Tuxera Inc. (natively Tuxera Oy) is a Finnish company that develops and sells file systems, flash management and networking software. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in

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, Finland. Tuxera's other offices are located in the US,

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and

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. The company focuses on

data management Data management comprises all disciplines related to handling data as a valuable resource, it is the practice of managing an organization's data so it can be analyzed for decision making. Concept The concept of data management emerged alongsi ...

software for

embedded systems An embedded system is a specialized computer system—a combination of a computer processor, computer memory, and input/output peripheral devices—that has a dedicated function within a larger mechanical or electronic system. It is em ...

: industry-standard file system technologies (

APFS Apple File System (APFS) is a proprietary file system developed and deployed by Apple Inc. for macOS Sierra (10.12.4) and later, iOS 10.3, tvOS 10.2, watchOS 3.2, and all versions of iPadOS. It aims to fix core problems of HFS+ (also ca ...

exFAT exFAT (Extensible File Allocation Table) is a file system optimized for flash memory such as USB flash drives and SD cards, that was introduced by Microsoft in 2006. exFAT was proprietary until 28 August 2019, when Microsoft published its spe ...

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HFS+ HFS Plus or HFS+ (also known as Mac OS Extended or HFS Extended) is a journaling file system developed by Apple Inc. It replaced the Hierarchical File System (HFS) as the primary file system of Apple computers with the 1998 release of Mac OS 8. ...

NTFS NT File System (NTFS) (commonly called ''New Technology File System'') is a proprietary journaling file system developed by Microsoft in the 1990s. It was developed to overcome scalability, security and other limitations with File Allocation Tabl ...

), other embedded proprietary file systems,

flash translation layer A flash memory controller (or flash controller) manages data stored on flash memory (usually NAND flash) and communicates with a computer or electronic device. Flash memory controllers can be designed for operating in low duty-cycle environments ...

software, and networking stacks. Tuxera has

network file systems A clustered file system (CFS) is a file system which is shared by being simultaneously Mount (computing), mounted on multiple Server (computing), servers. There are several approaches to computer cluster, clustering, most of which do not emplo ...

that support

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use cases as well.

History

The origin of the company dates back to the

open-source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use and view the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open source model is a decentrali ...

NTFS development in the late 1990s.

had been introduced in 1993 by Microsoft as the file system for

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. At that time Anton Altaparmakov emerged as the lead developer and maintainer of the Linux NTFS kernel driver. Meanwhile, Szabolcs Szakacsits continued to lead a platform-independent project under the name NTFS-3G. In 2006, NTFS-3G became the first driver to gain full read and write support. Commercial activity started in 2007 and the company was founded next year. In 2009 the company signed agreements with Microsoft, which was followed by global expansion and establishing collaboration with chipset vendors and software platform companies. After several years of contributions to the

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, Tuxera joined the

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in 2011. In 2019, the company became a board member of the SD Association. Tuxera also acquired

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that year, adding more file systems and flash management software to their offering. Later in 2021, Tuxera acquired HCC Embedded, adding more deeply embedded networking and storage software focused on

real-time operating systems A real-time operating system (RTOS) is an operating system (OS) for real-time computing applications that processes data and events that have critically defined time constraints. A RTOS is distinct from a time-sharing operating system, such as Unix ...

and micro-controllers.

Embedded software products

Microsoft NTFS by Tuxera (formerly Tuxera NTFS)

Tuxera develops a fully compatible NTFS file system driver for commercial use, primarily by OEMs and other device manufacturers. It's deployed in car IVIs, smart TVs,

set-top boxes A set-top box (STB), also known as a cable box, receiver, or simply box, and historically television decoder or a converter, is an information appliance device that generally contains a TV tuner input and displays output to a television set, t ...

, smartphones, tablets, routers,

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and other devices. It is available for Android and other

Linux Linux ( ) is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an kernel (operating system), operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically package manager, pac ...

platforms, QNX, WinCE

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Nucleus RTOS Nucleus RTOS is a real-time operating system (RTOS) produced by the Embedded Software Division of Mentor Graphics, a Siemens Business, supporting 32-bit computing, 32- and 64-bit computing, 64-bit embedded system platforms. The operating system (O ...

and

VxWorks VxWorks is a real-time operating system (or RTOS) developed as proprietary software by Wind River Systems, a subsidiary of Aptiv. First released in 1987, VxWorks is designed for use in embedded systems requiring real-time, Deterministic system, ...

. Supported architectures are

ARM architecture ARM (stylised in lowercase as arm, formerly an acronym for Advanced RISC Machines and originally Acorn RISC Machine) is a family of reduced instruction set computer, RISC instruction set architectures (ISAs) for central processing unit, com ...

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SuperH SuperH (or SH) is a 32-bit reduced instruction set computing (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Hitachi and currently produced by Renesas. It is implemented by microcontrollers and microprocessors for embedded systems. At the ...

and

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Microsoft exFAT by Tuxera (formerly Tuxera exFAT)

Tuxera

technology is used for SDXC memory card support. Tuxera was the first independent vendor to receive legal access to exFAT and TexFAT specifications, source code and verification tools from Microsoft. Tuxera exFAT can be found in automotive infotainment systems, Android phones and tablets from

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, Fujitsu,

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, Pantech and others.

Microsoft FAT by Tuxera (formerly Tuxera FAT)

Tuxera

software provides interoperability and support for storage types such as SD memory card, CF card,

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SSD A solid-state drive (SSD) is a type of solid-state storage device that uses Integrated circuit, integrated circuits to store data persistence (computer science), persistently. It is sometimes called semiconductor storage device, solid-stat ...

, HDD via

USB Universal Serial Bus (USB) is an industry standard, developed by USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), for digital data transmission and power delivery between many types of electronics. It specifies the architecture, in particular the physical ...

SATA SATA (Serial AT Attachment) is a computer bus interface that connects host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives, optical drives, and solid-state drives. Serial ATA succeeded the earlier Parallel ATA (PATA) standard ...

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, MMC and others. It is used by chipset and hardware manufacturers, and software and system integrators for full compliance with Microsoft patent licenses and GPL.

NTFS-3G

NTFS-3G is the original

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"community edition" driver used widely in

distributions, including

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, and others. On April 12, 2011 it was announced that Ntfsprogs project was merged with NTFS-3G.

Reliance Velocity (formerly VelocityFS by Tuxera and Tuxera Flash File System)

Tuxera also develops and commercializes its own proprietary Flash file system. Due to its

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technology it can be found for instance in vehicles and cars, integrated with the

event data recorder An event data recorder (EDR), more specifically motor vehicle event data recorder (MVEDR), similar to an accident data recorder, (ADR) sometimes referred to informally as an automotive black box (by analogy with the common nickname for flight ...

to make sure the data recorded from sensors is consistent even in case of a crash.

Tuxera FAT+

In 2017, Tuxera introduced FAT+, a file system implementation for Universal Flash Storage cards and removable storage that is compatible with

FAT32 File Allocation Table (FAT) is a file system developed for personal computers and was the default file system for the MS-DOS and Windows 9x operating systems. Originally developed in 1977 for use on floppy disks, it was adapted for use on ...

but without the file size limitation of 4 GiB. It is royalty free for UFS card host devices and a standard recommended by the Universal Flash Storage Association.

Consumer products

AllConnect (discontinued)

AllConnect was a mobile app for streaming music, photos and videos from Android and

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devices to DLNA receivers (smart TVs, set-top-boxes, wireless speakers, etc.). It was launched on November 12, 2013 under the name of Streambels. As of April, 2020, Tuxera discontinued development of the AllConnect technology and removed the Android and iOS apps from their respective stores.

Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Tuxera (formerly Tuxera NTFS for Mac)

Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Tuxera allows macOS computers to read and write NTFS partitions. By default, macOS provides only read access to NTFS partitions. The latest stable version of the driver is 2022, including support for

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and

Macs. Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Tuxera is bundled together with Tuxera Disk Manager to facilitate the format and maintenance of NTFS volumes in macOS. The software supports NTFS extended attributes and works with virtualization and encryption solutions including Parallels Desktop and

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SD Memory Card Formatter

Tuxera, in association with SD Association, developed the official formatting application for Secure Digital memory cards, which is available as a free download for Windows and macOS.

References

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