OpenStack is a collection of open source technology products delivering a scalable, secure, standards-based cloud computing software solution.  It is used by corporations, service providers, VARS, SMBs, researchers, and global data centers looking to deploy large-scale cloud deployments for private or public clouds leveraging the support and resulting technology of a global open source community. Join us in discussions from users perspectives on OpenStack and cloud computing in general.  Once a …

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 …

Everyone who wants an easy way to Learn about Technology, keep reading! This meetup is for Small Business Owners and other people interested in Learning about current topics and trends in the world of Information Technology (IT) for their businesses or personal lives. SMB Tech Workshop will feature a variety of events for Beginners to get their feet wet with understanding the Technology they use, could, or should be using everyday. Think of this as continuing tech education for Entrepreneurs …

Cloud Computing represents a new, better and perhaps cheaper way of delivering enterprise IT. Join our discussion on Cloud Computing and Web Services - Start up, learn, meet, collaborate and grow. Let's dig in. Amazon Web Services, Sun, 3Tera, Joyent, Nirvanix, Google, Yahoo

This group will focus on the latest server-based and cloud-based technologies such as Windows Server 2012, System Center 2012, Windows Azure IaaS and more. The format of the group will be regular meetings in Midtown Manhattan during the day where we can walk through features, discuss deployment scenarios and take part in hands-on-labs on an ongoing basis.  I'll be announcing the details on the venue at the first scheduled Meetup soon (if I haven't already!)

Fancy meeting up with other IT virtualization enthusiasts in NY & NJ to socialise and chat over a cold beer, wine or soft-drink? This is a great opportunity to meet with other virtualization enthusiasts and Data Center professionals and enjoy discussing all things virtualization, and in fact anything else that comes up in conversation… The Software Defined Data Center provides any and all IT Services to any application, on any hardware, over any transport or network protocol, to any hypervisor. …

This is a group for any professional user of Netsuite in the NYC area. Join up if you are a finance professional, sys admin, logistics, CRM, sales professional end user. Or Join up if you are curious about how this ERP and other cloud based enterprise tools can connect you to your business metrics and your customers in stronger systemic ways. We started this group so tech professionals in NYC can connect in a meaningful way. We are looking to swap ideas, scripts, code and best practice uses of t …

Calling all developers and tech enthusiasts! This group is a place for you to discuss and learn about NuoDB - a new 21st century database that scales effortlessly on the cloud without compromising SQL compliance or ACID transactions. Join us to network, learn and discuss the future of databases. Check us out at www.nuodb.com.

Do you run web sites on IIS, .NET (or Mono) and Microsoft Windows Server? Do you use Windows PowerShell to manage your Infrastructure. Do you spin up Microsoft Windows cloud instances on Windows Azure, EC2 or RackSpace? Microsoft shops that run Web Sites face the same problems with configuration management, deployment and operations as folks that run on the LAMP stack. This community will teach each other good practices with running web sites on Microsoft Windows, IIS and .NET from OS provisioni …

Are you interested in learning about Google Apps for Business? Then this is the group for you! Meetups coming up soon! Check our page for more details.

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 po …

Where PaaS meets DevOps

Client/Customer Success Management is a relatively new field tasked with serving the customers of SaaS companies. While the exact titles and responsibilities seem to vary a lot across B2B tech companies, Client Success Managers oversee client engagement, account renewals, upsells and often tech/onboarding support as well. This group is a chance for CSMs at SaaS companies in New York City to meet and learn best practices for retaining clients over the long run.

The Vertica Professionals group was created to provide a forum for those in the NYC Area to share tips, tricks and knowledge about using Vertica and it's ecosystem for analytics. We will be managing this group out of linked in -- http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4210608

Welcome techies, business people and Verizon team members... Come join us at our offices in NYC for a monthly discussion of interesting topics including subject areas like M2M, banking finance, healthcare and the Internet. Verizon has numerous ongoing projects that contribute expertise and services to the technology ecosystem. We will be partnering with our colleagues running related Meetups and are interested to act as much as a host as a presenter ! NOTE: PLEASE MAKE SURE TO PROVIDE YOUR FULL …

This group is designed to bring together the Microsoft Windows Azure development community in the NYC Metro area to talk about challenges, roadmap, what we'd like to see in future releases, and overall user experience. Please use our hashtag on Twitter to tweet about this usergroup: #NYCAZURE

For Salesforce.com Administrators, Power Users and/or developers who are interested in building knowledge of the Salesforce.com platform and related products, as well as networking with others in this emerging community.

If you are a SAP user or professional in the New York metro Area and would like to share around SAP and address business challenges, join the group! We welcome Consultants, Independent Contractors, and Business Users. Technical, Functional, ECC, BW, SCM, etc, etc. Job seekers and posters, please feel free to join and post your information in the forum.

DaniWeb, one of the world's top I.T. discussion forum communities invites all techies to join us at our HQ on Long Island on the second Wednesday of every month for pizza, refreshments, networking, movies, fun and friends. We'd like to give our fellow ITs (developers, programmers, ITs and all around geeks) a chance to see the office, meet each other and have discussions, exchange ideas, work, notes or just have fun, on us. You don't have to be a registered DaniWeb forum member to attend but we c …

All Information Architects, and those interested in learning more, at all levels, are welcome to join for meetings, discussions, learning, sharing, networking, and fun. Information Architecture Institute: www.iainstitute.org

We are a group of IT professionals who will get together for informal learning sessions and occasional webinars to share and exchange ideas on Business Infrastructure Solutions.

What is NoSQL? The definition of NoSQL varies greatly, but the NoSQL NYC Meetup will be a place to discuss any alternative databases: from large distributed key-values hashtables to document-stores.  Newbies welcome! You can also keep track of various NoSQL events in the city by following the group on Twitter:  http://twitter.com/nosqlnyc  Please let me know if I missed something. The goal of the meetup is to build a local community, so please do not join the meetup for the sole intention o …

NYC's data science community is full of brilliant, incredibly talented people. We started this group to create a central location to showcase the amazing work New York's data scientists are doing and help awesome people meet one another. This meetup aims to serve the technical community—data scientists, software engineers, hackers, and statisticians. Our events will vary from introductory to advanced, but are always intended to provide new ideas, concepts and tools to help you solve your hardest …

This group is a place for developers to learn more about the non-relational, open source, document-oriented database MongoDB. MongoDB is the leading NoSQL database and many of the key committers are based right here in New York City. So if you are facing challenges with MySQL or Postgres or Oracle and want to explore a more flexible, scalable alternative, please join us at one of our monthly sessions. We typically meet on the third Tuesday of the month, have some pizza and network, and enjoy a p …

Knowledge of and fluency in the language of analytics is becoming increasingly important in business, especially in the financial services industry. Even small process changes based on advanced analysis can result in millions of dollars in revenue gained or lost. It’s never been more important to brush up on your analytics “literacy”. This is a great place to learn and network with other professionals in analytics!

Chef-NYC is a users group for people in the New York City metropolitan area who are interested in using the opensource configuration management tool called Chef, developed by Opscode: http://www.opscode.com/ Every month, we get together to discuss Chef, Ohai, and related devops topics ... and SHARE COOKBOOKS/RECIPES! :-) Whether you're a "dev", "ops", or "other", join us!

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.

PuppetNYC is a group of system administrators that use the open source configuration management framework Puppet to manage our systems. We try to meet monthly to exchange best practices, socialize and occasionally host formal presentations. We have a mailing list here: http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-nyc