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The fun part of every December is to look back at the year and think through all that has happened. Looking at all the ups, the downs and the unknowns can really be an eye opener to get you ready to make the resolutions and plans for the next year, because there really is no point in looking back if you don’t take the extra steps to plan forward.

My prediction record for 2012 was pretty good. I was dead on, ahead of the pack and stood alone in predicting that companies would be using the product strategy lens on APIs to drive business outcomes. I did not predict that it would result in an all out API war resulting in the mass proliferation of "walled garden strategies", but even Nostradamus didn't bat 1000.

I wanted to challenge myself this year in making a highly bold prediction that could, somehow, be more singularly unique than last year's prediction about something that was at that time so obscure as APIs. So here it is -- Big Data will find its Andy Warhol.

Recent improvements in in-memory and big data analytics technology spell benefits for those working in risk and compliance. 

Enthusiasm for big data has moved beyond a trendy catch phrase to a serious force in shaping business decisions. 

Another top day for business cloud consumers. Last week we brought you news that Amazon had cut its EC3 storage prices by 25 percent, a move that was countered by Google, which slashed its by 30 percent. Today, it’s the turn of Azure, with cuts in pricing of up to 28 percent.

There are many conflicting opinions on the current value and future viability of email in the enterprise -- some observers have gone as far as to declare email dead as a business tool, while others acknowledge its role is changing as communications technology changes, but say it still has an important place. Process/content management solutions vendor Perceptive Software subscribes to the second theory.

If you really listen when people talk, you can learn some amazing things. And in an age where chatter about the Cloud, Big Data and the shortage of Data Scientists has gone viral, there’s a quieter, compelling conversation going on. 

The next wave of computing will be about Big Data App development.

Over the past couple of days we've seen a number of new solutions and enhancements in a number of IT spaces.  With its Big Data abilities already having been extended significantly, Autonomy is now being pulled into the HP fold proper -- today it’s with HP's cloud offerings. 

Even with all the product releases around Big Data, or signs that HP is finally beginning to integrate Autonomy technology into its portfolio, one event that everyone was waiting to see, and maybe even looking for inspiration from, was the keynote speech by CEO Meg Whitman.

No matter what anyone tells you, getting started with Big Data isn’t easy.

The desire for the availability of our data is unquenchable. The technological innovation which this need inspires yields continuous development of ever evolving solutions with the express purpose of ensuring our data accessibility independent of time or place.

Mobile Internet usage has surpassed desktop usage in China, but will the mobile trend really be able to kick laptops and PCs into the dustbin of history?

The fact that IBM has just announced that it is opening a new analytics center in Columbus, Ohio is interesting in its own right -- the fact that this is the second such center in a month points to a strategy that should put IBM as the top dog in the analytics space within the time it takes one group of students to graduate.

Welcome to the November 2012 installment of our what's coming from the open source projects in the next month. If you feel that your project was left out, we invite you to email us at pr@cmswire.com to have a project representative added to the list of people we contact for updates.