Cloud Native Apps - SF Meetup sponsored by Bitnami!

Our San Francisco office has expanded, so we are now able to host our very own Meetups! Our focus will be on topics related to Cloud native application development: containers, clouds, microservices, CI/CD, orchestration, and other related technologies.

Stay up-to-date by becoming a member of our group today!

First Annual Meet Magento Conference in USA

This first annual Meet Magento Conference will be taking place in New York City from September 22nd to September 23rd 2014. If you are a part of the Magento Community, you won't want to miss out on this event!

• Listen to knowledgeable speakers
• Learn about hot topics: Omni Channel, Responsive, Conversion Rate, Optmization, ... And more!
• Network with Magento professionals
• Attend "Speed Dating" to find a Magento agency or vendor
• Enjoy the Opening Night Party with DJ Red Alert.

Purchase your tickets now and get a 20% discount entering our DISCOUNT CODE: Btnami20MM

Cloud Hero or Cloud Geek? Cast Your Vote By Claiming a Free T-Shirt at AWS Re:Invent

Next week, over 8,000 people will descend on the conference center at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent, Amazon's second annual conference for the Amazon Web Services Cloud. As one of the top providers of apps for the Amazon Cloud, we are excited to be exhibiting at the conference and showing off the latest features in BitNami Cloud Hosting, our service for running the BitNami library of apps on AWS.

The event is sold out, but if you're one of those lucky enough to have snagged a ticket before they sold out, stop by our booth (#631) and say hi! We have a hot-off-the-presses batch of t-shirts to give away to BitNami fans, including our popular Cloud Hero t-shirts and a new Cloud Geek version, which will be making its debut. Speaking of debuts, we will also be giving away tees with our cool new logo, which we will be revealing next week as well! We could only get so many tees over to the conference, so be sure to stop by early to claim yours.

We hope to see you there!

Join Us at the Liferay Symposium in San Francisco

Liferay, a leading open source portal, web content management and collaboration software package, is a popular application in the BitNami library and we are happy to announce that we will be participating in the upcoming Liferay Symposium on October 8th and 9th in San Francisco. If you are using Liferay or looking for a new portal solution, the Liferay Symposium provides a great opportunity to hear from industry leaders as well as learn about Liferay and get to know others in the community. Unlike many tech conferences, a complete track is dedicated to case studies, so there will be plenty of information on how people are using Liferay in the real world. One of those sessions will be led by BitNami CEO Erica Brescia, who will present on whether or not running Liferay in the cloud is right for you.

View the complete agenda and register now to make sure that you get a spot! We do have a handful of FREE passes available for BitNami users who are running Liferay. If you are interested in a free pass, send an email to info at bitnami and we will let you know if we have any more available.

To get a free installer or virtual appliance or to deploy Liferay to the cloud, visit the BitNami Liferay Stack page. We hope to see you at the conference!

Free Passes to CloudCon for BitNami Users

A couple of weeks ago, we announced our participation in the upcoming CloudCon Expo taking place in San Francisco October 1st through 3rd. In our post, we mentioned that free expo passes were available through August 15th, but those passes quickly sold out. You are not out of luck yet, though - we  have secured another batch of free passes for BitNami users! We only have a limited number of those passes available, as well as a batch of 50% off coupon codes for those who don't register in time to claim one of the free passes. As only a limited number of free and discounted passes are available, we ask that you only claim one if you are sure you will be able to attend the conference.

To get a free pass to CloudCon Expo:

1. Go to the CloudCon Expo registration page.
2. Enter the code BitNami50 to see if any free passes are still available.
3. If the above code does not work, that means that the free passes have all been claimed. Enter the code BitNami25 to see if any of the 50% discount coupons are still available.

We hope to see you at the show! If you do attend, you may want to check out BitNami CEO Erica Brescia's talk on the Dark Matter Cloud on Wednesday, October 3rd at 11 AM.

2-for-1: Join BitNami at LinuxCon and CloudOpen in San Diego

How can get you get the most bang for your conference buck? Make sure you're in San Diego at the end of this month, where the Linux Foundation is running both LinuxCon and CloudOpen and one ticket gets you into both! In addition to those two conferences, there are a ton of related events being held, including the Linux Kernel Summit, Xen Summit, Linux Plumbers and the Linux Security Summit, among others. The speaker list includes experts from Google, HP, Oracle, Canonical, OpsCode, Twitter, Facebook, Intel and OpenStack, among others. 

BitNami CEO Erica Brescia will be presenting a talk on "The Giant IT Vending Machine" at CloudOpen on Friday the 31st at 2:10pm. You can read her session abstract and view a complete schedule on the conference website.

LinuxCon and OpenCloud are both taking place August 29th - 31st at the Sheraton Hotel and Marina in San Diego. Registration is filling up quickly and the conference is just around the corner, so make sure you register soon to secure your spot!

Join us at CloudCon Expo in San Francisco

Join BitNami and other leading cloud companies, such as Rackspace, Google, Amazon and Box.net at CloudCon Expo in San Francisco from October 1st-3rd. With keynotes from Steve Wozniak, Val Bercovici (Big Data & Cloud Czar at NetAPP) and Jinesh Varia (Technology Strategist for Amazon Web Services) and talks from executives at Box.net, Intel, GE, Kaiser, Cisco and many others, this event is sure to be a success!

BitNami will be exhibiting and our CEO, Erica Brescia, will presenting at 11 AM on October 3rd on "The Dark Matter Cloud" and participating in a panel discussion on migrating applications to the cloud. In her talk, she'll discuss how cloud computing has forever changed the way that startups and internet-scale companies deploy and manage their infrastructure. One of the interesting trends we see at BitNami is that a growing number of small and medium business are also moving big chunks of their IT infrastructure to the cloud, but their decision is not driven by features traditionally associated with big deployments such as elastic compute and storage capacity or capex/opex concerns. Instead, they are leveraging open source and the automation capabilities from leading public Cloud vendors to solve down-to-earth, everyday problems while saving money in the process. 

To learn more about how the cloud is being used by enterprise organizations and small businesses alike to improve the way they do business, as well as network with industry and thought leaders who are using the cloud today, be sure to attend the CloudCon Expo. If you plan on attending, be sure to register by August 15th to save $200 or get a free expo hall pass.

 The event is taking place at the Grand Hyatt in San Francisco from October 1-3. For more information, visit: http://cloudconexpo.com/

Learn How to Run Your Favorite Apps on RHEL on the Amazon Cloud

Back in February, we announced support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) in BitNami Cloud Hosting and published several RHEL-based images (AMIs) for the Amazon Cloud in partnership with Red Hat. Next week, we are joining forces with Red Hat to present a webcast on how to get started with the BitNami RHEL-based AMIs on the Amazon Cloud. In the webcast, we will cover the benefits of deploying applications in the cloud, discuss a few real-world case studies on how others are using the cloud and show you how to use the Amazon Web Services console to launch and backup servers and more. Of course, we will also leave time to answer any of your questions related to BitNami, Amazon and RHEL in the cloud.

Date:  April 12, 2012
Time: 10 AM Pacific / 1 PM Eastern / 6 PM GMT

Sign up today for this free event!

UPDATE: This event is now available on-demand. Click here to view the recorded presentation.