Netgear Selects Tuxera File System

Tuxera, Inc., provider of interoperable file systems for Android, Linux, Mac and other platforms, announced NETGEAR, Inc. has selected Tuxera’s file system technology to power its Marvell-based ReadyNAS family of NAS devices for the SMB market.

Tuxera’s market file system technology increases NAS write speeds without compromising interoperability, functionality and scalability.

"We selected Tuxera because their file system technology allows us to achieve significantly faster results than before acceleration," notes Matt Pahnke, Senior Product Marketing Manager at NETGEAR. "With the help of Tuxera, NETGEAR’s ReadyNAS Duo v2 and NV+ v2 products feature significantly faster back-up times and seamless user experience with portable storages."

A typical NAS system runs off-the-shelf Linux software stack with standard open source file systems. Tuxera has partnered with NAS chipset manufacturers to integrate and optimize its proprietary and enhanced commercial file system technology into the devices. Tuxera’s comprehensive NAS offering for OEMs includes high-performance, chipset-optimized Tuxera XFS for the main storage and Tuxera NTFS and HFS+ file systems for external, portable storages.

"Tuxera’s mission is to serve advanced storage system manufacturers on the path to private clouds by making the world’s network storage centerpieces more responsive, scalable and portable," noted Mikko Välimäki, Tuxera CEO. "NETGEAR is among the first whom we are proudly shipping the latest file system technology to ramp up the device performance multiple times over the previous generation."