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Wind River Wins Carrier Network Virtualization Award for NFV Innovation of the Year

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

  • Wind River Titanium Server won the 2014 Carrier Network Virtualization Award for NFV Innovation of the Year.
  • Titanium Server enables service providers to maintain six-nines reliability as they transition to NFV, allowing them to meet "always on" expectations.
  • Titanium Server is part of the Wind River end-to-end product portfolio for IoT that addresses the management of intelligent devices at the edge, to the gateway, into the network, and up into the cloud.

ALAMEDA, Calif. — Dec. 11, 2014 — Wind River®, a world leader in delivering software for intelligent connected systems, has won a 2014 Carrier Network Virtualization Award for its Wind River Titanium Server. Titanium Server is a carrier grade Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) infrastructure software solution.

Titanium Server won top honors in the NFV Innovation of the Year category. The Carrier Network Virtualization Awards celebrate excellence in the telecom industry and recognize outstanding technologies developed for the NFV and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) industry in the last 12 months. The "NFV Innovation of the Year" category honors companies who have made a significant impact in facilitating the development of NFV.

"As the telecom industry moves towards NFV, ensuring the delivery of virtualized services at carrier grade levels of performance and reliability is critical. The Carrier Network Virtualization Award acknowledges Wind River's solution as an innovative technology that meets the needs for and advances NFV," said Paul Senyshyn, vice president and general manager of networking solutions at Wind River. "Wind River Titanium Server delivers an NFV infrastructure that can help service providers easily and quickly achieve their goals such as reducing costs while introducing new high-value services through the power of NFV."

Designed to meet the stringent "always on" requirements of the telecom industry, Titanium Server is a comprehensive, virtual network functions (VNF)—ready software platform. With Titanium Server as the NFV infrastructure software foundation, the telecom industry can take full advantage of the best of both worlds: the rapid service deployment typically found in enterprise networks with the carrier grade uptime and strict reliability mandated by telecom networks. Based on technologies using open standards including carrier grade Wind River Linux, real-time Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), carrier grade enhancements to OpenStack®, Intel® Data Plane Development Kit (Intel DPDK), and accelerated vSwitch technologies, and optimized for Intel architecture, Titanium Server brings together high performance with six-nines (99.9999%) carrier grade reliability.

"The Carrier Network Virtualization Awards recognize innovators who have created NFV technologies that have the power to revolutionize the market, remove barriers, and help make technology virtualization a reality," said Sally Watts, chairperson of the Carrier Network Virtualization Awards. "Wind River Titanium Server provides an essential infrastructure foundation to help the industry transition to the NFV networks of the future."

In addition to Titanium Server, Wind River offers a strong collection of proven networking and communications technologies that includes Wind River Linux, Carrier Grade Profile for Wind River Linux, and Wind River Open Virtualization. These offerings are part of the comprehensive Wind River portfolio that addresses the entire Internet of Things (IoT) architecture, from the management of intelligent devices at the edge, to the gateway, into the network, and up into the cloud, allowing Wind River to help customers transform their businesses and tap into the vast potential of IoT.

About Wind River
Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), is a world leader in delivering software for intelligent connected systems. The company has been pioneering computing inside embedded devices since 1981, and its technology is found in nearly 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.

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Wind River Advances IoT with Introduction of Edge Management System

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

  • Cloud-based IoT platform enables devices to connect securely to a centralized console, providing device management and solution extensibility.
  • Wind River Edge Management System an integral part of newly launched Intel® IoT Platform.
  • With platform, Wind River provides end-to-end product portfolio for IoT that addresses management of intelligent devices at the edge, to the gateway, into the network, and up into the cloud.

ALAMEDA, Calif. — Dec. 9, 2014 — Wind River®, a world leader in delivering software for intelligent connected systems, today unveiled Wind River Edge Management System, a cloud-based Internet of Things (IoT) platform that enables devices to connect securely to a centralized console, providing device management and solution extensibility. The platform is an integral part of the newly launched Intel® IoT Platform.

Edge Management System is a pre-integrated technology stack running from the device to the cloud that has been validated to work out-of-the-box with all Intel® IoT Platform components, as well as other IoT vendors' components. Specifically, the Edge Management System agent enables cloud connectivity to facilitate capabilities such as data capture, rules-based data analysis and response, configuration, and file transfer. It allows customers to quickly build industry-specific IoT solutions and integrate disparate enterprise IT systems, utilizing API management. The cloud-based middleware runs from the embedded device up through the cloud to reduce time-to-market and total cost of ownership.

"The IoT is presenting tremendous opportunities for new business value delivery through context-rich device interaction and insights,” said Chris Rommel, executive vice president of IoT & Embedded Technology at VDC Research. “These increasingly valuable and complex device networks, however, require new processes and platforms to effectively manage the data, security, and services delivered across the IoT network architecture.”

Edge Management System includes the following key features:

  • Device management: Remote device management capabilities reduce service costs by enabling remote diagnostics and maintenance.

  • Security: Secure software updates are integrated with on-device security features such as white listing and integrity monitoring.

  • Telemetry and analytics: Remote data capture collects sensor and system health data, and transforms them into actionable intelligence.


As part of Intel® IoT Platform, Edge Management System will be integrated and validated with Intel IoT® Gateway, which includes Wind River Intelligent Device Platform XT, a complete software development environment that provides pre-integrated and fully tested, ready-to-use components to secure, manage, and connect gateways. In addition, Edge Management System supports a wide variety of hardware and operating systems, providing customers with maximum flexibility in IoT implementations.

"IoT is all about business transformation–transforming machine data into actionable insights to generate new revenue streams, maximize existing infrastructure, and improve business processes," said Jim Douglas, senior vice president and chief marketing officer, Wind River. "With Edge Management System, Wind River now provides a comprehensive product portfolio that addresses the entire IoT architecture, from the management of intelligent devices at the edge, to the gateway, into the network, and up into the cloud, allowing us to deliver maximum value to our customer base."

For more information on Wind River Edge Management System, visit http://tinyurl.com/WREMS. To learn more about how Wind River is addressing the opportunities and challenges created by the Internet of Things, visit http://tinyurl.com/iotsite.

About Wind River
Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), is a world leader in delivering software for intelligent connected systems. The company has been pioneering computing inside embedded devices since 1981, and its technology is found in nearly 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.

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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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Jessica Miller
Global Corporate Communications

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Wind River Maintains Longstanding Position as Global Embedded Software Leader

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

  • Wind River tops the market again with continued leadership for its operating system platforms.
  • Market share for Wind River traditional real-time operating system and embedded Linux more than double that of closest competitors per VDC findings.
  • Wind River's comprehensive portfolio contributes to its position as embedded market leader and innovator of solutions to address complex challenges of new industry needs such as the Internet of Things and Network Functions Virtualization.

ALAMEDA, Calif. – Dec. 2, 2014 – Wind River®, a world leader in delivering software for intelligent connected systems, announced its achievement as the continued real-time operating system (RTOS) and embedded Linux market leader according to the latest findings from VDC Research. VDC’s study of the Embedded/Real-Time Operating Systems segment covers the global market for commercially available RTOSes and non-real-time operating systems and other related bundled products and services used in embedded applications.

According to VDC, Wind River retains its longstanding position as the traditional RTOS market leader for its portfolio of embedded products and services, led by its VxWorks® RTOS. Additionally, VDC has recognized Wind River as the embedded Linux market leader for its Wind River Linux platform and related solutions for the sixth consecutive year. In its latest findings, VDC determined that Wind River led the market for worldwide shipments of both RTOS and embedded Linux and related services.

According to VDC, Wind River led with the following statistics:

  • Nearly 40 percent of total market revenue for worldwide shipments of traditional RTOS and related services.

  • More than 50 percent of total market revenue for worldwide shipments of Linux and related services.

  • In both categories, Wind River percentage of total market revenue was more than double that of the closest competitor.


"Topping the market time and again, Wind River is the embedded industry market revenue share leader for its traditional RTOS and Linux platforms," said Chris Rommel, executive vice president at VDC Research. "Software complexity for the embedded industry has been climbing rapidly, especially with evolving market challenges such as those for IoT and NFV applications. Wind River's perennial leadership is a testament to its wide range of products and services across multiple industries and applications."

"Wind River's continued leadership reflects the compelling value of our comprehensive portfolio of proven products and services, as well as a rich technology heritage that draws from more than 30 years of embedded and vertical industry expertise," said Barry Mainz, president of Wind River. "We are committed to helping our customers achieve success and strive to make ongoing investments that will ensure our offerings continue to address dynamic and diverse market needs."

Wind River possesses a unique advantage within the embedded industry with its comprehensive software portfolio, which comprises run-time technologies including VxWorks, Wind River Linux and Android technologies, development tools, and full system simulation, as well as a wide range of proven industry-specific software solutions, combined with world-class global professional services and support.

About Wind River
Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel® Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), is a world leader in delivering software for intelligent connected systems. The company has been pioneering computing inside embedded devices since 1981, and its technology is found in nearly 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.

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Wind River is a trademark or registered trademark of Wind River Systems, Inc. and its affiliates. Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation in the United States and other countries. Other names may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Contact Information
Jessica Miller
Global Corporate Communications