Brief history
Tuxera’s roots are in open source NTFS development dating to late 1990s. At that time Anton Altaparmakov emerged as the lead developer and maintainer of the Linux NTFS kernel driver. He went on to work for Apple to develop NTFS into Mac OS X between 2005-2008. Meanwhile, Szabolcs Szakacsits continued to lead the development under the name NTFS-3G aiming at a reliable, platform independent NTFS driver. The new driver became the first to gain full read/write support in 2006. Commercial activity started in 2007 when Szabolcs found out he was having more and more requests from companies to license, integrate and support the NTFS driver into their platforms. Increasing demand lead to the founding of the company next year.
In 2009, the company started to grow rapidly. Mikko Välimäki joined as CEO; Anton Altaparmakov and the key developers joined as well. The company’s name was changed from NTFS-3G Technology to Tuxera Ltd to reflect it would offer other interoperable file systems in addition to NTFS. In August, the company signed an intellectual property agreement with Microsoft, joined Microsoft’s interoperability vendor alliance, and announced as the first company an exFAT driver designed especially for data storage drives in consumer electronics.
Tuxera today
Tuxera continues to lead the development of the industry-standard NTFS driver. The company’s NTFS drivers have over 10 million installations in production use. Tuxera’s ongoing collaboration with Microsoft ensures seamless file system interoperability in the future as well. Tuxera was the first to offer exFAT drivers based on first-hand access to specifications, source code and verification tools.
Tuxera’s business model is to integrate and license commercial, high-performance, energy-saving versions of its file system drivers to customers and to provide support, maintenance and product updates. Additionally the company tests, optimizes, tunes and certifies file system drivers on customer platforms.
Tuxera’s customers include leading software, semiconductor, and consumer electronics companies. Together we design, implement and support the future of file system interoperability.
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Tuxera Ltd in brief:
- Profitable from the start
- Three-digit year-over-year revenue growth
- Owned by the management and employees
- Serving multi-billion dollar companies in all continents
- Founded by the developers of the leading NTFS project
- Extensive collaboration with Microsoft, including IPR and interoperability alliance agreements
- The first independent software vendor to offer exFAT drivers to chipset and device manufacturers
- Awarded funding by the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation to manage high growth
