Chicago Cloud Meetup
Hosted by The Chicago Cloud Computing Meetup Group
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October Meetup Topic: "The Business Benefits of Google Apps"
Learn about the Google Apps platform and how the platform is a low
risk, high reward first step into the cloud for small to medium businesses.
Topics covered include:
- Problems with current software and infrastructure
- How the Google Apps platform is positioned to eliminate these issues
- Components of the Google Apps platform
- How the platform tackles information overload, collaboration and business liberation
- Case studies and business examples of companies using Google Apps
Discussion leader: Joe Pusateri, Technical Director of Google Apps at Cloudbakers
Joe has been working with information technology from a multitude of perspectives during his career. He is driven by a need to find a way to make technology work for his customers through integration and automation. Joe’s passion to match the right solution to a need, along with a rich array of programming, IT administration, instructional, business and management skills has led him to step out of the traditional developer/architect role and join Cloudbakers to enable companies to move into the Google cloud. Joe is one of the first Google Apps Certified Deployment Specialists worldwide. Joe made the transition from standalone PC to client/server development and quickly embraced Java. As a developer, trainer and architect, he has worked with a wide array of business needs and technical solutions, his role typically being to find and then create the right combination of tools and technologies to meet the need. With the advent of cloud-based computing, Joe quickly started working in MapReduce development and with other cloud-based tools. Joe’s experience as a network administrator and an Identity Management expert in several IdM tools, gives him a broad set of skills with back-end systems and methodologies. Joe is a graduate of the Illinois Institute of Technology and holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. He loves to read, study and spend time at home with his wife and kids.
Join us on 10/25!
