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The Critical Infrastructure Challenge: Developing and Supporting Software for the Long Term

By Gareth Noyes Software content is increasing in every realm of technology, and has been the catalyst for the explosive growth of entirely new market sectors. The development and deployment of software at scale has matured significantly over the last decade in enterprise- and cloud-IT applications. This has been enabled, among other factors, by: Uniformity of computing infrastructure (think of…

New Performance Breakthrough for VxWorks-based HPEC Systems

By guest contributor Michelle Watson, Marketing Product Portfolio Manager, Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions For years, designers of High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) systems have sought to free up critical resources and establish optimal performance for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) applications. Today, system designers can take full advantage of the Intel® Xeon® D processor architecture for their multi-core/multi-board HPEC systems using…

VxWorks: Past and Future

By Andreea Volosincu The year is 2002. Brazil is winning the FIFA World Cup and the first cell phone to have a built-in camera is released in the US – yes, this story is THAT old. In the world of secure and reliable systems, Wind River releases VxWorks 5.5. Fast forward 16 years, VxWorks® 5.5 reaches its End-of-Life (EOL) status…

Edge Computing Enabling the Future

By guest contributor Fredrik Sande, Marketing Manager, Raima Most tech discussions today arrive at the same conclusion: the future of big data is edge computing. While discussions around edge computing are not necessarily new, the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) has clarified how critical establishing the right presence at the edge can be. Market demands are increasing at…

Wind River and Rockwell Collins Bring Open Architectures from Planning to Production

By Chip Downing Although many military aircraft suppliers, armed services, and government organizations have been promoting Open Architecture (OA) and Modular Open Systems Architecture (MOSA) for years, it has been somewhat difficult to find really good implementations of open architectures in shipping, fielded products. Many companies simply tend to create and update purpose-built platforms that are the legacy of almost…

When AI Goes Bad

By Mychal McCabe The Future of Humanity Institute recently followed up on last year's survey about AI exceeding human performance in a variety of tasks, with a report titled "The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation." The report focuses on three macro changes to the threat landscape: expansion of existing threats, introduction of new threats, and a…

Wind River Helix Device Cloud: Recipient of the 2018 IoT Global Awards Platform of the Year

By: Amanda Lowe I’m excited to announce that Wind River has just received the IoT Global Award for Platform of the Year for Wind River® Helix™ Device Cloud at Smart IoT London. The 2018 IoT Global Awards programs recognizes excellence in IoT innovation. The Platform of the Year Award honors the most innovative IoT-related Application Enablement / Connectivity / Technology…

The FACE™ Approach is the New Foundation of Affordable Military Avionics

By Chip Downing I am truly excited that The Open Group FACE™ Consortium has just released the latest FACE Technical Standard, Edition 3.0. This is a milestone in creating open standards for next generation military avionics systems and includes incremental improvements to the existing standard, as well as an enhanced data architecture, graphics, and lifecycle management services. With these enhancements…

Choosing the Right System Software for Medical Devices

By Jeff Kataoka The advances in healthcare, therapies and medical technologies are moving forward at an unbelievable pace. I’m amazed at how the treatments and technology can change so quickly, even from one year to the next. Recently, I witnessed how knee replacement surgery and the treatments can change over just fourteen months. I’ve witnessed new methods of providing anesthesia…

Spectre and Meltdown – How to Respond in the Embedded World

By Tim Skutt The past few weeks have included a whirlwind of speculation and revelations around a new set of security issues known as Spectre and Meltdown. Collectively, these issues impact most of the major processor architectures and implementations, prompting the cross-cutting question – “what should I do about these issues?” Much of the initial information available focuses on answering…

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