In a new music video, “Dev City” – parodying Tyga’s club hit Rack City – two meathead programmers spread stacks of floppy disks in a club as scantily clad women in Elvis Costello glasses writhe suggestively. Just another would-be YouTube viral sensation gone wrong, right? Except that this video is officially sponsored by Nokia Developer ...

BetterCloud has raised $2.2 million in seed funding from angel investors (and CEO David Politis himself) as the developer looks to take its Google Apps security and management tools to the next level. In a larger sense, this round of funding speaks to the growing maturity of the Google Apps developer ecosystem, and to that ...

Cloud services monolith Amazon Web Services is inviting developers, CIOs and start-ups to save November 27-29th on their calendar for AWS re: Invent, a conference to be held at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. It’s the first AWS partner conference, and Amazon’s Jeff Barr gives every indication it’ll be the biggest event in the ...

Tomorrow, May 10th, HP’s OpenStack-based, hybrid-friendly, public-ready HP Converged Cloud infrastructure service opens up to the public after an extended beta period. There’s been plenty of skepticism around whether or not HP has missed the boat entirely when it comes to the cloud – but thanks to HP’s sizable consulting and services business, innovation may ...

AppFog’s Cloud Foundry-based platform-as-a-service (PaaS) is coming to OpenStack clouds in a big way, now that the developer has joined the open source cloud operating system’s community. AppFog CEO Lucas Carlson is billing the move as making PaaS a first-class citizen in the OpenStack ecosystem – and as a strike against Amazon Web Services for its unfriendly ...

From the “Somebody on the Internet said so” department: Following a blog post on Paul Thurrott’s Supersite for Windows, Microsoft Windows Azure customers are suddenly worried that Redmond has axed the “Azure” brand for its enterprise cloud services. Thurrott reported that the news came not in the form of a press release, blog entry, or ...

In an editorial for Bloomberg Businessweek, IBM supercomputer development chief Dave Turek explains how current data center density models and the explosion of big data are going to combine and completely destroy any IT organization’s operating budget – unless something in our way of thinking changes, and soon. Turek’s argument, in short, is as follows: Right ...

The Open Compute Project, the Facebook-helmed community initiative with the self-appointed mission of promoting more efficient, environmentally-friendly data center designs and architectures, used this week’s Open Compute Summit in San Antonio to launch the Open Rack specification – a standard for server rack design that promotes scalability in a way that the legacy approach can’t. The ...

Business intelligence provider Birst is looking to kickstart its business with a relatively rare Series D round of funding as it looks to accelerate its recent shift into offering its solution as SaaS. This round was led by Sequoia Capital, which has been investing heavily in big data and analytics of late. Birst is claiming ...

Quanta, a $37 billion Taiwanese data center equipment manufacturer which counts Facebook amongst its loyal  customers, used this week’s Open Compute Summit in Texas to announce that it’s launching QCT, a subsidiary to market and sell off-the-shelf networking, storage and server solutions in the United States. As you may guess from Quanta’s choice of venue, ...