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Wind River Systems U.K. Ltd Articles
Solving Industrial IoT challenges and aiding factories of the future
As we look at digital business transformation, there are many aspects to be considered on how to improve company performance or expand into new or adjacent markets.The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), or Industry 4.0, is driving digital transformation by optimising our industrial control systems though use of intelligent decision making. Guest blog written by Alex Wilson.
Debugging VxWorks Semaphores – give them a name!
When it comes down to debugging semaphore interactions it can be a tricky problem. As when there is a deadlock or weird delay because of excessive priority inheritance, it is never just one mutex semaphore, but often the unintended interaction of several semaphores in multiple tasks. Guest blog written by Brian Kuhl.
The benefits of software-defined industrial control systems
The current ‘digital transformation’, happening in the industrial world right now, is largely driven by moving industrial control to ‘software defined’ functions, and there are many benefits to making this move. Guest blog by Jeff Gowan.
When supplier product lifecycles fight back
As a young systems engineer I was often mentored by my Chief Systems Engineer to define requirements beyond product features and consider the ‘ilities’. These ‘iliites,’ such as reliability, maintainability, and supportability define the success of the product over the entire product lifecycle. Guest blog by Kevin Konkos.
Cybersecurity: The importance of protecting data at rest with VxWorks
Cast your minds back a few months ago, Equifax had a data breach that exposed to hackers the names, social security numbers, credit card numbers, driver’s license numbers, and other sensitive personal information which resulted in a total of 145.5 million consumers impacted by this cyber security breach after the forensic investigation concluded. Guest blog written by Ka Kay Achacoso.
Is it dog food or is it fine cuisine?
Did you know, according to Wikipedia, one of the first uses in the tech industry of the term ‘Eating your own dog food’ was at Microsoft, circa 1988. Today in the industry, we’ve taken the concept and have evolved it into a new verb –‘Dogfooding’! Guest blog by Ron Breault.
Wind River Simics selected to design software to meet IoT demands
As it is constantly evolving and generating ever-increasing volumes of data, the Internet of Things (IoT) is growing in demand also, as businesses want high-speed processing technology to handle big data analytics. Guest blog by Ross Dickson.
The Industrial Internet of Things and You
Over the past two years, it is safe to say there has been a lot of attention on the internet of things (IoT). Jeff Gowan in this guest blog talks about how before coming to work at Wind River he had never even heard the term before!? Written by Jeff Gowan.
Accelerate Virtual RAN Deployments
RAN or as we know it, Radio Access Network is pretty confusing. Traditional RAN configurations are now termed ‘Distributed RAN.’ The first phase of cost optimisation through consolidation is typically called ‘Centralised RAN’ or ‘CRAN.’ Guest blog by Charlie Ashton.
FACE Exhibition and Technical Interchange Meeting
Sponsored by NAVAIR at Patuxent River the FACE Technical Interchange Meeting (TIM) yesterday saw the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) technical standard and business approach proven. Guest blog by Chip Downing.
Two network transformation awards for Wind River Titanium Cloud
Although the SDN NFV World Congress is winding down to an end, after a packed week, you could say things got quite hot in The Hague…especially for the Wind River Titanium Cloud team. Guest blog written by Charlie Ashton.
The importance of driving education and technology
Driving education is important, however the ultimate safety resolution will be the day when technology begins to save us… from ourselves. Guest blog by Marques McCammon, General Manager, Connected Vehicle Solutions at Wind River and Alex Epstein, Senior Director of Digital Strategy at the National Safety Council.
Hoping to see you in The Hague
When you look around at dinner, what do you see? Menu items such as Broodjes, Stamppot, or Stroopwafels? Is everyone around you riding a bicycle? Well if you are agreeing, chances are you are in the Netherlands for SDN NFV World Congress. Great, Wind River are there too. Guest blog by Jeff Gowan.
VNPT Technology completes NFV Proof-of-Concept
Vietnam Post and Telecommunication Industry Technology Joint Stock Company (VNPT Technology) recently completed a proof-of-concept (PoC) programme with the Wind River Titanium Cloud network virtualisation platform as part of their long-term strategy for Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV). Guest blog from Wind River.
Tackling IoT security with new Wind River services offering
The number one issue facing IoT deployments is security and it must be properly addressed before broad adoption can begin. Guest blog written Amit Ronen.
Advancing IIoT with secure device lifecycle management
Value for customers can only be generated by Industrial IoT (IIoT) if connected devices are actively monitored and managed. To ensure these devices are secure, operational, and performing at the highest possible level, device management should be designed in as part of an IoT system architecture from the start, as it is a key IoT enabler and critically important component in IoT deployments today. According to IDC, 85% of existing embed...
Demonstrating performance with an OpenStack telco cloud
Do you want to improve your OpenStack-based cloud performance by 15x? Well Charlie Ashton from Wind River has the answer here… Guest blog by Charlie Ashton.
AXON predict analytics for VxWorks enables IoT analytics
It is a strange and inaccurate question to ask; what do you want to eat yesterday? However, IoT systems are architected to often ask very similar questions by aggregating a massive amount of data in a central repository where every so often a data scientist can evaluate and perhaps realise some insights that would have been best realised and responded to at the time the events were taking place at the edge. Guest blog by Kevin Konkos.
Fostering growth and innovation with open standards
This summer Wind River was involved in the leadership of an R&D project that fell under the guidance and nurturing of CENGN, Canada’s Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks. This project brought together some of Wind River’s leading NFV and virtualisation technology, with an innovative cloud management tool from the cloud consulting and services company CloudOps. The results of this project were both eye o...
Wind River earns fourth consecutive ‘Top Workplaces’ award
For the fourth year in a row, Wind River has been recognised by the Bay Area News Group in its Top Workplaces 2017 list, an annual profile of the top 95 places to work in the greater Bay Area.