A) From lean startups to established category leaders, ISVs, xSPs, cloud service providers (CSPs) need new methods, tools and marketplaces to commercialize their on demand subscription offering successfully and in a sustainable way. B) This Group is about THE MOVEMENT THAT IS TRANSFORMING HOW NEW PRODUCTS ARE BROUGHT TO MARKET C) If you are seeking to activate an innovative go-to-market model, by multiplying your commerce touchpoints - you should JOIN NOW!

Bigdata applications platform on cloud like Datameer, Karmasphere, Hadapt, Kitenga and others are providing a bog opportunity for developers with Bigdata expereince to build applications on top of same using Hadoop distribution platform like Cloudera, MapR and Hortonworks among others. SAP HANA provides a In-memomry Computing and Analytics platform that can be used to provide ondemand, realtime predictive analytics applications on Finance, Healthcare, public sector and others. lets use the foru …

The purpose of this Cloud Foundry meetup is to discuss opportunities related to Cloud Foundry & Open PaaS with a focus on building services that run on top of Cloud Foundry.

Hello! This is a group for IT and Network security professionals in the US SouthWest (CA, AZ, NV, NM, TX, UT) to network and keep apprised of current security issues, threats, solutions etc. Feel free to post educational webinars, local events or other shindigs. Please keep all discussions and meetings to IT and network security related topics.

Cloud Ninjas utilize their technical skills to masterfully create effective cloud based solutions. This group is for any Cloud Ninjas wanting to meetup in the East Bay to meet fellow ninjas and share their talents and experiences amongst one another.

There are meet-ups and there are meet-ups! So, why add another meet-up? Well, we felt that it’s time that there should be a meet-up wholly dedicated to all things around “ Big Data” & “ Cloud Computing”. Mankind has never seen so much data as it is seeing today; Big Data is a serious challenge for all businesses, small and big. Cloud Computing technologies are changing the way we conceptualize, design & develop business solutions. These two buzzwords need to lose their “buzz” status and become …

Hands on meetups (lectures, classes, demo talks) with free compute time sponsored by Amazon AWS. We focus on giving members the opportunity to learn and share with the rest of the programming community.

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 …

Cloud Computing and Virtualization are transforming the technology industry. The SVForum Cloud Computing and Virtualization SIG meets monthly to discuss the impact these new technology platforms is having on infrastructure, operations, and applications from a user and vendor perspective. For more information visit: http://www.svforum.org/cloudsig. The cost to attend is $20.00 (note: it is free to attend if you are an SVForum member with proof of membership).

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

The Silicon Valley Chapter of the Cloud Security Alliance is an organization formed to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing. The Silicon Valley Chapter of the Cloud Security Alliance is comprised of many subject matter experts from a wide variety disciplines, united in our objectives: Promote a common level of understanding between the consumers …

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.

The WebGuild holds monthly events for web professionals in Silicon Valley. If you fall into one of these groups this is the perfect forum for you. 1. User Experience - web designers, localization specialist, qa, web analytics 2. Web Applications & SaaS - developers, architects or technologists and other on the web operations side. 3. Internet Marketing - Search Engine Marketing or Search Engine Optimization, web analytics and social media Our events provide you with a forum to learn about …

This is a support group for single founder software companies. Share ideas and discuss about challenges facing single founders. According to Paul Graham, the #1 mistake that kills a startup is Single Founder http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html Have you ever noticed how few successful startups were founded by just one person? Even companies you think of as having one founder, like Oracle, usually turn out to have more. It seems unlikely this is a coincidence. What's wrong with having …

This Meetup group is dedicated to connecting professionals in Customer Success and sharing/learning best practices for this growing field. If your role touches on the success of their customers, product management, lifecycle marketing, or making your organization more customer-centric, this is the group for you. We are our customers' heroes.

VSX 2012 was formed to provide a central point for learning and exchange of information with access to key virtualization platforms and best of breed ecosystem vendors. The conference mission is to create strong virtualization strategies for companies and improve virtualization platforms. Whether the audience is a CIO, Director of IT, or an engineer, there will be sessions of interest among the multiple technology and business tracks offered. VSX will offer clients access to key platform vendors …

This is a group for anyone interested in the future of business applications on mobile devices. Mobile is the next computing platform to transform business -- and each time there has been a major platform shift in mobile, there have been huge new companies created. Whether you're an entrepreneur with the next big mobile business application idea, a CIO interested in what's possible when mobile meets business apps, or an investor in the space, this group is for you.

Data is more difficult to understand than text, let alone Big Data, and Big data is driving cloud computing now. Computation virtualization is not enough for big data, both data virtualization and communication virtualization are also necessary in order to make true Real-time Big Velocity Stream Computing happen We believe the true innovation lies on algorithmic innovation, not just hardware innovation or software innovation. Right now algorithm creation is an art instead of a science, and we f …

We love big data, analytics, innovation, and strategy. We're dedicated to smarter, more intelligent methods for using big data in analytics, social media, cloud, and business intelligence. To learn more, visit http://future-bi.tv/

This group will focus on the use of Amazon CloudSearch for the development and deployment of search applications. Presentations and discussions will cover topics such as: Set up and getting started with CloudSearch Configuring search fields Relevance tuning APIs and integration Security Working with other AWS services User cases and lessons learned This group is for anyone interested in search technology - such as search developers, web application developers, architects, IT and search applica …

This group is for professionals using Salesforce.com in some way -- as a user, an administrator, a developer or as a partner. If you have not already, please become a registered member of the salesforce.com user group community by visiting http://usergroups.salesforce.com. We strive to meet 4 times per year in or around San Jose: 2 meetings in the morning and 2 meetings in the afternoon.

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.