Digital infrastructure specialist Black Box is partnering edge software specialist Wind River. The two companies aim to deliver intelligent edge and private cloud solutions across industries including industrial, and manufacturing sectors.

The collaboration brings together Wind River’s Cloud Platform and eLxr Pro, with Black Box’s global integration capabilities and vertical market focus.

Wind River Cloud Platform is a production-grade, distributed Kubernetes solution for virtualised and containerised applications, along with time-saving orchestration, automation, and analytics tools. Cloud Platform is designed to allow companies to deploy and manage complex cloud architectures in mission-critical environments. Based on the open source enterprise-grade eLxr project, Wind River’s eLxr Pro brings commercial enterprise support and maintenance on top of the eLxr community distribution to help customers adopt scalable and reliable Linux solutions for cloud to-edge deployments.

As part of this partnership, Black Box has also entered into a separate agreement with Wind River under which the company will execute end-user customer agreements in multiple geographies.

“Wind River Cloud Platform and eLxr Pro deliver the scalable, secure, and efficient infrastructure enterprises demand today, and by teaming with Black Box, we’re unlocking that capability at scale,” said Darrell Jordan-Smith, Chief Revenue Officer, Wind River. “This partnership means customers gain faster access to proven, high-performance edge-and-cloud architectures, backed by trusted systems integration, operational support, and deployment reach. Quite simply – customers can accelerate innovation, reduce risk, and run smarter across the entire cloud-to-edge continuum.”

“Wind River’s technologies are transformative for the intelligent edge,” said Sanjeev Verma, President and CEO of Black Box. Combined with our integration expertise, we are delivering future-ready solutions that drive efficiency, innovation, and new revenue streams. This partnership also marks Black Box’s entry into hyper-converged and edge compute, positioning us at the forefront of digital infrastructure transformation while creating long-term value for our customers and shareholders.”