AHUG: Comparing HDFS Alternatives

Formerly known as AHUG (http://austinhug.blogspot.com/), this will be the first meetup organized from our new home on meetup.com.

This first meetup will be about alternatives to HDFS. The two which will be presented - GlusterFS and CassandraFS - are developed by folks based right here in Austin. So come on down and support Hadoop development and research in your very own tech community.

Food, drinks will be provided. The event will be @ Infochimps offices.

Agenda:
6:30 - Welcome: Eat, Drink, Mingle
7:00 - CFS: Cassandra-backed storage for Hadoop, by Nick Bailey of DataStax
7:30 - Implementing Hadoop on top of GlusterFS, by Brad Childs of RedHat
8:00 - Q&A

About Nick: Nick is a software engineer at DataStax where he primarily works on the OpsCenter product while occasionally submitting patches to Cassandra. Previously, he worked with Cassandra, Hadoop, and similar technologies at Rackspace Hosting.

About Brad: Brad is an austin based design enthusiast and software developer who's worked for special project teams at IBM and now Red Hat. While at IBM, he created the JavaScript tooling for Eclipse and later help create open source/open standard web and mobile tooling (www.maqetta.org (http://www.maqetta.org/)). His focus at Red Hat is around Hadoop and large-scale storage.

IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT LOCATION:
Google Maps pins Infochimps at the wrong end of the building. The building entrance is on the west end of Julian Gold department store, located off Winflo Dr. Head westbound on West 6th street, past Z-Tejas & Sweetish Hill. Go past Julian Gold, ArtWorks and House & Earth stores, turning right on Winflo Drive. Street parking is free. Walk up the long driveway entrance of the "West End Center," located on Winflo Dr. The Meetup will be held in the garage area.