Allows Tuxera to provide high-quality, licensed exFAT implementation at smart price
REDMOND, Wash., and HELSINKI, Finland – August 14, 2019 – Tuxera announces that Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC and Tuxera have deepened their collaboration with a new exFAT partner agreement, fostering innovative business solutions for customers worldwide. The collaboration will allow Tuxera to provide customers exFAT technology along with a patent license from Microsoft in a single competitively priced product.
“We are very happy with this arrangement. Now more than ever, customers deserve exFAT solutions that are hassle-free and intelligently priced. We are confident that with this increased cooperation, we will be able to provide these benefits even better than before,” says Szabolcs Szakacsits, President and Chief Technology Officer at Tuxera. “As a global leader in file systems, we have developed our exFAT implementation for ultimate performance and fail-safety.”
“As the demand for data storage increases, it’s more important than ever that file system software keeps pace,” says Rob Kowal, Director of exFAT Licensing at Microsoft. “By strengthening our longstanding partnership, customers can focus on innovation because by using Microsoft exFAT by Tuxera their storage needs will be met.”
Powering the future of SD capability with bulletproof performance
Microsoft’s exFAT technology remains the industry leading file system embedded into nearly any device requiring high-capacity storage support—including USB drives, In-vehicle Infotainment (IVI) systems, and Secure Digital (SD) memory cards. With embedded storage needs rising among automotive systems, drones, and video content distributors, OEMs are facing a growing need for storage software able to keep up with market demands. Tackling this surge in storage demand requires first-class implementations able to get the most out of exFAT technology.
Since 2009, Tuxera has been a partner of Microsoft—their first within the domain of file system implementations. Thanks to this long-standing cooperation, Tuxera has developed a strong understanding of what’s required for a truly premium, high-capacity data storage experience for Windows-compatible file systems.
Precision-tuned for optimum performance regardless of the platform, Microsoft exFAT by Tuxera is customizable to suit your high-capacity flash storage needs. A high-performance kernel module built for speed and reliability, Microsoft exFAT by Tuxera allows you to attain the maximum I/O throughput from any device.
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.