With the accelerating growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), it is increasingly important to identify and implement safety-related systems for smart grids, connected vehicles, robotics, industrial control systems, smart factories, and more. And when it comes to ensuring the reliability of these can’t-fail systems, Wind River has a proven track record of success across critical infrastructure sectors. Guest blog by Chip Downing.

In a recent cartoon about software security by John Klossner, it shows a boxing ring, with assorted security software in one corner, and in the other corner was a guy wearing a shirt labelled ‘Human Error.’ This cartoon was not new, but for some reason, it touched off a reaction this time. Guest blog by Tim Radzykewycz.

As NFV deployments are started, Wind River has released and upgrade to its Titanium Server network virtualisation platform with features that streamline network operations and enable service provider efficiency. Guest blog by Charlie Ashton.

The year is drawing to a close, and it’s becoming increasingly hard to book conference rooms. Everyone is planning, estimating, strategising, agreeing to disagree, etc. So what is the answer?  Guest blog by Andreea Volosincu

The challenge in hardware consolidation for real-time embedded systems is ensuring that sub-systems don’t interfere with each other. Guest blog by Ka Kay Achacoso.

Previously the idea of a software-defined infrastructure approach driving and accelerating digital transformation in industrial automation had been mentioned and introduced. Guest blog by Gareth Noyes.

IoT botnets continue to make news, with new strains of malware infecting a range of internet-connected devices and then using those devices to participate in historically large distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Guest blog by Mychal McCabe.

Living in the bay area, I get to see plenty of technology solutions and platforms emerge almost every single month. And with IoT as the current buzzword, a lot of platforms are aimed towards it.  Guest blog by Amar Parmar.

Wind River Titanium Server network virtualisation software ensures that Dell EMC’s new NFV infrastructure platform meets the demanding reliability requirements of Communications Service Providers (CSPs).  Guest blog by Charlie Ashton.

IoT zombies are out there. There are a lot of them. We won’t be rid of them soon. They will be reaching out to your device, so it’s important to take steps now to immunise it so your device won’t suffer. Guest blog by Alex deVries and Tim Skutt.

Technological advances have already made driving safer with features like forward collision warning and automatic emergency braking. Looking ahead, perhaps by the end of the decade, new connected vehicle technology may allow millions of cars, trucks, buses and trains to talk wirelessly to each other, the roadway, traffic lights and nearby buildings, to address hazards drivers can’t even see and ultimately help avoid many crashes altogether....

Service providers, vendors and analysts from around the world went and gathered in The Netherlands to attend SDN and OpenFlow World Congress, which took place in The Hague this time. Guest blog by Charlie Ashton.

Mentioned in the last blog, this year’s SAE ASTC had the theme ‘Innovation in Propulsion Technologies and Intelligent Aircraft Systems’ and took place in Hartford, Connecticut, and was hosted by United Technologies, with further sponsorship from Boeing and TTTech. Guest blog by Alex Wilson.

  Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have always been a problem for popular hosted sites, but the ones from the last few weeks are different. Guest blog by Alex deVries and Tim Skutt.

Wind River is pleased to announce availability of the VxWorks Real Time Operating System (RTOS) client for the IBM Watson IoT platform. This is part of the IBM/Wind River collaboration to advance IoT deployments for industrial customers with new 'edge-to-cloud' recipes designed to simplify and accelerate the development of smart connected devices. This integration marks the first in a series of VxWorks clients for cloud service providers to follo...

  LG U+ Announces Commercial carrier grade network equipment by overcoming major challenges of reliability. Advancement would allow LGU+ to deploy NFV infrastructure optimised for 5G services.

Since the idea of an “IoT analytical lifecycle,” may be understood in many different ways, let’s start with a definition. Performing analytics at the data center and the cloud is well established practice, and is still quite relevant. Guest Blog by Saurabh Mishra/SAS

The collaborative way of developing software shows us that where there’s a technical challenge, there’s an open source project to tackle it. Also, where there’s an open source project, there’s a group of people supporting, contributing, extending and using it to drive innovation. By Bruce Ashfield.

What is the CONNECTED CAR of the future? What can it do?

Modern day use cases for “IoT-like” applications date back to the earliest days of manned space flight for monitoring astronaut vital signs and shuttle telemetry - mission critical data points transmitted across a dedicated network. Beyond dedicated and specialised networks, technology once leveraging PSTN has now converged on the global IP network.