Monthly beer social for geeks and non-geeks interested in the vagaries of cloud. Based in NYC. Occasionally on the road. No presentations. No formality. Real discussion. Real beer. [Credit to: Mike McCracken for photo]

What are we? Our group is organized to start a conversation about the profound impact SaaS(Software as a Service) and Cloud Computing are having on the delivery of software, infrastructure and other things " as a service". We welcome members and companies from the New York area interested in a discussion addressing the enormous potential and challenges in the future adoption of these technologies.

If you are interested in GRID and/or CLOUD Computing, then come and join us. We can make the best progress, if we learn from each other. Let’s understand what works best, what to avoid, what pitfalls you have experienced. What are the new technologies? Who are the new Vendors? What are the large Banks doing? Is there a "niche", we can work on? What are the issues? Anyone got marketing experience - we really need you !! It's great being a geek, but better to work on something that has a use ! …

With the rapid growth of AWS (infrastructure web services platform in the cloud) among individual developers, start-ups, and companies across the U.S. and abroad, developers PLEASE JOIN a growing, dynamic community, and interact with other developers to answer questions, share ideas, and learn about new services and best practices. Also Join our active forums @ http://www.meetup.com/AWSnewyork/messages/boards/

OpenStack is a collection of open source technology products delivering a scalable, secure, standards-based cloud computing software solution.  It is used by corporations, service providers, VARS, SMBs, researchers, and global data centers looking to deploy large-scale cloud deployments for private or public clouds leveraging the support and resulting technology of a global open source community. Join us in discussions from users perspectives on OpenStack and cloud computing in general.  Once a …

What is CloudStack? Apache CloudStack (Incubating) is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable, hypervisor agnostic Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. CloudStack is used by a number of service providers to offer public cloud services, and by many companies to provide an on-premise (private) cloud offerings. Apache CloudStack is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software Foun …

This group is for those interested in the emerging field of Cloud Technologies, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise 3.0 and related fields. These include cloud-enabled databases like Couchbase Single Server CouchDB, virtualization clouds and many enterprise SaaS and PaaS services. Support for this group provided by GoChat: GroupChat, IM, VideoChat & FileSharing between visitors on your website http://www.GoChat.us FAQ: What is Enterprise 2.0? It officially means embracing Web 2.0 tools and technologies …

This group will focus on the latest server-based and cloud-based technologies such as Windows Server 2012, System Center 2012, Windows Azure IaaS and more. The format of the group will be regular meetings in Midtown Manhattan during the day where we can walk through features, discuss deployment scenarios and take part in hands-on-labs on an ongoing basis.  I'll be announcing the details on the venue at the first scheduled Meetup soon (if I haven't already!)

Everyone who wants an easy way to Learn about Technology, keep reading! This meetup is for Small Business Owners and other people interested in Learning about current topics and trends in the world of Information Technology (IT) for their businesses or personal lives. SMB Tech Workshop will feature a variety of events for Beginners to get their feet wet with understanding the Technology they use, could, or should be using everyday. Think of this as continuing tech education for Entrepreneurs …

Do you run web sites on IIS, .NET (or Mono) and Microsoft Windows Server? Do you use Windows PowerShell to manage your Infrastructure. Do you spin up Microsoft Windows cloud instances on Windows Azure, EC2 or RackSpace? Microsoft shops that run Web Sites face the same problems with configuration management, deployment and operations as folks that run on the LAMP stack. This community will teach each other good practices with running web sites on Microsoft Windows, IIS and .NET from OS provisioni …

This Group will bring software people together to share ideas and experience in the domain of Continuous Delivery. Continuous Delivery addresses the entire software delivery pipeline - from CI to testing to deployment to release - and addresses technology, process and organization. Anything within that domain will be in scope for our Group. The Group shares concerns with other Groups in NYC - DevOps, Agile,Puppet/Chef, Cloud, Selenium, etc. - and will be complementary to them. But we'll talk abo …

Bring together common interests and create stimulating dialogue. Awareness through passion of technology Anyone interested in technology and how it weaves it way into everyday life creating better quality and more purposeful embracement of new technologies. This Meetup is focusing on the following areas: Personal Clouds pClouds and the Services behind having a pCloud by Project VRM (Harvard Berkman Center & Doc Searls) Customer Commons (extension of the Internet Identity Workshop) The Personal …

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 po …

Client/Customer Success Management is a relatively new field tasked with serving the customers of SaaS companies. While the exact titles and responsibilities seem to vary a lot across B2B tech companies, Client Success Managers oversee client engagement, account renewals, upsells and often tech/onboarding support as well. This group is a chance for CSMs at SaaS companies in New York City to meet and learn best practices for retaining clients over the long run.

Where PaaS meets DevOps

Welcome techies, business people and Verizon team members... Come join us at our offices in NYC for a monthly discussion of interesting topics including subject areas like M2M, banking finance, healthcare and the Internet. Verizon has numerous ongoing projects that contribute expertise and services to the technology ecosystem. We will be partnering with our colleagues running related Meetups and are interested to act as much as a host as a presenter ! NOTE: PLEASE MAKE SURE TO PROVIDE YOUR FULL …

The purpose of the group is to support developers, designers, and other Titanium platform users with product knowledge, development skills and networking opportunities. Titanium is an open source development toolset and SDK that accelerates the development of native mobile applications for iOS, Android, BlackBerry 10, Tizen, and Windows Phone 8 (1Q13) devices. Appcelerator is the company that makes the Titanium platform and offers support, training and one of the best cloud service back-ends cal …

All Information Architects, and those interested in learning more, at all levels, are welcome to join for meetings, discussions, learning, sharing, networking, and fun. Information Architecture Institute: www.iainstitute.org

Opani is a community of data people working together to understand humanity's rising river of information.

This group is designed to bring together the Microsoft Windows Azure development community in the NYC Metro area to talk about challenges, roadmap, what we'd like to see in future releases, and overall user experience. Please use our hashtag on Twitter to tweet about this usergroup: #NYCAZURE

If you are a SAP user or professional in the New York metro Area and would like to share around SAP and address business challenges, join the group! We welcome Consultants, Independent Contractors, and Business Users. Technical, Functional, ECC, BW, SCM, etc, etc. Job seekers and posters, please feel free to join and post your information in the forum.

For Salesforce.com Administrators, Power Users and/or developers who are interested in building knowledge of the Salesforce.com platform and related products, as well as networking with others in this emerging community.

The Vertica Professionals group was created to provide a forum for those in the NYC Area to share tips, tricks and knowledge about using Vertica and it's ecosystem for analytics. We will be managing this group out of linked in -- http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4210608

NYC's data science community is full of brilliant, incredibly talented people. We started this group to create a central location to showcase the amazing work New York's data scientists are doing and help awesome people meet one another. This meetup aims to serve the technical community—data scientists, software engineers, hackers, and statisticians. Our events will vary from introductory to advanced, but are always intended to provide new ideas, concepts and tools to help you solve your hardest …

Membership is comprised of Women either in the Information Security field or wanting to enter the field. The purpose of this group is to advance women in Information Security by promoting networking, education, mentoring, resource-sharing, and opportunities. Regular workshops will be offered to bridge the gap of theory and/or minimal hands-on labs from a course you took or self-studying. You will get to learn and practice in an environment of like-minded women. Workshops will be led by SME's in …

An independent user group for Ping Identity customers and other interested parties. This group is driven by customers; supported by Ping Identity. If you are interested in federation identity, identity and access management, or Internet-scale identity, this might be the group for you.

Bitcoin!  P2P in the Cloud!  P2P anonymity!  P2P Crowdsourcing!  There's a lot of new an exciting possibilities in P2P--let's meetup and talk about them!