It hopes the investment in Mirantis will help expedite OpenStack development for customers running its hardware, Jason Waxman, VP and GM for cloud platforms at Intel explained.
Bret Taylor, president and chief product officer at Salesforce, who came over in the Quip deal a couple of years ago, says working together, the two companies can streamline mobile development for customers.
"This open source effort in alignment with OpenEmbedded will drastically save development resources for customers and make it easier to expand the use of embedded Linux for solutions in networking and enterprise applications".
"It is a disquieting development for poor customers," said Mark T. Williams, a former Federal Reserve Bank examiner.
(Verizon, meanwhile, has 160 million people covered). For anyone to have LTE 4G at all is a fairly recent development for AT&T customers; it launched in five cities Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Chicago, and Atlanta in September.
Gluster founder and CTO Anand Babu Periasamy commented on the synergies of the acquisition by noting: "We believe this is a perfect combination of technologies, strategies and cultures and is a great development for our customers, employees, investors and community.
That development has implications for customers who are weighing the benefits of a data-center centric approach that virtualizes a network of physical centers to create their own elastic infrastructure.
Besides, strong presence in competitive markets requires quick development of customer-centric designs for products and services.
"Our vision sets out clearly how we will manage these new developments that improve convenience for customers, while ensuring safety remains our top priority.
The business world is rife with methodologies – for building a business, selling a product, developing technology – but Steve Blank, a Silicon Valley guru who found some real entrepreneurial success, developed a methodology for customer development.
A systemic product development process defines the key process steps in the design and development of the entire product for customers.
