We are a fraternity envisioned by Chetan Malavia, ex-General Manager of Microsoft National Sales and Ops., to colloborate with community members with keen interest in understanding the core advantages of cloud computing and the detailed architecture of Windows/SQL Azure as a cloud platform. We welcome professionals and students to be a part of this group who are from any part of US and in particular from Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and Central Region to participate in our in-person meet ups.  O …

This group is dedicated to understanding how Cloud computing effects your organizations security plans.

The Cloud Applications for Business meetup group was established to educate end-users and IT Professionals on best-of-breed SaaS products on the market. We will provide knowledge-based presentations on various SaaS products The Cloud Applications for Business meetup group is sponsored by The Chicago Cloud Coalition, a finite group of seasoned professional service firms that have deep expertise & knowledge in best of breed Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, benefits for business, and how …

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.

Small Business Technology of Chicago is dedicated to helping small businesses, professionals, and nonprofits learn about information technology. We provide a place for you to learn about new technology, get answers to your questions, and share your experiences. And you will meet others who are interested in information technology for small business. Our presentations include information technology, cloud computing, software, disaster recovery, technology service providers, Internet marketing str …

This group is for users of Microsoft Office and other office productivity software. We will encourage one another in building skills with current software as well as examining alternatives that may be in the near or more distant future. Certainly cloud computing and mobile computing are two directions in which our explorations will lead.

Data 2.0 Chicago is the Midwest arm of the DataWeek.co and Data2Summit.com events in San Francisco. We host over 500 innovative data companies from Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce to MongoDB, Kaggle, and InfoChimps at our yearly conferences & summits. Topics cover big data, cloud data, NoSQL, API's and mashups, open data initiatives, and data platforms.   The Data 2.0 meetup group is for entrepreneurs, data scientists, investors, engineers, database admins, data architects, and professionals i …

Heroku User Groups (HUGS) are a casual gatherings of developers who are interested in learning about Heroku technologies. It provides developers an opportunity to explore Heroku (a polygot platform), as well learn how to run and scale any type of app, written in Java, Ruby, Node.js, Clojure, Python or Scala. This is a great place to meet Heroku experts and network with peer.

A group for those in Chicago who develop or implement enterprise search software. We'll discuss new search solutions, specific products (Autonomy, Endeca, Fast, Dieselpoint, Lucene, Solr, Google Search Appliance), ideas, and maybe a bit of "big data" technology like Hadoop as it relates to search. Folks into text analytics also welcome. Great for developers or academics who work in information retrieval.

The Northwest Ubuntu Linux Users Group is an open LUG of Ubuntu Linux users who meet at public venues such as coffee shops and book stores across NW Suburban Cook County. The primary purpose of this LUG is to welcome new and current Ubuntu Linux users into the Ubuntu Community to meet and network with each other, share ideas and experiences, make new connections, learn new things and discuss news, issues, topics and other information pertaining to Open Source Software and the various Distros of …

Meet others in your local area interested in PostgreSQL: The World's Most Advanced Open Source Database. Discuss this open source database and share the tips and tricks you've learned using it.

Join us if you would like to hear about upcoming Tech Talks hosted by Morningstar, Inc. in Chicago, IL.

Join us to discuss Puppet

Share and learn IT stuff in a relaxed and close to home environment: Linux, Windows, MySQL, SQL Server, scripting (Perl, Python, Shell, whatnot), network, storage, programming, Oracle, cloud computing, and whatever else. Swap and test out ideas, new (new is a relative term that is different for each individual) technologies.

Chefs getting together to cook the whole infrastructure. No chefs will be eliminated during the cook-offs.

The Chicago Virtualization Group is focused on all aspects of virtualization. Server, Desktop, Application, Network, Storage and more. The group is vendor agnostic, so we will discuss all solutions.