Wind River Drives IoT Device Development with Real-Time Virtualization Offering
July 28 2015 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
- Virtualization Profile for VxWorks
integrates real-time embedded, Type 1 hypervisor into the core of
the real-time operating system.
- Wind River real-time virtualization
offering update includes storage virtualization capabilities,
enhanced security capabilities, and expanded processor
support.
- VxWorks continues to help customers
develop scalable, future-proof, safer, and more secure operating
environments for connected devices in the IoT.
Wind River®, a global leader in
delivering software for the Internet of Things (IoT), has announced
a major update to its real-time virtualization offering that allows
customers to further reduce cost and innovate connected devices.
The update includes storage virtualization capabilities, enhanced
security capabilities, and expanded processor support.
Virtualization Profile for VxWorks® is based on Wind River
virtualization technology and extends the scalability capabilities
of VxWorks by integrating a real-time embedded, Type 1 hypervisor
into the core of the real-time operating system (RTOS). Through
embedded virtualization, it allows VxWorks customers to consolidate
multiple disparate workloads on a single processor. Critical in
today's era of IoT, it helps to address the need for robust, safer
and more secure partitioning across all market segments.
“Virtualization is a key attribute in GE’s global vision for
industrial control systems in the era of the Industrial Internet.
It allows the GE businesses to combine their real-time control
logic, HMI, security, and cloud connectivity into a single
platform,” said Wes Skeffington, principal engineer at GE. “Wind
River’s virtualization offering provides the right attributes like
scalability, storage virtualization, real-time behavior, virtual
machine isolation, and security capabilities to realize this
vision.”
Updates to Virtualization Profile for VxWorks include the
following:
- Storage virtualization through
VirtIO allows devices to share a single storage controller,
even a single disk, such as a Serial ATA device between multiple
virtual machines (VMs), thereby dramatically reducing cost and
complexity for consolidated systems. The run-time configuration,
combined with support for the VirtIO device virtualization
framework makes the virtualization profile a flexible and highly
customizable virtualization layer for embedded devices.
- Enhanced security capabilities
include seamless integration with the Security Profile for VxWorks.
These capabilities help customers to guard security from power-on
all the way through VM load and beyond with secure boot, secure
load, and data encryption during transmission and after
shutdown.
- Expanded support for Intel®
Atom™ and Celeron™ processors, providing even greater choices for
customers to build product lines that scale from low end
controllers to major gateways and high performance compute and
display stations.
“Embedded virtualization allows customers to meet the challenges
of the IoT era; it enables a future-proof architecture that can
adapt and evolve to meet changing market requirements, customer
needs, and technology advancements,” said Dinyar Dastoor, vice
president and general manager of operating system platforms at Wind
River. “With these latest virtualization and security capability
enhancements, Wind River has further strengthened VxWorks as the
leading RTOS for IoT where connectivity, scalability and the
ability to develop safer and more secure environments are
paramount.”
The Virtualization Profile for VxWorks is an integral part of
the Intel Industrial Solutions System Consolidation Series, a
production-ready, virtualization software stack used for running an
assortment of industrial and IoT workloads on a single
platform.
More information about Virtualization Profile for VxWorks is
available at http://tinyurl.com/VxWorksVirtualization. And to learn
more about how Wind River is addressing the opportunities and
challenges of IoT, visit http://tinyurl.com/WindHelix.
About Wind River
Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation
(NASDAQ:INTC), is a global 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 a comprehensive
portfolio of solutions for addressing the system-level challenges
and opportunities of IoT that is backed by world-class global
professional services, award-winning customer support, and a broad
partner ecosystem. Wind River delivers the software and expertise
that enables the innovation and deployment of safe, secure, and
reliable intelligent systems. To learn more, visit
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.
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Wind RiverJessica Miller,
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