like to compare Hadoop vs any Relational DB and MPP Dbs to find some of the use cases where it could really helpful . Also we would like to solve some Indu …