Macnica (Headquarters: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, President: Kazumasa Hara, hereafter Macnica), a total service and CLAVIS Company provider in semiconductors, networks, cybersecurity, and AI/IoT, has announced that it will become a world-leading company. Tuxera​ ​Japan Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Representative Board Director: Masashi Kuroko, hereinafter referred to as Tuxera), the Japanese subsidiary of Tuxera, Inc., a Finnish storage management software and network technology company, and sales agent in Japan. We would like to announce that we have concluded a store contract.

As the technological innovation of IoT and AI accelerates, the number of cases requiring safety-critical large-volume data management is increasing. There is a demand for the development and long-term operation of fault-tolerant devices that can be accessed without being damaged, and that are properly and safely stored in hardware (flash memory, etc.).

On the other hand, the limited lifespan and endurance of current flash storage devices make it difficult to meet these demands. As a solution to these issues, Tuxera provides storage software with the following three functions.

• ・Extends the hardware life of flash memory and reduces the risk of unexpected failures due to storage degradation.
• ・It has fault tolerance to ensure data stability against unexpected power interruptions and system crashes, and protects data from momentary interruptions.
• ・Reliable storage of data streams transferred at high speed from multiple sources, making it possible to maximize the performance of the hardware.

Tuxera's storage software is already embedded in billions of devices across industries around the world to store, use and share data. These applications use Tuxera 's software products to extend flash memory life, ensure data integrity, and increase storage performance with high speed.

Tuxera is an active outreach member of JEDEC, SNIA, Automotive Grade Linux, SD Association, The Linux Foundation and many other industry associations and has close relationships with major chipset manufacturers, memory manufacturers and software companies. We have continued to work daily on the issues facing the industry.

As a Tuxera product for external storage of embedded file systems Microsoft FAT/exFAT/NTFS by Tuxera, Tuxera APFS/HFS+ high-performance file system and flash management software for internal storage, including Tuxera Reliance Edge/Reliance Nitro/Reliance Velocity/FlashFX Tera Products with excellent reliability and performance such as smartphones, tablets, in-vehicle systems, TVs, cameras, drones, external storage, routers, space probes, IoT We provide a wide range of products to the embedded system market such as devices.

Macnica will contribute to increasing the added value of its customers' products by combining the many SoCs and memory products it handles with Tuxera products, in addition to serving the embedded systems market, for safety-critical customers and applications in Japan.

Tuukka Ahoniemi, CEO of Tuxera​,​ ​said:
“Tuxera established a Japanese subsidiary in 2020 and has been working to deliver high-performance, fail-safe data management solutions to various manufacturers in Macnica. Through this partnership, we will be able to introduce safety-critical solutions to a wide range of customers and applications in Japan, and we look forward to contributing to the advancement of IoT/AI devices in Japan."

Masashi Kuroko, CEO of Tuxera JapanBoard Director, Ltd., said:
"We are pleased to enter into this partnership with Macnica. We look forward to accelerating the adoption of Tuxera 's highly reliable file system in a wide range of fields, including industrial applications."

Keisuke Ito, Company President of Macnica CLAVIS Company, Ltd., said:
"Macnica is pleased to support and sell Tuxera products in Japan. We are confident that with this agency agreement, we will be able to provide high-value-added solutions for the design and development of safety-critical applications."

Macnica and Tuxera will work to popularize and operate highly reliable embedded products using embedded storage management software in order to realize a "rich and safe IoT society."

Please see the website below for details.
Tuxera website
https://www.tuxera.com/en 1
Macnica website​
https://www.macnica.co.jp/business/semiconductor/manufacturers/tuxera/

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