Jim Truchard, president, CEO and cofounder of National Instruments said in his keynote speech at NI week:

Technology from advanced-physics research institute CERN will form part of National Instruments’ long-term strategy to improve the ability of distributed systems to support real-time control. … White Rabbit offers a tremendous opportunity to get into the nanosecond range and we are working intensely to bring this capability to distributed systems.

Mike Santori, vice president of product marketing at NI said:
Timing and synchronization are foundation technologies for control and test.

More info in the blog post Particle-collider technology to help NI build time-aware systems.