Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group

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• Five Years of EC2 Distilled

  Wed, 20 Feb 2013, 03:00 - 06:00 in Palo Alto, United States

  Grig Gheorghiu has been Tech Ops in some capacity or another for the past 15 years, and operating on EC2 for the past 5 years.Come listen to him distill the lessons of his experience in this must-see talk for people operating in the cloud, which workloads belong in the cloud... and which don't.

• Automated Testing & Continuous Deployment for Mobile Apps with Jenkins

  Fri, 31 Aug 2012, 02:00 - 05:00 in Palo Alto, United States

  Mobile app development moves fast. The cloud offers instant and scalable infrastructure to test and deploy. To build and deliver at a pace that meets real world expectations, you need to implement a continuous build, test and deploy approach.At this meetup, Jenkins/Hudson creator, Kohsuke Kawaguchi will explain how to leverage Jenkins to set up a continuous delivery pipeline and how the cloud augments this process.

• Orchestration in the Cloud

  Wed, 9 May 2012, 02:00 - 04:00 in Palo Alto, United States

  From configuration management to service orchestration, tools are evolving rapidly to match the new requirements of the DevOps revolution. Enabling continuous integration, distillation of knowledge and reuse of best practices by enabling community developments of tools are someof the key reasons why Canonical started the Juju project. Integrating Juju service orchestration with configuration management is now made possible through the notion of subordinate charms?.Agenda

• Facebook, OPA, and DevCamp

  Sat, 3 Dec 2011, 21:00 - 23:00 in Palo Alto, United States

  Hey cloudsters,My friend Henri Binsztok (founder of the popular-among-facebook-devs OPA language) will be running a DevCamp with talks by Facebook and PlaceLoop. Here's the schedule:1:00pm - Door opens. Snacks and drinks1:15pm - Opa language crash course by Henri, original author2:00pm - Lightning talks by Facebook's Julien Verlaguet, and PlaceLoop.com's François Soulard2:30pm - 7pm - DevCamp begins.

• The Future of Cloud Storage is NAS

  Fri, 10 Jun 2011, 02:00 - 04:00 in Palo Alto, United States

  Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy, CTO and co-founder at Gluster will talk about meeting the challenge of delivering solutions with the fastest path to public and private cloud storage.Over the last decade server virtualization has advanced to become a tool for dynamically managing data center assets in the face of rapidly changing business conditions, unpredictable workloads and disaster recovery. Unfortunately, virtualization on the storage side dramatically lags that of servers.

• Cloud Computing at Yahoo! Lessons, Challenges and Futures

  Fri, 13 May 2011, 01:30 - 03:30 in Palo Alto, United States

  Todd Papaioannou, VP Cloud Architecture, is going to discuss: *Virtualization as the megatrend of this decade *The world's largest Hadoop clusters *Cloud benefits to businesses large and small *"If it's not your business to be running data centers, don't do it." *Analyzing 100 billion events per day *A future dominated by hybrid cloudsTodd Papaioannou is currently at Yahoo!, in the role of vice president of cloud architecture for the cloud platform group.

• Talk Cloudy to Me!

  Sat, 30 Apr 2011, 20:00 - 22:00 in Mountain View, United States

  This event is a collection of Cloud meetups on a Saturday afternoonWhat will PaaS look like in 3 years?Platforms-as-a-Service have come a long way since EngineYard started out. While they are maturing fast, they remain limited in giving users control. What will they look like 3 years from now? *Ezra Zygmuntowicz, VMware *Sid Anand, NetflixIs your data being stored the wrong place?

• Look Ma No Hands! Create and manage dynamic cloud infrastructures.

  Fri, 22 Apr 2011, 02:00 - 04:00 in Palo Alto, United States

  With Scalr, your website and web application can grow to millions of users with little work. Scalr will provision new servers on-the-fly to handle spikes in demand, and decommission them when no longer needed to lower cost. It will scale your database, application servers, and load balancers so you never have to.

• How to build a modern PaaS, from VMware's top PaaS engineers

  Thu, 14 Apr 2011, 02:00 - 04:00 in Palo Alto, United States

  The speakers in our meetup meeting will be: *Derek Collision: ex Chief Architect and SVP at Tibco, Technical Director at Google, Principle Engineer at VMware *Mark Lucovsky: ex MS Distinguished Engineer, Technical Director at Google, now of VMware *Ezra Zygmuntowicz: ex Founder of Engineyard, now of VMware *Mark Fisher: Engineering lead of Spring Source integration team. Author of "Spring Integration in Action

• Big Compute

  Fri, 25 Mar 2011, 02:00 - 04:00 in Mountain View, United States

  Come listen to the Zencoder team, from the 2010 Y-Combinator batch, talk about the challenges related to Big Compute: taking massive computational tasks and crunching them at dragster-like speeds.

• NoSQL Series - Part 5: Graph databases (Neo4j case study)

  Fri, 25 Feb 2011, 03:00 - 05:00 in Mountain View, United States

  Ever wondered *What is a graph database? *How is a graph database different from a key-value store, columnfamily store or a document db? *When do you want to use a graph database?Come listen to Emil Eifrem, founder of the leading graph database Neo4j talk about this new type of database, and help you get started with the Neo4j open source graph database.

• NoSQL @ Netflix : Part 1

  Fri, 18 Feb 2011, 03:00 - 05:00 in Mountain View, United States

  Come listen to Siddharth Anand, software architect at Netflix, talk about the white paper he published and in which he decribes: *What Netflix expects from a RDBMS *What Netflix can live without and hence move to NoSQL *What Netflix cannot move to NoSQL *Idiosyncrasies specific to SimpleDB *Why Netflix is considering other NoSQL alternatives like Cassandra *Some thoughts on Bi-directional Data Replication -- a pipeline Sid built at Netflix

• CloudCamp @ eBay

  Fri, 11 Feb 2011, 02:00 - 04:00 in San Jose, United States

  Hello Cloudsters,We've been organizing a CloudCamp next Thursday night at eBay North (aka PayPal HQ - map). It's shaping to be extremely interesting. Over 100 people have registered so far, & with the help of volunteer Subra K we have line-up an excellent evening of Lightning Talks and of course unconference breakout sessions driven by the participants.Here is a list of the 5 minute talks (including our very own Sebastian!

• OpenStack Meetup and Open Bar!

  Fri, 4 Feb 2011, 02:00 - 04:00 in Santa Clara, United States

  <p>Join OpenStack contributors, users, and backers to celebrate the second release of the fastest-growing open source cloud platform, code-named Bexar. &nbsp;There will be a community Meetup with speakers from 6:00 - 7:00 pm, followed by an open bar from 7:00 - 9:00 pm.</p><p

• What's new with AWS?

  Wed, 2 Feb 2011, 03:00 - 05:00 in Mountain View, United States

  <p>AWS Evangelist Jinesh Varia will be in town February 2nd, and we invited him to give us an update of the new stuff Amazon has released in the recent months. Like:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Beanstalk</li><li>SES</li><li>VM Import</li><li>Route 53</li><li>Cluster GPU</li><li>RDS Read Replicas</li></ul>And that's just the four last months!Come to this meetup if you want to get up to date on recent developments at AWS.<p>&nbsp;</p

• Structure 2010

  Wed, 23 Jun 2010, 16:00 - 18:00 in San Francisco, United States

  Dear Cloudsters,My friends at GigaOm are organizing this year's Structure conference, one of the best conferences on Cloud Computing I've been to (and I've been to a lot of them).For every ticket sold using the MPSVCCG promo code, you get $100 off and the group gets $100. Please consider supporting the meetup group this way so we can offer food and drinks at our events.Here's the conference description:Structure 2010 is back!

• Introduction to Cassandra

  Fri, 18 Jun 2010, 02:00 - 04:00 in Palo Alto, United States

  Cassandra, more than any other database, is the poster child of Cloud data stores.Come listen to Gary Dusbabek -systems architect and Cassandra committer at Rackspace- talk about the database Facebook created and gave to the Apache Foundation, now used in production at Rackspace, Digg, Reddit, and Twitter.In this session, you'll learn *Under what conditions it is better to use Cassandra over other data stores *What the data model is like (key spaces, etc

• The Fortune 100 Cloud: A Perspective from IBM's CTO Anant Jhingran

  Thu, 29 Apr 2010, 02:00 - 04:00 in Palo Alto, United States

  Amazon might be the king of infrastructure for young upstarts, but IBM & co dominate the playground in the enterprise.Come listen to IBM CTO Anant Jhingran talk about the Fortune 100 Cloud, how IBM sees the industry, and IBM's latest Cloud offering for Development and Test.Dr. Anant Jhingran is a Distinguished Engineer, VP and CTO for IBM's Information Management Division.

• Big Data Workshop [co-organized]

  Fri, 23 Apr 2010, 16:00 - 18:00 in Mountain View, United States

  A friend of mine, Jennifer Homes, is organizing a Big Data Workshop. It is $75 per seat to attend before April 16.As the internet approaches 1 trillion connected gigabytes, we’re not in Kansas anymore. The data deluge poses important questions: *How will we manage all this information? Is the relational database doomed? How will be synchronize it? Will we all need to migrate to NoSQL stores? Or will the new play along nicely with 40 years of relational history?

• Cloud Computing for a Universe of Data

  Tue, 13 Apr 2010, 02:00 - 04:00 in Mountain View, United States

  NASA is building a completely open source prototype for a Federal Cloud environment, known as NASA Nebula. It currently powers President Obama's transparency initiative, and now offers Infrastructure as a Service to the government.Come listen to Chief Architect Joshua McKenty talk about Big Data, Cloud Computing, and all the Security constraints that come with operating secret government data.

• Amazon EC2 Cloud Computing and Application Design

  Fri, 26 Feb 2010, 03:00 - 05:00 in Mountain View, United States

  --------------Abstract--------------The specifics of a cloud's computing architecture may have an impact on application design. This is particularly important in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud environments.This presentation analyzes aspects of the Amazon EC2 IaaS cloud environment that differ from a traditional datacenter and introduces general best practices for ensuring data privacy, storage persistence, and reliable DBMS backup.

• Flex on the Cloud - VMware, Livecycle and Salesforce [co-organized]

  Fri, 22 Jan 2010, 02:30 - 04:30 in Palo Alto, United States

  This meetup is co-organized with SILVAFUG: at the Hacker Dojo as usual, but at the VMware offices in Palo Alto.If Cloud Computing is going to be the future of computing infrastructure (servers, storage, and networks) then what will Cloud Applications look like ? HTML ? More important to Flex developers and startups - who is going to build them? What happens when you combine Cloud Computing and Rich Internet Application technology?

• Wine-tasting & Cloud networking

  Sat, 12 Dec 2009, 02:30 - 04:30 in Mountain View, United States

  A big thanks to Jose Zero of Intel for organizing this social event. If you would like to network among peers, demo a project you've been working on, or just drink some good wine, join us for this fun and relaxed session at the Hacker Dojo.

• Ubuntu's Vision for Cloud Computing

  Fri, 20 Nov 2009, 03:00 - 05:00 in Mountain View, United States

  Love Linux? Like Pizza? Come listen to Ken Drachnik from Canonical present Ubuntu Linux's vision for Cloud Computing, with the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, around good pizza and drinks. Please note that tonight's meetup location has been changed from the Moscone in SF to the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View.

• VMware vs the Cloud

  Wed, 18 Nov 2009, 03:00 - 05:00 in San Francisco, United States

  Come listen to Andrew Rondeau compare the advantages of virtualization alone through VMware, and those of the Cloud. As a bonus, attendees get an invite to Andrew's stealth startup, ObjectCloud.

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