Wind River unveils on-premise cloud infrastructure designed to advance Industrial IoT
Wind River®, a global provider of software for the Internet of Things (IoT), is advancing Industrial IoT (IIoT) with the introduction of a commercially deployable software virtualisation platform. It is designed for critical infrastructure companies, enabling them cost-effectively to evolve aging legacy control systems.
Wind River Titanium Control is an on-premise cloud infrastructure that virtualises traditional physical subsystems using a platform based on open standards.
“ARC believes the influx of new IIoT technologies now entering the automation market has the potential to be a major disruption to existing business models that have been relatively stable for decades,” said Harry Forbes, research director, ARC Advisory Group.
“An excellent example is Wind River Titanium Control, which combines their long experience in real-time operating systems with on premise cloud computing technology. This combination enables the virtualisation of real-time automation applications that until recently could only be implemented in embedded system hardware. The implications of this capability for the manufacturing automation market are very far-reaching, and automation suppliers are noticing.”
Harry Forbes
Traditional industrial control systems were not designed to support IoT. Most are rigid, single purpose and do not interoperate well with components; additionally, they are high cost to deploy, integrate, and maintain. And the obsolescence cycle is driving system updates that require new systems to keep pace with innovation while maintaining or lowering capital costs.
Titanium Control safely and securely delivers the high performance, high availability, flexibility, and low latency needed to reduce capital and operating expenses and minimise unscheduled downtime for critical industrial applications and control services at any scale. Unlike enterprise platforms, it provides this application and services reliability at the edge.
Key features of Titanium Control include:
- De facto standard Open Source software for cloud and virtualisation, including Linux, real-time KVM and OpenStack
- High performance and high availability with accelerated vSwitch and inter-VM communication, and virtual infrastructure management
- Security, scalability, and accelerated deployment
- Hitless software updates and patching with no interruption to services or applications
“Companies are driving activities to develop open control systems and breaking down proprietary and operational siloes to achieve enhanced operations through using a distributed intelligence platform,” said Jim Douglas, president of Wind River.
Jim Douglas
“With the addition of Titanium Cloud to our product portfolio, Wind River is enabling a new industrial era through virtualisation, real-time performance and edge to cloud connectivity. Our software provides industries from manufacturing to healthcare to transportation with powerful ways to increase efficiency and bolster safety, security, and reliability.”
Titanium Control is part of the Wind River Titanium Cloud portfolio of virtualisation products for the deployment of critical services from data center environments that require real-time performance and continuous service availability. It is optimised for Intel® Xeon® processors, and is pre-validated on hardware from the providers of Intel-based servers. Wind River, an Intel company.
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