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 …

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/cloudservicessig. The cost to attend is $20.00 (note if you are an SVForum member with proof of membership - it is free to attend).

How about having one group where you see your startup dreams coming true? How about meeting the Gurus/Mentors for entrepreneurship/legal/marketing/internet marketing/technology at one stop? And How about not spending a penny for all above? NOPAY is the place for you, whether you are an inventor or designer with product idea or  if you have just re-engineered some ideas and you feel you can do better with a start up or  if you are a thinker with an idea for startup or  if you are a developer/c …

Thanks for dropping by! Our group focuses on enterprise datacenter strategies including but not limited to: Cloud Computing, (Reinforcing the Open, Capable, and Affordable IT Infrastrcuture), Virtualization, Datacenter Management, Best Practices (Hardware and Software), and Innovative IT Ideas for the future!

This is a brand new meetup group.  Be one of the first to join!   We want to partner with and/or invest in companies and individuals building innovative solutions in the mobile space.   WHO ARE WE? We are LG U+ (formerly LG Telecom). We are an LG company. LG U+ is the 3rd largest mobile carrier in Korea and the first in the world to deploy LTE nationwide. WHAT IS THIS GROUP FOR? LG U+ changed its name for a good reason. We want to become a "Personal Value Provider". As a "Personal Value Provider …

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 …

There's a lot of discussion about SDN and what it means. Hype, tool, or folly. Let's get together and discuss what's real, what's necessary, and what's not.

CLINE was established to encourage and facilitate the scientific exploration of the intersection of computation, language, information, complexity, and intelligence as they are influenced by, and influence, the process of evolution. Of particular interest to this group is the development of self-evolving systems. The assumption is that apex systems evolve toward greater and greater complexity-handling capacity. Some call this "artificial intelligence," but we have trouble with the term as it …

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.

Many decades ago family therapy burst onto the mental health scene thanks to leaders in the field such as Dr. Salvador Minuchin and other greats, too many to name here. I was trained in this modality behind the one-way mirror and, over the last 20 years, have trained and supervised others in providing this amazing treatment option to kids and their families. As our evidence has grown, indicating the effectiveness of working with youth within the context of their families, more clinicians have be …