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Happy 20th birthday u-blox!
Cast your minds back to 1997, what were you doing? Daniel Ammann, Jean‑Pierre Wyss and Andreas Thiel were inventing the world’s smallest GPS module as part of their post‑graduate research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). The idea was a simple as it was ingenious and, within a matter of months, they teamed up with their professor and a well‑wishing mentor and investor to found u‑blox.
Are you familiar with the new OpenStack live migration features?
For over 5 years now Wind River has been exposed to OpenStack, and Ron Breault believes he has grown blasé to the Live Migration feature. It just does what it is supposed to and does it well. Guest blog by Ron Breault.
Make sure you read the small print
Steve Rogerson looks at some of the news that may have missed the front page. How often do you read term and conditions? Most people, including me, just tick the box without a second thought. Maybe you should think again after an experiment by WiFi company Purple. It stuck an extra clause into its WiFi agreement saying users may have to do 1,000 hours community service as part of their contract, including stuff such as cleaning loos and sewe...
Let's look at wearables and tackling the ethical challenge
It is clear over the past few years that wearable devices have moved forward and are continuing to do so. From their early role as novelty gadgets and sports accessories to become more powerful and generally more useful, who knows what is next. Guest blog by Mark Patrick, Mouser Electronics.
Continuous innovation and reduced operational costs
People often ask; “Why should we chose Wind River’s Titanium Cloud NFV software platform over a ‘free’, open source alternative”? And Ron Breault’s reply sounds like: “Continuous innovation and reduced operational costs.” Guest blog by Ron Breault.
Time-sensitive networking: reliable communication for Industrial IoT
Today’s industrial manufacturing cell can include several robot arms, some cameras, position sensors, and some controllers connected together in a network. The cameras and sensors send data to the controllers. The controllers send commands to the robot arms. What happens when a command from the controller arrives at the robot arm a tenth of a second late? Guest blog by Ka Kay Achacoso.
No security compromising when virtualising control applications
Virtualisation can bring a wide variety of benefits to industrial control applications without compromising on the level of security delivered by traditional physical infrastructure, as long as you have selected the right software platform. Guest blog by Charlie Ashton.
Doubling down on security
The general availability milestone for the latest release of the Wind River Titanium Cloud product family has been achieved. Guest blog by Ron Breault.
Wind River enables new Intel Xeon scalable platform
Most people have read the news this week about Intel’s announcement of the Intel Xeon Scalable platform, the highest-performance, most versatile data centre platform ever. The new platform brings massive advantages to customers such as cloud and communications service providers, enterprises, high-performance computing providers and artificial intelligence companies. Guest blog by Charlie Ashton.
The impact of the connected economy on data management
Before the end of the decade, the number of connected things is projected to grow exorbitantly. Looking at different sources, projections for the number of connected objects by 2020 could be as low as 26 billion or as high as 50 billion. But even the low end of that range is quite large, so it is reasonable to expect connectedness to be commonplace and expected within the next few years.