Press release
June 2, 2009
Tekes funds Tuxera’s research and development
HELSINKI, FINLAND: Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation, has decided to fund Tuxera Ltd’s research and development activities.
“We are very pleased with the funding decision. This funding ensures that the development of our core product, NTFS driver, will meet the requirements of the most demanding environments in the future. The funding also allows us to invest in our growth strategy”, says Mikko Välimäki, CEO, Tuxera Ltd.
Tuxera’s NTFS driver is a freely and commercially available and supported read/write NTFS driver for Linux, Mac OS X and other operating systems. The development has been ongoing for over 10 years and commercial support has been given since 2002.
About Tekes. Tekes is the most important publicly funded expert organisation for financing research, development and innovation in Finland. See more from http://www.tekes.fi/eng/
Tuxera
Tuxera is the leading provider of quality-assured data storage management software and networking technologies. We help people and businesses store and move data reliably, while making file transfers fast and content easily accessible. Our software is at the core of billions of phones, tablets, cars, TV sets, cameras, drones, external storage, routers, spacecraft, IoT devices, and public cloud storage platforms.
Tuxera’s customers include car makers, device manufacturers, industrial equipment manufacturers, data-driven enterprises, and many more. We help them solve complex challenges involving data in all its states – at rest, in use, and in motion. They rely on our software to protect data integrity, ensure data accessibility, improve storage performance, transfer data rapidly and securely, and extend flash memory lifetime in their products and for their projects.