Cloud Centric Boston exists to encourage the exchange of knowledge amongst IT and Business Professionals around all aspects of the Cloud. The meetings will provide the opportunity for education, knowledge transfer and training through formal presentations, demonstrations and discussions that are technical as well as solution oriented. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of the technologies influencing the cloud evolution and the practicalities associated with cloud implementation and busi …

So, you've read the wiki, installed the packages, set all the flags and got past integrating keystone. Cool. Now stand up front and share with the rest of us. Lets get Openstack out from the clouds and down to earth in meetup fashion.

A group dedicated to sharing, evangelizing and promoting the next big wave in technology, Cloud based services: software (SaaS), Platform (PaaS) as-a-service etc with a focus on the end users of cloud services; specifically people who have dealt or are dealing with the move from on-premise to the cloud and either have faced or are facing issues, Business & Technical like: security, management, integration etc. How product management or IT changes when you're building or using a Cloud / SaaS prod …

Purpose? A joint effort to learn, discuss and tackle the fundamental problems and theorems of Theoretical Computer Science, including Program Synthesis, Theory of Computation (Turing 1937), Recursion Theory (Kleene), Incompleteness in Logic (Godel 1931, Rosser 1936), Paradoxes (Liar and Russell's) and any other problem related to the topics discussed on Googe Groups sci.logic If Godel, Turing and paradoxes (and even Rosser and Smullyan) turn you on, if you spend time reading about, thinking a …

A group that focuses on horizontal scalability, mostly in cloud environments, including Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platforms like OpenStack.

We are a community of people dedicated to the development of the open source sipXecs project; we're open to anyone focused on SIP and XMPP based communications solutions. If you are looking to replace your aging (IP) PBX with an all software modern communications solution that scales to mid-size and large enterprise and can be deployed in the cloud, look no further.

New IT and business challenges abound as cloud-scale computing and storage become a reality.  These challenges must be addressed by innovative, cost effective products and solutions.  SGI and Scality together address these challenges.  The solution is a high performance infrastructure for Internet applications that accommodates millions of users, tens of millions of transactions and billions of files, while providing the tools to deliver 'always on' services and ubiquitous access to data.

The Virtualization Group–Boston is a volunteer run, professional association, which exists in order to encourage an exchange of knowledge about all aspects of virtualization, green technology and cloud computing between IT Professionals. Furthermore, we will foster affiliation with similar virtualization groups located elsewhere to expand the reach of knowledge and training resources.

Sonian, Inc. started this meetup in June 2011 in order to gather a group every two months to discuss topics that involve the cloud. Discussions vary from business models of the cloud to how to leverage big data, cloud challenges and solutions, etc. Everyone is welcome to this meetup group - those who work at cloud companies, cloud users, and anyone interested in the cloud. To maintain variety, each event has different speakers or panelists. We like to have as open of a discussion as possible - a …

The Windows Server Group is a volunteer run, professional association, which exists in order to encourage an exchange of knowledge about all aspects of Windows Server Technology between IT Professionals. We help IT Managers and Administrators deploy Windows Server Technologies within the enterprise, on the internet and in the Cloud.

The Greater Boston Network Users Group, BNUG for short, provides an education and technical forum for professionals and those interested in computer networking and related technologies. We hold (free) monthly meetings on technical topics, and that provide an opportunity to meet other professionals to ask questions, get answers, share ideas and information. BNUG has been in existence since its founding in 1986. Our meetings are free and open to everyone interested in joining us. No obligation. No …

Boston Storm Users is a group for developers using or hoping to learn about Twitter's Storm real-time data processing framework. We get together to discuss best practices, to exchange ideas and to learn how to apply Storm to various engineering challenges. Storm is a distributed realtime computation system. Similar to how Hadoop provides a set of general primitives for doing batch processing, Storm provides a set of general primitives for doing realtime computation. Storm is simple, can be used …

This group is a place for developers and tech enthusiasts to learn about NuoDB - a brand new generation of operational database, architected to scale effortlessly on the cloud without compromising SQL compliance or ACID transactions. (www.nuodb.com)

Join us for our first ever NuoDB meetup in San Francisco. This secret event will be limited to the first 50 individuals who reply. Registration will be a must and details will soon follow.

Join us to learn about Oracle Big Data/NoSQL and related technologies, including use cases, new features and exciting networking with other professionals.

This group is meant to bring together Chef users, and those interested in learning more about Opscode Chef, in the Boston area. #opschefboston

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DAMA' goals are to: Help practitioners become more knowledgeable and skilled in the information and data management profession Influence practices, education and certification in the information and data management profession Support DAMA members and their organizations to address their information and data management needs Form alliances with other organizations with similar principles to strengthen the profession. The purpose of this meetup is to support these goals, and to provide networking …

A group devoted to the use and development of open source, big data, agile intelligence solutions, for the Boston Metro area.  Join our group if interested in solving real business problems utilizing open source, big data analytical solutions.

Elasticsearch is picking up steam in Bean Town. Let's share our experiences with it and strengthen the local community around it by introducing newcomers to the great features it has to offer.

For developers and analysts who are using Hadoop or would like to learn more about it. Also includes technologies built with/on top of Hadoop: Hive, Pig, HBase, etc.

Google Developers' Group Boston (formerly Boston GTUG). Bringing together experts, beginners and enthusiasts alike to meet and discuss a wide array of topics related to Google technologies and writing code that uses Google product APIs. We hold the occasional hackfest, and we get involved in Google developer challenge events. Follow us on Twitter (@BostonGDG) and add us on Google+ . Some of our talks will be posted as Hangout On Air videos to our G+ feed. We typically hold meetings in the office …

A meetup for people interested in Java and other JVM languages. These meetings are chance for Java developers to socialize and network and learn from member-led presentations. Meetings are typically held the third Tuesday of each month. Presentation volunteers are welcome -- please contact Burc Oral.

Network and meet in person with local employers and recruiters to find the job you want. Learn about local job opportunities in a casual atmosphere. Share the latest tips and techniques on interviewing and getting hired. We are a group of IT professionals who have worked for a wide variety of organizations with expertise in Information Technology (IT) fields such as software design and development, hardware, networking, web services, internet, web design, security, enterprise IT, project managem …

A quarterly meetup for those in the Boston/Cambridge area to talk about Riak, distributed systems and app development. We look at real-world scenarios that leverage Riak in production, exploring best practices, pitfalls and strategies.

http://www.entretechforum.org/ Meeting Cost: $25 public, $10 students and active military; Promotional Registrations Pre-registration now available: http://theentretechforum.camp7.org/ Meet a new network of local technology entrepreneurs. Our forum consists of moderated monthly panel discussions on emerging academic research and the commercialization of this technology. It was designed for those interested in technology innovation and marketing collaboration and networking with fellow entreprene …

This is a group for Nonprofits who are using Salesforce in the greater Boston metro area to network, share best practices, and have tasty snacks! Please join us!