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Green Hills Software Announces INTEGRITY
Workstation Support for Intel® Virtualization Technology
Provides Virtual Machine Performance Boost for World’s Most
Secure Operating System Technology for Workstations, Thin Clients,
and Servers
SANTA BARBARA, CA—May 1, 2007—Green Hills Software,
Inc., the technology leader in device software optimization (DSO) and real-time
operating systems (RTOS), today announced the availability of enhancements
to INTEGRITY Workstation to support Intel® Virtualization Technology-enabled
processors and chipsets. The INTEGRITY Workstation is based on the secure
and safety-certified INTEGRITY operating
system, and uses Green Hills Software’s Padded Cell™ virtual
machine technology to provide an operating environment that supports
high criticality applications alongside traditional, unmodified desktop
and server operating systems, such as Windows, Linux, and Solaris. Software
solutions that incorporate Intel Virtualization Technology enable multiple
operating systems to be run simultaneously in their own protected environments.
"What is unique here is technology that reaches the highest level
of security while still running more software than any other IT system
in the world," commented Dan O’Dowd, founder and chief executive
officer of Green Hills Software. "Intel® Virtualization Technology
accelerates guest operating system execution performance and robustness,
making this platform even more compelling for next-generation military,
intelligence, critical infrastructure, and financial applications."
"The combination of Green Hills’ software and Intel® Virtualization
Technology provides significant improvements in next-generation security
platform enablement," said Steve Price, director of marketing, Embedded
and Communications Processor Division, Intel. “When using the INTEGRITY
Workstation from Green Hills Software, customers can fully realize the
benefits of Intel® Virtualization Technology: enabling protected
computer usage models while preserving investments in software."
Multi-level Security
INTEGRITY Workstation incorporates a high-assurance Human Interface Device
Manager, which manages the display of information at multiple security
levels yet still supports a rich graphical environment. The Human Interface
Device Manager provides a cross-domain information transfer capability
that can be customized to support application or system-specific regrading
policies. It also provides a trusted path for the shared keyboard and
mouse devices and a multi-factor login and authentication mechanism
that cannot be spoofed.
The Leader in Safe and Secure Operating System Technology
Designed and developed to meet the most stringent security requirement – Evaluated
Assurance Level (EAL) 7 of the Common Criteria - Green Hills Software’s
INTEGRITY is the only commercially developed operating system to be certified
by in-house experts as a part of Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) systems
by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to the stringent DO-178B
Level A, the highest level of safety in which a system failure may
be catastrophic. INTEGRITY is also the first operating system to undergo
a Common Criteria security evaluation at EAL 6+, a level of assurance
that has never been achieved by any other operating system (http://www.ghs.com/news/20050829_eal6_skpp.html).
The Universal Operating System
INTEGRITY’s flexible architecture enables it to scale from small
footprint embedded devices all the way up to enterprise class servers.
INTEGRITY Workstation is also the first operating system environment
to be certified conformant to the
latest POSIX standard, POSIX.1-2003 (http://get.posixcertified.ieee.org),
making it an ideal platform for the development and deployment of open
standards-based applications.
About Padded Cell Technology
INTEGRITY Workstation incorporates Green Hills Software’s award-winning
Padded Cell software which enables multiple legacy operating systems
and applications to be run in secure partitions on the same computer.
Unlike other virtual machine technologies, Padded Cell never runs a single
line of virtual machine or guest operating system code in the supervisor
mode of the microprocessor, ensuring that secure applications cannot
be subverted or denied service, even if other parts of the system are
connected to the Internet and subjected to its associated hackers and
worms. The resulting platform enables systems designers to build the
most security-critical applications and run them alongside familiar operating
environments, saving cost, space, size, weight, and power over multiple
hardware platforms.
Availability
INTEGRITY Workstation runs on commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) PC-compatible
platforms. For specific availability information, contact sales@ghs.com.
About Green Hills Software
Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software, Inc. is the technology leader
in device software optimization (DSO) and real-time operating systems
(RTOS) for 32- and 64-bit embedded systems. Our royalty-free INTEGRITY® and velOSity™ real-time
operating systems, µ-velOSity™ microkernel,
compilers, MULTI® and AdaMULTI™ integrated development environments
and TimeMachine™ tool suite offer a complete development solution
that addresses both deeply embedded and high-reliability applications.
Green Hills Software is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA, with European
headquarters in the United Kingdom. Visit Green Hills Software on the
web at www.ghs.com. Green Hills Software is an affiliate
member of the Intel® Communications Alliance, a community of communications
and embedded developers and solutions providers committed to the development
of modular, standards-based solutions on Intel technologies.
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