It's Twelfth Night, the last day of Christmas - all the decorations are packed, cards taken down, tree outside and chopped in pieces. Time for observations on the new year.

Cunning Systems and its portfolio companies are working on some of the big themes in Rackspace CTO John Engates' list :

Big Data
Keen offers an analytics backend as a service to apps builders, to make it easier for them to analyse the data generated by the apps users.

Internet of Things
We've been working on a large scale systems architecture for embedded ARM based communications systems, using the cloud for back end data collection, processing, storage and presentation.

Disaster Recovery
Hybrid Logic has a cloud platform for hosting service providers which is self-healing, auto scaling, and supports point-in-time restoration for disaster recovery across clouds.

SSD comes to the cloud
Expect to see new components in the storage hierarchy, in addition to SSD, in 2013.

Software as a service
Musemantik's Musicflow is improving online music creation tools.

References

http://www.lightreading.com/cloud-computing/2013-predictions-rackspace/2...

http://keen.io/
http://www.hybrid-cluster.com/
http://www.musemantik.com/

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