From corporate giants Amazon AWS, Google, Microsoft, VMware, NASA, to startups Heroku and Scalr... Cloud computing is changing the way we work and reshaping the way we manage and run companies. From startups to enterprises, it is disrupting the IT landscape. Come discuss how these Web services flatten the competitive landscape, and allow you and I to compete against the behemoths of Yester years.

This group is a place for developers to learn more about MongoDB, an open source, document-oriented, nosql database. 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 second or third Tuesday of the month, have some pizza and network, and enjoy a presentation on Mongo.

Meet other local current or aspiring engineering leaders who are interested in Engineering Leadership as a strategic competency. Discuss engineering leadership and its aspects: team-building, direction-setting, career planning, project experiences, education, certification, recruiting, organization structure, inter-departmental relations, etc.

The next generation mobile devices have three revolutionary movements: user-centric instead of carrier-centric, open wireless architecture and mobile cloud architecture. Mobile Cloud is different from Cloud computing, and it converges cloud computing, cloud networking, open wireless and seamless mobility into one common platform for the future User-centric (instead of Carrier-centric currently) mobile devices. The wireless transmission theory tells us that no single wireless transmission technol …

Founded in August 2005, WSO2 is a global enterprise middleware corporation with offices in USA, UK and Sri Lanka. Providing the only complete open source middleware platform, WSO2 is revolutionizing the industry by putting traditional middleware on a diet and introducing lean, powerful and flexible solutions to address the 21st century enterprise challenges.

What:  Monthly meetings with Hive contributors on relevant issues. Target Audience:  Active contributors to the Apache Hive project. Where: Rotating venues. When: Monthly, normal business hours.  

Bay Area Storm Users is a group for developers and companies using Twitter's Storm real-time data processing and DRPC framework. We get together to discuss best practices, usage patterns, and to exchange ideas. 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 with any programming language, and is a lot of …

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, i …

A Bay Area based Hadoop user group focused on helping Hadoop users share experiences, problems and solutions, as well as learn new skills for building large-scale Hadoop-based systems.

All about the new Datomic database system.

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

A group for the application of cutting-edge HPC & GPU supercomputing technology to cutting-edge business problems. With an emphasis on the useful application of supercomputing by practitioners, for practitioners. Note: We have a sister groups that meet in Boston, "HPC & GPU Supercomputing Group of Boston", Chicago, "HPC & GPU Supercomputing Group of Chicago", and New York, "HPC & GPU Supercomputing Group of New York".

Discussion of NewSQL technologies and their use cases. Technologies of interest include: Hosted: Amazon RDS, SQL Azure, Database.com, Xeround, FathomDB; Stand-alone: HadlerSocket, Akiban, Clustrix, Drizzle, GenieDB, ScalArc, CodeFutures, Schooner MySQL, Tokutek, ScaleBase, NimbusDB, Continuent, VoltDB and Translattice

This group provides a forum in Silicon Valley for discussion for NoSQL technology and solutions to common problems.

We are the organizers and attendees of Program For The Future 2008 (http://programforthefuture.org). From that conference, we have a set of initiatives and a growing community - all whose shared objective is to help bring about teamwork and massive collaboration on a global scale in order to avert planetary disaster - the vision that inspired Doug Engelbart to invent the mouse, hypertext, windowed computer interaction, multimedia, outline processing, wikis, and even more innovations the worl …

svDevOps (Silicon Valley DevOps) is a group of both Dev & Ops professionals (managers, engineers & hackers) and entrepreneurs that meets the first Tuesday of every month to discuss topics related to DevOps (whatever that 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 syst …