Android Developers Welcome OpenStack

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.

Ubuntu is a rising company in OpenStack. ZDnet describes OpenStack as giving users the reassurance and flexibility of having tested and certified choices. Ubuntu is very popular on clouds as a Linux instance. Indeed, on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ubuntu is the single most popular operating system instance of all.

Now, 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.

Boris Renski, OpenStack Foundation board member told Business Insider PayPal is embracing the OpenStack virtualisation platform to virtualise 10,000 servers. PayPal is choosing OpenStack to help transform global infrastructure to an open cloud platform.

A company like must overcome its challenges to better integrate technology with new products and services that meet user needs. Organizations are hoping to have its existing customers adopt to open source and leverage its hybrid cloud technologies. VMware is now competing against OpenStack and CloudStack.

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.

Ubuntu for Android enables high-end Android handsets to run Ubuntu, the world’s favourite free PC desktop operating system. So users get the Android they know on the move, but when they connect their phone to a monitor, mouse and keyboard, it becomes a PC.

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 what PayPal and eBay's true intentions are in committing to hybrid cloud. Unfortunately for Oracle, the company appears far behind its competitors in this cloud adoption. IBM is best poised for leadership in OpenStack, surpassing even Rackspace (Rackspace and NASA are OpenStack founders.) IBM gains a real edge.