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Quarterly Wrap-ups

Cloud and data fourth-quarter 2012 analysis

Summary:

The last quarter of 2012 saw the rise of cloud-based databases, the cloud awakening of software giants such as HP, and many cloud outages that have put question marks around the use of cloud computing. Many enterprises found more IT dollars in their budgets, and they will focus on the cloud for much of that spending. And while the enterprise focused largely on private clouds, interest in public cloud computing is greater than many analysts expected. This fourth-quarter analysis discusses these trends and more.

  1. Executive summary
  2. Enterprises begin to spend real dollars on cloud computing
  3. New focus on cloud-based databases
  4. offerings from AWS
  5. The continued rise of OpenStack
  6. Competition: HP’s public OpenStack offering
  7. Amazon outages continue 
  8. Cloud prices continue to drop
  9. Big data trends in the fourth quarter
  10. EMC and VMware spin out Pivotal
  11. MongoDB continues its run
  12. Big data M&A and funding trends in the fourth quarter
  13. Big data companies to watch
  14. Key takeaways
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