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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:30:01 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [nylug-announce] TOMORROW! NYLUG 10/14 Meeting: Tobias Abdon & Matt Tavis on Cloud Computing with Amazon Web Services
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REMINDER: This meeting is tomorrow, RSVP closes TOMORROW
Visit http://rsvp.nylug.org to see if RSVP is still open.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009
6:30pm-8:00 PM
IBM
590 Madison Ave, 12th Floor
corner of 57th Street

** RSVP Closes at 4:30pm the day of the meeting (sharp!) ***
Please RSVP for EVERY meeting at this time.
Register at http://rsvp.nylug.org/
Check in with photo ID at the lobby for badge.


Tobias Abdon & Matt Tavis
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Cloud Computing with Amazon Web Services

Everyone's talking about "The Cloud", but what exactly is it? Please join
us Wednesday, October 14th 2009 at 6pm for a discussion about Cloud
Computing with Amazon Web Services.

Since early 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has provided users of all
sizes with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud. With AWS
you can requisition compute power, storage, and other services-gaining
access to a suite of elastic IT infrastructure services on demand.
With AWS you have the flexibility to choose whichever development platform
or programming model makes the most sense for the problems you're trying
to solve.

The first half of the presentation will start with an overview of AWS,
exploring each individual service. Then the services will be pieced
together to show how they work together with open source projects.
After that the focus will shift to several open source projects that run
on the cloud, including Linux and Hadoop.

The second half of the presentation will be a hands on demonstration of
deploying a custom Linux server on the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
service. A simple web application will be installed on the server, which
will then be configured to auto-scale. To cap off the demonstration, a
cloud based load generation tool will be used to trigger the auto-scaling
configuration.

More Information:
* Amazon Web Services
http://aws.amazon.com/

* What is it?
http://aws.amazon.com/what-is-aws/

* Security
http://aws.amazon.com/security/

* Operating Systems
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#os

* Support Providers
http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/global-solution-providers/

About Tobias Abdon:
Tobias Abdon has a background in IT infrastructure implementation and
management. In that role his primary focus was on deploying high speed
data networks for enterprises in the US and Canada. He has moved away
from being hands on inside the datacenter, to consulting clients on how
to best leverage infrastructure based cloud computing services with
Amazon.

About Matt Tavis:
Matt Tavis is the senior technical manager for Amazon ECS web service
and Amazon Associates.

Meeting Location:
Please note that this meeting will be held at IBM, 590 Madison Ave,
12th floor, corner of 57th Street, and not at Google. This is
the building with the IBM logo on the front of the building.

Map:
http://nylug.org/mapofibm

Books!!!
Our friends at Prentice-Hall kindly provide us with review copies
of various new titles. One of these could be yours, all you have
to do is agree to review the book within a reasonable period of
time.

Swag (Give Away):
During/after the meeting... unusually terrific swag may be given
away.

Stammtisch:
After the meeting ... You may wish to join up with other NYLUGgers
over at TGI Fridays located at 677 Lexington Avenue and 56th
Street, second floor. Northeast corner.

Python Workshops/Hacking Society:
We are a group that wants to learn about Python and other things,
and hack on code. Sometimes we go out to eat afterward.

The workshops meet every other Tuesday, at the NY Public Library,
Hudson Park Branch. 66 Leroy St. NY NY from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Next meeting is October 13, expected to be followed by October 27.
See the calendar at: http://nylug.org/pythoncalendar

Please see our home page at http://www.nylug.org for the HTMLized
version of this announcement, our archives, and a lot of other good
stuff.
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