Hypertable is an open source project based on published best practices and our own experience in solving large-scale data-intensive tasks. Our goal is to bring the benefits of new levels of both performance and scale to many data-driven businesses who are currently limited by previous-generation platforms. Modeled after Google's well known Bigtable project, Hypertable is designed to manage the storage and processing of information on a large cluster of commodity servers, providing resilience …

Get together to share your experiences and advice as a UX designer, pick up tips, and keep current on good UX design.

Good data visualization help you to tell good stories, both in the field of business and academia. Good data visualization provide you quick insight of large data and better communicate to business people! Our goal in the group is to share the successful experience about data visualization, including both technical software and creative ideas!

A San Francisco-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. Please fill out this short survey to help determine the best date/time for most people to meet - http://bit.ly/ajK26U.

This group is for anyone interested in log management and data analysis. Developers, devops, IT, marketing, sales, anyone that deals with logs can benefit from this group as well as professionals that would use log data for analysis of business processes.   We will have lightning talks and guest speakers, including customers with real-world stories, industry luminaries and more. At heart, this is an informal, social gathering of like-minded enthusiasts that think logs are cool. Who Should Join t …

Welcome to the San Francisco Bay Area Data Warehouse Group! This is a user group to discuss and collaborate on strategies, best practices and experiences building data warehouses. This group is open for everyone interested in networking with other data warehousing professionals (architects, developers, modelers, analysts, data scientists, PMs, directors, recruiters, etc), learning the latest technologies and trends, and sharing best practices and experiences. For those interested in: Data Wareho …

Pallet is used to provision and maintain servers on cloud and virtual machine infrastructure, and aims to solve the problem of providing a consistently configured running image across a range of clouds. It is designed for use from the Clojure REPL, from clojure code, and from the command line. reuse configuration in development, testing and production. store all your configuration in a source code management system (eg. git), including role assignments. configuration is re-used by compostion; j …

Cloud Slam and UP is developed to promote collaborative analysis of the latest trends and challenges in cloud computing, looking at core process and strategies in the rapidly shifting world. We create thought provoking conference panels, workshops, and tutorials which are selected to cover a range of the hottest topics in cloud.

Identity, social networking and personalized [our] data and how it is used is one of the core issues of our time. We are taking the ideals associated with the Identity Commons, the Identity Gang, Internet Identity Workshop, and bringing them local. Speakers, events, and workshops with the leading minds in Silicon Valley. We want to keep the conversation and community growing. Topic areas will include: Personalized clouds Identity theft Identity management Social networks Privacy in a world wher …

Today is the age of Scalable Systems and Big Data. Providing a meetup where we can discuss innovation, solutions and have pub nights for drinking and socializing.

Welcome to the San Francisco Bay Area Jaspersoft User Group. The goal of this group is to get together to learn, share, and collaborate with others that are working with or want to work with the Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite, including: * JasperReports * iReport and Jaspersoft Studio * JasperReports Server * Jaspersoft ETL The members of the group will help to decide on topics for future meetings, present their experiences, and learn from each other.

SmartUps are a series of panel discussions on the latest innovations in HR and recruiting. Discuss and discover the newest tools and trends for growing your startup the smart way. HR and tech professionals and enthusiasts are welcome. Listen, participate, drink, network. Brought to you by SmartRecruiters, the free social recruiting platform and ATS.

This group covers everything related to distributed data processing and one key focus is Mesos as a platform for creating distributed systems. Topics will include ops and tools for running mesos on cloud infrastructure or in a custom data center, data processing with spark, realtime data processing with storm and how to build custom schedulers.

MESS: Media/Entertainment & Scientific Storage. This group is all about large files, big data, and workflow optimization. It's a place that peers can talk about storage challenges, discuss ways of dealing with them, and hear about the new technologies that are making a difference. Food, fun and smart storage people, all in one place.

"This group is for all IT's, engineers, and software developers, that want to know about how your environment can have the best connectivity, power, redundancy, and security in a Tier 3/raised floor data center in SF, instead of a hot room onsite that can be a potential hazard for your business because of cooling or connectivity issues.This group will be useful for many data and cloud environment needs for start-ups, mid sized, and enterprise local business" The group plans on meeting twice a mo …

Meet with other technologists, retailers, entrepreneurs and investors to share and discover the next generation of technologies to enhance retail! This group is focused primarily on technologies and technology-enabled services focused on real world retail, as well as online/offline convergence. Our members our interested in solutions like mobile payments, video analytics, big data, location based services, advertising attribution and other technology-enabled services that are radically changing …

We talk about all things DevOps. We take geek and make it sheek (sic). Our sessions are so cool, we had to call ourselves Cool Geeks. Ah, yeah... we are Silicon Valley geeks so fun is perfectly mixed with knowledge.

Sometimes you need to get together, drink beer, and talk shop.

This is a group for anyone interested in the Tomcat Container. All skills levels are welcome. I manage a Tomcat based product and started this group to meet other Tomcat enthusiasts. Looking forward to exploring Tomcat with everybody

This is a user group for Salt in the Bay Area. From SaltStack.org: Salt is an open source tool to manage your infrastructure. Easy enough to get running in minutes and fast enough to manage tens of thousands of servers (and still get a response back in seconds). Execute arbitrary shell commands or choose from dozens of pre-built modules of common (or complex) commands. Target individual servers or groups of servers based on name, defined roles, or a variety of system information such as hardware …

A collectively organized group for the San Francisco Bay Area MicroStrategy Community. We are dedicated to serving the needs of MicroStrategy Users in the San Francisco Bay Area. See our LinkedIn Group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/San-Francisco-Bay-Area-MicroStrategy-4820416?gid=4820416

Big Data Silicon Valley was created to help demystify big data, explore interesting use cases in different industries, go over some opportunities in the market and share tools that are available for your big data projects. We'll also go over what are some opportunities that startups can tap into in this industry. Why should you care: Big data will drive $120 billion of IT spending in 2013, according to Gartner. 93% of businesses feel like they're losing money by not being able to use the infor …

This group is for those interested in the power of social media and web analytics. We will be discussing best practices and challenges faced when managing the vast amount of data now available.

SF Data Engineering hosts events where the lead engineers from pre-screened companies showcase their technical challenges. ONLY ENGINEERS can attend. If you are not an engineer, please be aware that you may be removed from the group. Software engineers are presently faced with an ever-increasing amount of data as well as a plethora of options for open-source technologies to use to manage it. And the architectures required to process the data into useful information using machine learning, NLP, …

This meetup is about sharing knowledge & learning the latest developments about statistics, machine learning, math, analytics, parallel algorithms, distributed systems.

This is a group for Project Managers interested in Product development or in a career change: from Project to Product Manager. I started this group after making the change myself and realizing that there were a lot of others like me trying to do the same. So, this group is for everyone who needs help to make the move as well as learn more about how to manage product develoment. Project managers, Product managers, start-up entrepreneurs and Data analysts crowd is expected.

This is a group for anyone interested in networking with fellow Oracle ERP Users/Consultants/Architects/Management Professionals. This group will also provide networking opportunities for consulting companies and the oracle applications professionals in the bay area. Also tech talks, user experiences, latest trends in ERP will be a part of this group.

Meet other developers and ops engineers using Docker. Docker is an open-source engine for building and deploying cloud applications as standalone containers which can run on any server - from the VM on your laptop to the largest EC2 compute instance, and everything in between. Docker is a great building block for deploying web apps, database services, service-oriented architectures, and so on.