This week, the world had a first view of the ground-breaking discoveries brought forth by Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) – an international scientific collaboration aiming to create a virtual Earth-sized telescope. The images of the event horizon of a black hole were constructed from data gathered by observatories all over the globe. Guest article written by Andreea Volosincu, Wind River.

While the security of Automated Teller Machines is not necessarily ‘life critical’ as with many other industries (think transportation, medical and some industrial applications), there are certainly financial and identity theft risks associated with these devices. There is much data on the web regarding the various ATM attack vectors, the estimated number of annual hacks and the cost to the industry. Guest blog by Rick Anderson,...

IoT software provider for critical infrastructure, Wind River, has announced that satellite startup Astranis Space Technologies is using VxWorks real-time operating system for its next generation satellite that will deliver cost-effective high-speed internet to underserved markets.

Nearly four decades ago VxWorks revolutionised the RTOS market by enabling a hardware board to connect to a Unix workstation dramatically changing the edit/compile/debug paradigm. This revolution was so disruptive that within ten years many established competitors went out of business or were acquired as a way to be salvaged. Guest blog written by Michel Genard, Wind River.

The Swarm Technology are not just any ordinary unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). They fly together. Better still, they swarm together, for any Star Trek fans out there. They can also team up with a manned aircraft and act like a force multiplier. This kind of unmanned aircraft can bring significant improvements to almost every area of national and homeland security, from enhanced surveillance to missile defence.  Guest blog written by A...

After nearly 40 years in the business, with customers writing 100’s of millions of lines of application code running on billions of devices on earth and in space, the embedded industry’s leading software provider continues to deliver differentiated and disruptive offerings.  Guest blog written by Michel Genard, Wind River.

From surgical robots to 'smart hospitals' to wearable medical devices and virtual doctor visits, new technology is revolutionising healthcare.

Within the financial sector, Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) are one of the primary mechanisms for getting cash out of your bank or savings and loan account.  The majority of these devices are running Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system on older Intel motherboards.   Guest blog written by Rick Anderson, Wind River.

A new white paper written by Sandvine and Wind River asserts that NFV maybe hasn’t quite lived up to the promise of removing dependencies on vendor hardware. That said, it has been, and continues to be, a necessary element in the evolution of the telecommunications industry.  Guest blog written by Jeff Gowan, Wind River.

This blog post kicks off a space and astronomy series that follows Wind River missions and technologies that are shaping the views of modern science today. This month follow the remarkable mission given to Opportunity, the last one of the rover twins. Guest blog written by Andreea Volusincu, Wind River.

While Linux containers have been around a long time and are widely deployed in data centres and IT environments, the lack of easy-to-use pre-integrated platforms and lack of interaction with a broader ecosystem have prohibited their use in small-footprint edge systems. Guest blog written by Charlie Ashton.

Collaborating together WiZR and Wind River are offering AI-enabled video surveillance and analytics on the Wind River Titanium Cloud virtualisation platform. Titanium Cloud is a commercial-ready, NFV infrastructure software platform that enables service providers to deploy virtualised services faster, at lower cost, and with the high reliability that industries demand. WiZR has validated and pre integrated their solution ...

Wind River announced that Telefónica has completed their validation in their NFV Reference Lab of Wind River Titanium Cloud as a Virtualised Infrastructure Manager (VIM) for NFV workloads, in line with the multi VIM paradigm of their UNICA initiative. Titanium Cloud is an ultrareliable, deployment-ready virtualisation software platform, fully compatible with open standards such the Open Source MANO (OSM) orchestration project.

Wind River has announced enhancements to the Wind River Chassis portfolio of safe and secure automotive software. The latest updates to the Chassis portfolio include the integration with Wind River Titanium Cloud virtualisation software that delivers high reliability and ultra low latency to support the rigorous requirements of the world’s most demanding computing and communications networks.

Following on the recent success of the InSight probe’s Mars landing, VxWorks  is once again enabling an interplanetary first – an asteroid sample return mission. On 3rd December 2018, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. Guest blog written by Tim Skutt, Wind River.

Wind River has announced the release of a full suite of automotive, avionics, and industrial safety certification evidence for the latest version of VxWorks Cert Edition. The Real Time Operating System (RTOS) for safety-critical applications is designed and developed to the highest achievable safety levels accepted by worldwide certification authorities.

For the past nine months Ron Breault has been working as a member of an experienced, diverse team creating a new technical standard for use within industrial process automation. The activity has been managed under the careful guidance of The Open Group, and the effort is taking place in the Open Process Automation Forum, abbreviated as 'OPAF.' Guest blog from Ron Breault of Wind River.

A new white paper from Wind River has just been published by Mobile World Live titled: ‘Distributed Edge Clouds Are Complex, But Must They Be Difficult?’ (The answer is no by the way.) Guest blog written by Charlie Ashton.

On 26th November, the NASA InSight Lander, with the help of Wind River VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS), reached an important milestone in its journey to Mars, as InSight begins a 12,300mph descent to the red planet. With the Insight lander’s avionics system based on VxWorks, this NASA mission brings the Wind River RTOS back to Mars once again following the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity mission in 2012.

In the recent Wind River and Rockwell Collins joint webinar 'Plan with Confidence: Route to a Successful DO-178C Multi-Core Certification', a number of topics related to the planning, design, testing and analysis for RTCA DO-178C / EUROCAE ED-12C DAL A safety certification of avionics software systems running on multiple cores on multi-core processors were discussed. Blog written by Paul Parkinson, Wind River.