Google may not yet be monetizing Android but they are laying a huge platform for future growth. Microsoft built a multi billion annual business off the back of Windows. If Google can replicate their mobile success story in the browser and PC market they may well be set to take some of those billions off of Microsoft. Within a couple of years we will have Android TV’s, Phones, PCs and probably any other device that requires an OS. Android Cars anyone?
What does this mean for Enterprise?
I believe the consumer market is now a leading indicator for Enterprise IT. Google and Android are still very much on an Enterprise learning curve but they are coming and more fundamentally the principles that Google deploy (cloud with an open client platform) will prove just as important as other vendors look to mimic their offer.
IT is going to go through significant change in the next 2 – 5 years. Here are some of the trends that I think will become evident:
- The need to support multiple base operating systems. IT shops typically understand Server and Client OS and like to standardise as much as possible. Well not only will they need to add Mobile OS to the mix, they will also have to manage multiple OSs – Apple, Microsoft, Blackberry, Symbian and Android.
- They can do this however because the client and mobile platform will be relatively generic with all the intelligence located in the cloud.
- Middleware providers such as Good should earn good money in the transistion from single client OS to multiple OS and cloud. During the transition IT shops will need middleware to enforce standards.
- IT shops will need significantly less people within infrastructure and a more than likely a different supplier mix.
- I’m not sure the outsourcing model as we know it today will survive.
- Money saved on people costs and outsource arrangements will be invested in a number of different areas:
- application development that generates true value to the business.
- fund the demand for network bandwidth that will explode over the next five years
- improve front line helpdesk services
So a fascinating time is set for Enterprise IT, CIOs that can react quickly to the new IT industry will add business value and create competitive advantage, those that don’t will not only disadvantage their own career but also the business they serve.
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Android set to be 2nd largest mobile OS: what next?
by admin on September 12, 2010 in Android, Google
Google may not yet be monetizing Android but they are laying a huge platform for future growth. Microsoft built a multi billion annual business off the back of Windows. If Google can replicate their mobile success story in the browser and PC market they may well be set to take some of those billions off of Microsoft. Within a couple of years we will have Android TV’s, Phones, PCs and probably any other device that requires an OS. Android Cars anyone?
What does this mean for Enterprise?
I believe the consumer market is now a leading indicator for Enterprise IT. Google and Android are still very much on an Enterprise learning curve but they are coming and more fundamentally the principles that Google deploy (cloud with an open client platform) will prove just as important as other vendors look to mimic their offer.
IT is going to go through significant change in the next 2 – 5 years. Here are some of the trends that I think will become evident:
So a fascinating time is set for Enterprise IT, CIOs that can react quickly to the new IT industry will add business value and create competitive advantage, those that don’t will not only disadvantage their own career but also the business they serve.
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