Fancy meeting up with other IT virtualization enthusiasts in NY & NJ to socialise and chat over a cold beer, wine or soft-drink? This is a great opportunity to meet with other virtualization enthusiasts and Data Center professionals and enjoy discussing all things virtualization, and in fact anything else that comes up in conversation… The Software Defined Data Center provides any and all IT Services to any application, on any hardware, over any transport or network protocol, to any hypervisor. …

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 …

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 …

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!)

The Amazon Web Services User Group (Baltimore) is a group dedicated to cloud services provided by Amazon. Because we are specific to Amazon Web Services (AWS), we can go deep into some of the technical services provided by AWS and get some really great insights into how their services work. If you want to put your application in the cloud and have already chosen AWS, or if you already have applications in the AWS cloud, then this is a great group to get helpful insights and advice from other g …

OpenStack Philly meets monthly to discuss all things OpenStack. Our meetups include a variety of discussion from how to use OpenStack to how to develop new services on OpenStack and everything in between. Join us today to start learning more about OpenStack.

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.

Hey all, Paul and I are engineers working in the Philly area and we were interested in trying to get people together to talk about how different platforms, infrastructure, and networks interact and inter-relate to each other. The general idea is to get out of the "I am a {network jockey, storage jockey, developer...}" and explore how these systems inter-relate and discuss the good the bad and the ugly about those relationships.