NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
- Wind River introduces software platform that enables critical
infrastructure companies to cost-effectively evolve aging legacy
control systems not previously designed to support IoT.
- Based on open standards, Wind River Titanium Control on-premise
cloud-scale infrastructure virtualizes traditional physical
subsystems enabling control systems.
- With addition of platform to product portfolio, company drives
new industrial era through virtualization, real-time performance
and edge-to-cloud connectivity.
ALAMEDA, California,
March 14, 2017 /PRNewswire/
-- Wind River®, a world leader in delivering
software for the Internet of Things (IoT), is advancing Industrial
IoT (IIoT) with availability of a software virtualization platform
enabling critical infrastructure companies to cost-effectively
evolve aging legacy control systems not previously designed to
support the connected nature of IoT. Wind River Titanium Control
empowers the next generation of on-premise analytics to optimize
industrial processes.
"ARC believes the influx of new IIoT technologies now entering
the automation market has the potential to be a major disruption to
existing business models that have been relatively stable for
decades," said Harry Forbes,
research director at ARC Advisory Group, a leading technology
research firm for industry and infrastructure. "An excellent
example is Titanium Control, which combines Wind River's long
experience in real-time operating systems with on-premise cloud
computing technology. This combination enables the virtualization
of real-time automation applications that until recently could only
be implemented in embedded systems hardware. The implications of
this capability for the manufacturing automation market are very
far-reaching, and automation suppliers are noticing."
Because traditional industrial control systems were not designed
to support IoT, most are rigid, single purpose, and have a high
cost to deploy, integrate, and maintain. Additionally, the
obsolescence cycle is driving system updates that require new
systems to keep pace with innovation while maintaining or lowering
capital costs.
Titanium Control is a commercially deployable on-premise cloud
infrastructure that virtualizes traditional physical subsystems
using a platform based on open standards. It delivers the high
performance, high availability, flexibility, and low latency needed
to reduce capital and operating expenses, as well as minimize
unscheduled downtime for industrial applications and control
services at any scale. Unlike enterprise IT virtualization
platforms, it provides high reliability for applications and
services deployed at the network edge, for example in fog
deployments.
Key features of Titanium Control include:
- De facto standard open source software for on-premise cloud and
virtualization, including Linux, real-time Kernel-based Virtual
Machine (KVM) and OpenStack
- High performance and high availability with accelerated vSwitch
and inter-VM communication, plus virtual infrastructure
management
- Security features including isolation, secure boot and Trusted
Platform Module enabled through Enhanced Platform Awareness
- Scalability from two to over 100 compute nodes
- Hitless software updates and patching with no interruption to
services or applications
"With the emergence of Industrial IoT, companies are looking to
deploy next-generation open and secure control systems; Titanium
Control addresses this need, and is in active trials with customers
in industries ranging from manufacturing to energy to healthcare,"
said Jim Douglas, president of Wind
River. "Our software has been providing these companies with
powerful ways to increase efficiency and bolster safety, security,
and reliability for the last 35 years. With the addition of
Titanium Control to our product portfolio, Wind River is driving a
new industrial era through virtualization, real-time performance
and edge-to-cloud connectivity."
Titanium Control is part of the Wind River Titanium Cloud™
portfolio of virtualization products for the deployment of critical
services from operations to data center environments that require
real-time performance and continuous service availability. It is
optimized for Intel® Xeon® processors, and is
pre-validated on hardware from the leading providers of Intel-based
servers.
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About Wind River
Wind River, an Intel company (NASDAQ: INTC), is a world leader
in delivering software for the Internet of Things. The company has
been pioneering computing inside embedded devices since 1981, and
its technology is found in more than 2 billion products. Wind River
offers the industry's most comprehensive embedded software
portfolio, supported by world-class global professional services
and support and a broad partner ecosystem. Wind River delivers the
technology and expertise that enables the innovation and deployment
of safe, secure, and reliable intelligent systems. To learn more,
visit Wind River at www.windriver.com.
Wind River is a trademark or registered trademark of Wind River
Systems, Inc. and its affiliates. Other names may be the trademarks
of their respective owners.
Jessica Miller
Phone: +1-510-749-2727
Email: jessica.miller@windriver.com
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