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Intel Moves to Build Out IoT Partner Ecosystem

Looking to drive the adoption of Internet of things (IoT) applications in a way that will ultimately generate trillions of dollars in revenues for the IT industry, Intel this week at an its IoT Insights 2015 event unveiled a broad assortment of products and services and reference architectures designed to make it much simpler for […]

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Michael Vizard

Nov 6, 2015

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Looking to drive the adoption of Internet of things (IoT) applications in a way that will ultimately generate trillions of dollars in revenues for the IT industry, Intel this week at an its IoT Insights 2015 event unveiled a broad assortment of products and services and reference architectures designed to make it much simpler for solution providers to build and deploy IoT applications.

Intel is trying to jump-start an IoT partner ecosystem around what it described as a third wave of computing that will be driven by machine data moving in and out of the cloud. Along with that effort, Intel also announced a partner program through which it will work with other vendors and solution providers to drive the development of these applications. Those partners include Accenture, GE, Honeywell, SAP and Yanzi.

“We’re providing a foundational set of capabilities on which our partners and customers can build solutions,” said Doug Davis, senior vice president for the IoT Group at Intel. “We’ve created that first implementation of IoT platform to connect the unconnected.”

At the core of the Intel IoT initiative is a new class of Quark system-on-a-chip (SOC) offerings that Intel is positioning as a tier of processors below its Atom line of processors that are used in mobile computing devices. Those processors will manifest themselves in microcontrollers that will be not only identify patterns and anomalies, but also include security capabilities, such as being able to white-list the applications running on them.

In addition, Intel unveiled two free operating systems, dubbed Pulsar and Rocket, based on derivatives of Linux created by Wind River Systems, a unit of Intel that focuses on embedded systems. Those two operating systems are designed to securely connect IoT devices running Pulsar and Rocket back to a variety of cloud services.

Finally, the giant chip maker also unveiled the Intel Trusted Analytics Platform (TAP), a marketplace where solution providers can securely host big data in the cloud and then make use of a number of third-party analytics applications to analyze that data using libraries that Intel has developed to optimize those applications. TAP itself is hosted on an implementation of the open-source Cloud Foundry platform-as-as-service software and is designed to process data in the cloud and push analytics out to where data is actually stored across a distributed IoT network.

Those technologies are designed to complement existing investments in Intel Trusted Connected Services, API Management Portal and Intel Services Gateway offerings that Intel provides to help some 400,000 plus IoT developers. To facilitate the development of those projects, Intel is providing developers with a cloud box toolkit that includes both tools and processors that can be connected back to simulation services in the cloud that enable developers to model and test applications before deploying them.

One of the first vendors expected to leverage the IoT platform is SAP. The company is expected to extend support for the new Intel framework from its SAP HANA in-memory computing platform in the first half of 2016.

Michael Vizard

Michael Vizard is a seasoned IT journalist, with nearly 30 years of experience writing and editing about enterprise IT issues. He is a writer for publications including Programmableweb, IT Business Edge, CIOinsight, Channel Insider and UBM Tech. He formerly was editorial director for Ziff-Davis Enterprise, where he launched the company’s custom content division, and has also served as editor in chief for CRN and InfoWorld. He also has held editorial positions at PC Week, Computerworld and Digital Review.

Intel Moves to Build Out IoT Partner Ecosystem

Michael Vizard

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