London :  The Tech Trailblazers Awards early bird rates closes just shy of midnight Pacific time next Monday, leaving enterprise tech startups with just a few days to make savings on their awards submissions fee. The discounted rate of $250 for the first entry and just $100 for any subsequent submissions means that entrants make attractive savings, especially when submitting multiple entries. With stacks of prizes from the $1million dollar equivalent prize fund up for grabs, a comprehensive promotion campaign by the organizers, plus judging and mentoring from the crème de la crème of the VC and technology industry, the early-bird deadline means even better ROI for entrants.

The Tech Trailblazers Awards celebrate and reward innovation in the following areas: big data, cloud, emerging markets, mobile technology, networking, IT security, data storage, sustainable IT and virtualization.

The Tech Trailblazers Awards prize fund, projected to be worth in excess of $1m, is supported by sponsors and industry partners including AfriLabs, Amoo Venture Capital Advisory, beSUCCESS, bnetTV, China AXLR8R, the Cloud Security Alliance, Computing, The Data Chain, ExecEvent, GigaOM, The Green Grid, Innovation Warehouse, Launchpad Europe, Lissted, MIT/Stanford Venture Lab, Mynewsdesk, The Next Silicon Valley, Outsource, Prezi, RealWire, Silicon Cape Initiative, StarTau, Startup America, Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), Tech in Asia, TechNode, TiE Silicon Valley, Wazoku, Ventureburn and VMware.

An exciting new prize this year for each category winner is to be nominated to attend Morgan Stanley’s invitation-only CTO Summit – a great opportunity for enterprise technology start-ups. In addition, GigaOM is offering all the early-bird entrants a chance to win a free ticket to the Structure:Europe conference.

All entrants to the Tech Trailblazers Awards get the chance to have their technology reviewed by some of the IT industry’s eminent influencers from around the world. The extensive judging panel reflects the Tech Trailblazers’ pioneering “community spirit” approach to enterprise IT awards.

For example, joining the esteemed judging panel this year is Julian Levy, Executive Director in Morgan Stanley’s Technology Business Development group. Other new faces on this year’s judging team include:

– James Governor (@Monkchips), RedMonk,

– Derrick Harris (@DerrickHarris), GigaOM,

– Todd Embley, China AXLR8R (@chinaccelerator) and

– Storage blogger Hans de LeenHeer (@Hansdeleenheer).

Source : Realwire