Android And RedHat JDK

Red Hat and Android platforms keep getting better. Cloud companies will now adapt and interoperate with open source. Interoperability will allow organizations to build their own private clouds across the estimated multi-trillion dollar industry. AllThingsD states, " IBM's (IBM) support of OpenStack, an open source cloud infrastructure originally designed at NASA, was not unexpected. The company has been a big sponsor of the OpenStack Foundation for almost a year. " Red Hat the largest seller of Linux software, aims to triple sales to $3 billion in five years, helped by the rising popularity of cloud computing, Chief Executive Officer Jim Whitehurst said.

Google / Jacky Yap

Google chairman Eric Schmidt expects 1 billion Android devices in use by year's end, as the platform steamrolls forward at an astonishing pace according to Information Week. "We'll cross 1 billion Android devices in six to nine months," said Schmidt. (There are about 750 million Android devices out there at the moment.) "In a year or two, we'll hit two billion. And the way that's going to happen is with the debut of low-end devices from manufacturers, primarily in Asia. If low-end smartphones are inexpensive now, imagine just how inexpensive they'll be a few years from now. And that's how we're going to hit the next billion devices."

The Obama Administration announced a Big Data Initiative on March 29, 2012 with over $200 million in new spending this year to improve the tools needed to process and visualize large volumes of digital data. Research by the McKinsey Global Institute shows that big data solutions could potentially reduce administrative costs in Europe's public sector by up to 20 percent, creating the equivalent of $446 billion in new value. The savings would come from both efficiency gains and more effective collection activities for tax revenues.

OpenStack has been making significant traction with enterprise organizations for its cloud architecture. Growth opportunities for investors with enterprises adopting OpenStack would allow the companies to proposition about its service offerings. 2013 is a big year for cloud adoption. Gartner predicts that from 2013 through 2016, $677 billion will be spent on cloud services worldwide, $310 billion of which will be spent on cloud advertising.  Gartner estimates that enterprises will spend $80 billion on cloud computing by 2016.

For the first time, organizations have core open source-based technologies to build enterprise-class cloud services. Standards and open source revolutionized the Web and Linux. OpenStack will also have a tremendous impact on cloud computing. These services can be ported across hybrid cloud environments.

Real scale and impact will require all enterprises to adopt standards. Cloud organizations will have to establish standards accordingly. Without standardization, cloud organizations that have barriers will suffer. Constant innovation is critical for enterprise infrastructure functions. Building vendor relationships that support innovation will be crucial.

Mobile organizations following OpenStack enterprise companies should pay attention to company growth, innovations and cloud industry standards. OpenStack is still too nascent for an enterprise to be declared the “winner or loser” in this new cloud. Only time will tell...