Cloudflare: 150B pageviews/month, 30GB of log data/minute, and more surfers than Facebook

"It's like a giant game of Risk," Prince says as he talks about trying to put servers in Turkey, which is hard, and settling for Bulgaria, which is the gateway to the country.

5 ways to scale your mobile app like a pro from Evernote’s CTO

With apps on just about every platform, Evernote knows a thing or two about app development. Here's some wisdom from the company's CTO.

Funding Daily: Hotspots, Twitter, and fire

There wasn't a huge number of deals today, but the ones that there were, were big.

Study of 61K Amazon Web Services instances finds 23K should improve their security

A new study by by cloud optimization company Newvem checked 61,545 Amazon Web Services instances which total a yearly spend of over $157 million. The good news is that cloud users are getting much more savvy about security, utilization, and optimization.

But there's still room to improve -- a lot of room.

Mirantis takes another $10M in strategic investment for OpenStack clouds

OpenStack system integrator Mirantis has raised an additional $10 million in strategic investment to accelerate development for its Fuel product.

Panzura raises $25M to make cloud storage faster, nears profitability

Panzura, the cloud storage company, has closed a $25 million funding round. The San Jose Calif.-based company provides faster web-based services for its corporate customers than the alternative: storage devices attached to locally-hosted servers.

Amazon Web Services speeds can vary by up to 200X depending on region

"It's possible to speed up performance significantly just by picking the right regions," Shoor says. "Amazon doesn't share any of this data."

Google reduces App Engine cloud costs by up to 25% (Amazon, next move is yours)

All that's missing are the streamers, balloons, and cheesy Best Price Ev-ah signs. Because the price competition between Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Rackspace is heating up so fast, the cloud market could be a massive virtual used car lot.

French startup Weemo gets $3M to bring its video collaboration tools to the U.S. (exclusive)

Weemo's team claims its unique approach will give it an edge over the competition. The company has also developed a set of APIs, which can be leveraged by developers to add live video tools to any application.

Hotel Ninjas launches its ‘Salesforce.com for the hospitality industry’ (exclusive)

Cofounder Avi Meir said he was inspired to start the company after realizing that most hotels still relied on "expensive, outdated, server-based technology."

Google App Engine finally supports PHP, the language that runs 75% of the web

The biggest web company on the planet just added support for the most widely used programming language on the planet.

Ringadoc nabs $700K to bridge the communication gap between doctors & patients

Patients need a better way to communicate with their physicians, and Ringadoc believes it can help. Investors agree; the San Francisco-based startup added another $700,000 to its seed round today, bringing its total funding to $1.9 million.

Newvem launches new Windows Azure cloud-management tools to help enterprises act like startups

"Azure is a billion-dollar business," Laderman says. "Azure is Microsoft's best-kept secret in the enterprise."

Twitter acquires ‘big data’ and large-scale computing startup Ubalo

The startup was working on simple ways of scaling code beyond single machines. Using the Ubalo infrastructure, developers could write code for multiple machines with no additional overhead.

NetSuite buys OrderMotion to handle orders better and faster

“We focus on the order at NetSuite,” said NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson in a recent VentureBeat interview. “Order management is at the heart of our transactions.”

Cloud collective? ‘Enterprise cool kids’ Box & GoodData partner on new product

The "enterprise cool kids" are partnering up so customers can visualize relevant data to better understand the effectiveness of their teams.