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 Espoo, Finland. Tuxera's other offices are located in the US, South Korea, Japan, Hungary,
The company focuses on data management software for Embedded system: industry-standard file system technologies (APFS, exFAT, FAT, HFS Plus, NTFS), other embedded proprietary file systems, flash translation layer software, and Networking stack.
History
The origin of the company dates back to the development of open-source NTFS in the late 1990s.
NTFS had been introduced in 1993 by Microsoft as the file system for
Windows NT. 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.
[ Suomalaisfirman ohjelmisto löytyy uusista Bemareista ja Mersuista]
After several years of contributions to the Linux kernel, Tuxera joined the Linux Foundation in 2011.[ Reuters Tuxera Joins Linux Foundation (Reuters)]
In 2019, the company became a board member of the SD Association.
Tuxera acquired Datalight from US that year, adding more file systems and flash management software to their offering. Later in 2021, Tuxera acquired HCC Embedded,
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 box, smartphones, tablets, routers, NAS and other devices. It is available for Android and other
Linux platforms,
QNX,
WinCE Series 40,
Nucleus RTOS and
VxWorks. Supported architectures are
ARM architecture, MIPS architecture,
PowerPC,
SuperH and x86.
Microsoft exFAT by Tuxera (formerly Tuxera exFAT)
Tuxera
exFAT 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.
[James Kendrick, Android, Linux get Large File Handling With Tuxera exFAT] Tuxera exFAT can be found in automotive infotainment systems, Android phones and tablets from
ASUS,
Fujitsu,
Panasonic,
Pantech and others.
[Jani Timonen, "Kotimainen ohjelmistoyritys Tuxera on teknologiaraketti – kasvua yli 6000 prosenttia", Helsingin Sanomat, 14.07.2015. Retrieved 05.10.2015.]
Microsoft FAT by Tuxera (formerly Tuxera FAT)
Tuxera FAT software provides interoperability and support for storage types such as SD memory card,
CF card,
Memory Stick,
SSD, HDD via
USB,
SATA,
eSATA,
MultiMediaCard and others.
[ Tuxera FAT by Tuxera Inc.] 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
free-software "community edition" driver used widely in
Linux distributions, including
Fedora Linux,
Ubuntu Linux, and others. On April 12, 2011 it was announced that
Ntfsprogs project was merged with NTFS-3G.
[ NTFS-3G Merges With NTFSprogs, Plus New Version]
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
fail-safe technology it can be found for instance in vehicles and cars, integrated with the event data recorder to make sure the data recorded from sensors is consistent even in case of a crash.
[Kristen Hall-Geisler, The importance of black boxes in an autonomous automotive future, "TechCrunch", 13.05.2016. Retrieved 15.05.2016.]
Tuxera FAT+
In 2017, Tuxera introduced FAT+,
[ Tuxera FAT+ File System for Embedded Systems is Compatible with FAT32, Faster, and Supports Files up to 16TB] a file system implementation for Universal Flash Storage cards and removable storage that is compatible with FAT32 but without the file size limitation of 4 GiB. It is royalty free for UFS card host devices
[Mikko Välimäki, Introducing FAT+: A royalty-free file system technology for removable UFS cards, Flash Memory Summit, 10.08.2017. Retrieved 11.01.2018.] and a standard recommended by the Universal Flash Storage Association.
[Universal Flash Storage Association, Tuxera introduces FAT+, a futureproof and interoperable file system technology for Removable Flash Storage]
Consumer products
AllConnect (discontinued)
AllConnect was a mobile app for streaming music, photos and videos from Android and
iOS devices to
DLNA receivers (smart TVs, set-top-boxes, wireless speakers, etc.). It was launched on November 12, 2013 under the name of Streambels.
[ Streambels App Brings AirPlay and DLNA to Android Phones and Tablets Supports Media Streaming to the Most Popular Smart Devices on the Market] 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
Apple silicon,
Intel and
PowerPC Macs.
[ NTFS for Mac Help Center] Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Tuxera is bundled together with Tuxera Disk Manager
[ Tuxera Disk Manager works around El Capitan to format drives that work with Windows] 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
VMware Fusion.
SD Memory Card Formatter
Tuxera, in association with
SD Association, developed the official formatting application for
SD card, which is available as a free download for Windows, Linux and macOS.
See also
