Wind River Systems, Inc. is a U.S.-based provider of embedded and edge software for mission-critical and safety-critical systems. Founded in 1981, the company is known for the VxWorks real-time operating system, Wind River Linux, and Wind River Studio, a cloud-native platform for developing, deploying, and managing intelligent edge applications.
Wind River’s technologies are used across aerospace and defense, industrial automation, automotive, energy, telecommunications, and medical sectors. Its offerings support real-time control, high availability, functional safety, and cybersecurity requirements in operational environments. Solutions span RTOS and embedded Linux, virtualization, container orchestration at the edge, over-the-air update frameworks, and lifecycle management tools, complemented by engineering and security services. These capabilities are commonly applied to industrial and process automation, IIoT deployments, and secure edge computing, enabling reliable operation of complex, distributed systems.