Red Hat and Eurotech Launch End-to-End, Fully Open Source IoT Cloud Platform Project
Co-sponsored Eclipse Kapua project based on Eurotech Everyware Cloud
software and driven by Red Hat’s open source expertise and leadership
SAN FRANCISCO--(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 the launch of a new, open source Eclipse
Foundation project to manage IoT edge devices, from connectivity and
configuration to application lifecycle. The co-sponsored project,
Eclipse Kapua, combines with the existing Eclipse Kura project to offer
IoT developers and end users an open platform for end-to-end IoT
implementations, helping them to avoid costly, proprietary lock-in and
accelerate community-driven development.
The collaboration between Red Hat and Eurotech represents a significant
boost to open source IoT solutions and marks the development of the
first end-to-end open source IoT platform. Eurotech is now contributing
its existing code base for its Everyware
Cloud IoT cloud integration platform to the Kapua project, which is
in addition to the company’s past contribution of its Everyware Software
Framework (ESF) under the Kura project. Both Red Hat and Eurotech,
leaders in the Eclipse IoT community, plan to participate actively in
Kapua and Kura, developing and testing code, collaborating with other
contributors, and integrating existing open source projects that are
integral to IoT solutions (e.g. Apache Camel, ActiveMQ, Drools, etc.).
Eurotech ReliaGATE 20-26, powered by Red Hat
An essential component of the platform is the intelligent gateway,
designed to address the problems of scalability, performance latency,
reliability and security inherent to complex IoT implementations.
Earlier this week, Eurotech
announced the ReliaGATE 20-26, powered by Red Hat, an intelligent
gateway that provides data and device management services for IoT
deployments encompassing hundreds of thousands of devices. By pushing
computing to the network edge, the intelligent gateway can remove the
need to transmit masses of data back to a central datacenter for
processing. Instead, essential data aggregation, data transformation,
integration, and routing are handled by the gateway closer to physical
devices, triggering business rules that can automate machine operations
in near real-time.
Supporting Quotes
Marco Carrer, CTO, Eurotech Group
“The Kapua Project, driven by Red Hat and Eurotech and based on
Eurotech’s Everyware Cloud, provides a critical piece of the fully open
IoT cloud platform, enabling IoT developers to embrace the flexibility,
scale and reliability of open source for next-generation deployments.
The combination of our open sourced IoT technology and Red Hat’s
expertise in community building will help drive a more open, more
innovative software landscape when it comes to building and deploying
IoT implementations.”
Mark Enzweiler, senior vice president, Global Channel Sales and
Alliances, Red Hat
“Open source is the foundational element of many modern IT innovations,
from cloud computing to Linux containers, and the Internet-of-Things is
no different. By co-sponsoring Eclipse Kapua, we, along with our partner
Eurotech, seek to build a flexible, stable base for future IoT
innovation, a base powered by upstream communities and responsive to
emerging needs around industrial IoT.”
Mike Milinkovich, executive director, Eclipse Foundation
“The richness of the Eclipse Kapua project, with its modular integration
platform for IoT devices and sensors, enhances the overall Eclipse IoT
offering. Kapua is tightly connected to several Eclipse IoT projects and
with the leadership of Red Hat, Eurotech and other project contributors,
the Eclipse IoT offering continues to drive innovation in the Internet
of Things and make new applications possible.”
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About Eurotech
Eurotech (ETH:IM) is a global company that designs, creates and
delivers full Internet of Things solutions, including services, software
and hardware 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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