While there has been a lot of debate on what “open” means, what everyone in technology can agree on is that open standards are one of the key drivers of industry growth and prosperity. Open technology standards enable the profitable growth by allowing companies to share common specifications so everyone isn’t recreating the wheel. Standards are used to drive growth in every part of the tech market from IoT to smartphones to the internet and to the datacenter.

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