UPDATED 15:18 EDT / SEPTEMBER 14 2012

This Week in the Cloud: Hosted Dashboards, Funding and Tech Support

This past week has proven to be anything but stale with product launches, funding and a notable acquisition – a little bit of everything. The first update comes from ComodIT.

The Belgian startup launched its first product this week, a cloud management platform that goes by the name of Synapse Agent. It’s a command line for power users that’s touted as a host agonistic interface that can be used to administrate different types of public cloud instances. The code for Synapse is available in its entirety on GitHub, and we can probably expect ComodIT to release a more polished commercial version of its system in the near future.

Synapse is a centralized cloud management platform, a lot like Beetil – the New Zealand-based startup Citrix bought a few days ago. The difference is Beetil has taken this concept in a different direction with a dashboard that lets users manage internal services, ranging from collaboration to issue detection, from a single pane of glass. This evidently caught Citrix’s attention.

On the investment front, a new name was added to the Citrix Startup Accelerator Program this week. CumuLogic, a maker of an enterprise-ready PaaS for Java applications, received seed funding from the virtualization firm and will gain access to additional resources aimed at speeding up its growth.

It wasn’t disclosed how much capital was injected into CumuLogic, but the seed funding round is likely dwarfed by Zendesk’s $60 million Series D. Big name investors including Goldman Sachs, Silicon Valley Bank, Index Ventures and GGV Capital chipped in, along with the company’s existing backers.

Zendesk offers a cloud-based agent interface that makes customer support reps’ jobs a lot easier. It features an entire set of tools that simplify organization, communications and collaboration.


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