Calling all Datacenter geeks. This group is interested in the best ways to utilize virtualization of all types to solve real datacenter problems. If you build 'em, you gotta manage 'em. So, we will focus on the latest and cutting edge in commercial datacenter management techniques. Our meetups will be a healthy mix of: (1) the practical solutions for issues today in VMware, Citrix, OpenStack and other platforms and, (2) the latest in cutting edge research for all the concerns and components of m …

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 …

This is a group for anyone interested in Tech Talks, Workshops, and Axcient happenings. All skill levels are welcome, and we look forward to meeting you.

This is a group for IT professionals who are interested in tailored IT solutions for accelerating the delivery, management, and protection of data. Cornerstone Technologies wanted to start a Meetup group where we can invite IT professionals to learn more about the technologies that drive our life and businesses through social events.

SF-Startup-Now is a meetup focused on bringing together the forward thinking business mentors to speed-up/accelerate the go-to-market of any start-up product or service! We have launched in SV-SF, also looking to launch in LA then NY etc... We have sponsors like Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn and Box. The sponsors will provide cash and product prizes including wireless internet, cloud storage, back office, and a host of many other business needs to go-to-market and create reven …

Hive is a scalable data warehouse infrastructure built on top of Hadoop. It provides tools to enable easy data ETL, a mechanism to put structures on the data, and the capability to querying and analysis of large data sets stored in Hadoop files. Hive defines a simple SQL-like query language, called HiveQL, that enables users familiar with SQL to query the data. At the same time, this language also allows programmers who are familiar with the MapReduce fromwork to be able to plug in their custom …

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 …

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

We love to talk about what Amazon Web Services is doing in the Bay Area & to connect on ideas, technology & passion for the cloud space. Anyone interested in some of the crazy-interesting goings on should swing by!

This is an approximately monthly meetup for people who are into drinking beer and interested in discussing the current trends in Technical Ops & DevOps. We support web-scale production infrastructure for startups or other organizations and are concerned with stuff like network monitoring systems, cloud computing, configuration management, change management, virtualization and nerf warfare with the Engineering team.

Database Meets Solid State, a Silicon Valley based community group, provides a meeting point for people interested in the intersection of flash memory and database acceleration. Use cases include: Cloud computing, Big Data, Virtualization, and Analytics. Our mission: Bring together people interested in learning, presenting, and networking with others about improving their database performance and how solid state storage makes that happen. Host for our first meeting is Skyera.  We plan to have re …

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 …

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