Technology Leaders Integrate Operational Data with Cloud-Based
Back-End Services for End-to-End IOT Implementations
RALEIGH, N.C. & AMARO, Italy--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, and Eurotech (ETH:IM), a leading provider of
Machine-to-Machine (M2M) platforms and Internet of Things (IoT)
solutions, today announced a collaboration to simplify IoT integration
and accelerate implementations of IoT projects. Red Hat and Eurotech
have combined their complementary technologies with the intention of
building an end-to-end architecture for IoT that will seek to bridge the
gap between operational and information technology.
Eurotech and Red Hat technologies will strive to solve the problems of
scalability, performance latency, reliability, and security inherent to
complex IoT implementations. Based on pushing computing power to the
network edge, the combined solution will help to remove the need to ship
masses of data to the cloud for real-time processing by enabling
essential data aggregation, data transformation, integration, and
routing to occur close to the operational devices, triggering business
rules that automate machine processes.
Forming the foundation of this new architecture are the world’s leading
enterprise Linux platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and market-leading
Eurotech M2M/IoT software. Combining Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red
Hat JBoss Middleware along with Eurotech Everyware Software Framework
and Eurotech Everyware Cloud will help to drive enhanced computing
security, manageability, and application support for IoT solutions,
providing connectivity to the device tier as well as the datacenter and
cloud tier. Combined, Red Hat and Eurotech products and expertise can
deliver powerful data, device and embedded application management
services to customers that need to integrate their assets in the field
more efficiently with the world of enterprise IT and mobile applications.
Through this collaboration, both companies are able to leverage their
experiences in supporting IoT deployments numbering in the hundreds of
thousands of devices. By choosing enterprise-ready open source software
from Red Hat, Eurotech seeks to offer their customers a solution that
they can deploy with greater ease while extending and adapting as
technology and market opportunities evolve. Together, Red Hat and
Eurotech are able to provide enabling technologies that can link
operational systems to the enterprise, helping to simplify integration
with IT applications and systems.
Supporting Quotes
Jim Totton, vice president and general manager, Platforms Business
Unit, Red Hat
“Working with partners such as Eurotech that truly understand the unique
challenges and opportunities presented by industrial IoT has helped to
confirm the value that mission critical IT solutions and open source
innovation brings to large-scale IoT deployments. By collaborating with
Eurotech and building the next-generation of IoT architecture on Red Hat
solutions while embracing open standards, we seek to better address the
enterprise requirements around reliability, stability, and security,
critical questions that must be answered to foster greater adoption of
IoT across the enterprise.”
Robert Andres, CMO, Eurotech
“Good collaborations build on a common understanding of success factors,
technology and an aligned vision. The joint work between Red Hat and
Eurotech is a perfect example of such a collaboration. Both companies
understand the value and necessity of a strong ecosystem to deliver IoT
solutions. The companies’ respective competencies and products
complement each other - Red Hat on the enterprise IT side, and Eurotech
on the operational technology (OT) side with hardware and software.
What’s more, Open Source and Java are important pillars in both
companies’ strategies, and all these factors ensure a good alignment and
many synergies between the parties.”
Eugene Signorini, senior analyst, IoT, Enterprise Strategy Group
“Enterprise Strategy Group considers open standards important to drive
technology innovation in the IoT market. The Red Hat and Eurotech
partnership helps drive IoT innovation in a way that addresses critical
business issues around security, reliability and scalability.”
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About Eurotech
Eurotech (ETH:IM) is a global company that designs, creates and delivers
full Internet of Things solutions, including hardware, software and
services to leading systems integrators and enterprises large and small.
With Eurotech solutions in place, clients have access to the latest open
source and standardized software stacks, flexible and rugged
multi-service gateways and sophisticated sensors to bring actionable
data from the field into business operations. Working with world-class
ecosystem partners, Eurotech delivers on the promise of the Internet of
Things either from end to end, or with best in class building blocks,
including device and data management, connectivity and communication
platform, intelligent edge devices and smart objects following business
models that fit today’s business world. Learn more about Eurotech at www.eurotech.com.
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or
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Group
Giuliana Vidoni, +39-0433-485462
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Source: Red Hat, Inc. and Eurotech