Brocade’s Tech Day is an annual draw for analysts in the networking space, and also an opportunity for Brocade to unveil a new product. Jason Nolet, VP of Data Center & Enterprise Network for Brocade, announced the new VDX Switch, the VDX 8770, at the company’s event earlier this week. Nolet also touched on his ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched its annual Start-Up Challenge, which will award $100,000 in combined cash and credits to the winner. This is the sixth year for the competition which recognizes promising fledgling companies that develop their products on AWS. According the official announcement, the competition is open to: Individuals or sole proprietors who are at least ...

The Everest Group and  Cloud Connect have released the results of their enterprise cloud adaption trends survey and created a handy infographic that summarizes the findings. The verdict: businesses are overwhelmingly embracing the cloud. Over 85 percent of respondents had already deployed or planned to deploy a cloud-based solution, and most had a positive attitude ...

Distributed cloud backup service provider Symform is bringing bartering to the cloud. The company is offering unlimited online capacity to customers in exchange for their excess local disk capacity. The new program, which Symform terms”Bytes or Bucks,” allows customers to pay 15 cents per GB per month for its Symform Cloud Storage Network service or provide 2 GB ...

Belgian startup ComodIT recently released Synapse Agent, a new open source tool designed to make it easier to manage different types of cloud instances. According to the company, Synapse is a “universal API for remote system administration” that lets users, mainly devops pros, manage multiple cloud hosts from one command line interface that uses a ...

Zendesk has reportedly received $60 million in new funding. It is a busy time for the enterprise cloud services provider. They just launched a major revamp of the user interface for the customer support suite. There has also been talk about European expansion plans. Redpoint Ventures led the latest round of funding that included several ...

In an ideal world, people who can’t afford to pay for Wi-Fi wouldn’t have to worry about going to Starbucks, the library and other benevolent businesses that offer free Internet connections. Instead, the haves would be willing to share with the have-nots without hesitation, even if the person on the other end is a stranger. ...

Analysis and planning tools have left the building and made their way to cloud. SAP, Adaptive Planning and GoodData all made separate announcements on this week that suggest the cloud has evolved beyond storing data and traditional business intelligence applications. Businesses want specialized reporting, planning, and analysis applications in the cloud, not general-purpose tools. SAP ...

Salesforce is entering the fast growing cloud-based synchronization and collaboration space.  Chatterbox will be the newest competitor for Box, DropBox and the dozens of other file sync services currently in the market. The announcement was made at this week’s TechCrunch Disrupt Conference in San Francisco by Salesforce.com’s CEO Marc Benioff. The announcement about the new ...

Agawi, which provides a cloud-based platform for streaming games over the Internet, announced  it will be collaborating with Microsoft to bring games to Windows. Agawi, an acronym that stands for Any Game, Anywhere, Instantly, will use Microsoft’s Azure deliver Facebook social and mid-core games, web-based MMOs and PC core games. Agawi promises it will deliver top-tier “AAA” titles, ...