Wind River, a global leader in delivering
software for the intelligent edge, today debuted Wind River Studio, a cloud-native
platform for the development, deployment, operations, and servicing of
mission-critical intelligent systems where security, safety, and reliability
are required. This first release of Studio enables the flexible and efficient
deployment, management, and operations of intelligent 5G distributed edge
clouds through one single pane of glass.
"In order to
thrive in a digital- and AI-first world, companies are accelerating their
digital transformation plans from years to months. Wind River is committed to
realizing the digital future of our customers across the industries we serve,"
said Kevin Dallas, Wind River president and CEO. "Wind River Studio is the
first and only of its kind to deliver one environment for mission-critical
intelligent systems across the full product lifecycle. This new platform offers
dramatic improvements in productivity, agility, and time-to-market, with
seamless technology integration that includes far edge cloud compute, data
analytics, system level security, 5G, and AI/ML."
Mission-Critical
Intelligent Systems
Gartner
expects that, by 2022, more than 50% of enterprise-generated data will be
created and processed outside the traditional data center or cloud.1 With more
compute workloads moving away from data centers, the compute model is evolving
to an intelligent cloud and intelligent edge model, where the majority of low
latency compute takes place in the mission-critical intelligent system.
Mission-critical
intelligent systems will form the foundation of the digital transformation
across industries, including aerospace, defense, telecom, industrial,
automotive, and medical. These systems will have diverse needs around the far
edge cloud, 5G, AI/ML, real-time performance, security, safety, and
reliability. In addition, these systems will have the ability to securely
capture and process real-time machine data with digital feedback loops that
enable advanced automated and autonomous scenarios in such systems as robotics,
drones, autonomous vehicles, and augmented reality.
Wind River
and Verizon
Studio
cloud-native infrastructure software and analytics capabilities address service
providers' complex needs surrounding deployment and management of a physically
distributed ultra-low latency, cloud-native infrastructure. These technologies
are deployed in Verizon's 5G network and enabled the world's
first end-to-end fully virtualized 5G data session.
"Verizon has
been on the leading edge of virtualizing the network, which provides the
foundation for programmability in our network and allows us to speed new
services to customers," said Srini Kalapala, vice president of Technology
Planning and Development for Verizon. "Virtualizing the entire network from the
core to the edge has been a massive, multiyear redesign effort of our network
architecture that simplifies and modernizes our entire network."
"Technology
innovation leaders are keen to invest in cloud-native infrastructure
technologies to increase software velocity; enable developer agility,
application scalability, and resilience; and reduce technical debt," according
to Gartner. "Containers and Kubernetes are becoming the foundation for building
this cloud-native infrastructure to improve software velocity and developer
productivity ... by 2022, more than 75% of global organizations will be running
containerized applications in production, which is a significant increase from
fewer than 30% today."
Wind River
is a leader in the early 5G landscape, powering the majority of 5G RAN
deployments. With the Studio capabilities that are now available, the company
addresses service providers' complex challenge of deploying and managing a
physically distributed, ultra-low latency cloud-native infrastructure through
one single pane of glass with the following:
- A fully
cloud-native, Kubernetes- and container-based architecture for the deployment
and management of distributed edge networks at scale
- Network
analytics technology that includes an integrated data collection, monitoring,
and reporting tool to optimize the management and operation of a distributed
cloud network
- Core-to-edge
orchestration for the efficient management and automation of distributed cloud
networks and application services, including the management of containers,
network elements, and edge devices
Additionally,
the company announced Studio public preview capabilities, which provide a
DevSecOps environment to build, test, and simulate devices and intelligent
systems. To inquire about a Studio demo, visit www.windriver.com/studio/developer.