Verifying Tuxera SMB server’s automatic connection failover and recovery with Kubernetes

• May 24, 2018 /
• by Anoop Vijayan

Tuxera SMB is a high-performance alternative for open-source Samba and other SMB/CIFS servers. It has state-of-the-art modular architecture that runs in user or kernel space. This enables Tuxera SMB to achieve maximum I/O throughput, low latency, and ensures the lowest CPU usage and memory footprint compared to other solutions. It supports the Server Message Block

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What does ECU consolidation mean for automotive storage?

• May 21, 2018 /
• by Severi Tikkala

Since the 1970s, the way to add new capabilities into the car has been to add an electronic control unit (ECU) for each new feature. ECUs give us convenient features such as electronic mirror controls, but some take care of many of today’s safety-critical systems like anti-lock brakes. Over time, the number of ECUs inside

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Tuxera mentored student team selected as the winner of the Accenture Quality Award

• May 9, 2018 /
• by Stan Dmitriev

The company continues to actively engage with the student community by mentoring for an award-winning software project for Industrial IoT Helsinki, Finland – May 9, 2018 – Tuxera, the world leading storage software and networking technology company continues its proactive partnership with Aalto University. For the sixth consecutive year, the company has collaborated with one of the

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Four key factors driving automotive edge storage

• May 7, 2018 /
• by Markku Räsänen

Cars rolling off the lines today generate up to 25 gigabytes of data per hour. With the adoption of further levels of autonomous driving—up to levels 3 or 4—the amount of data is set to increase to up to 1.4 terabytes per hour. Some of that data will be pushed to the cloud, but much

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Why some Android phones slow down as they age

• April 26, 2018 /
• by Stan Dmitriev

Storage fragmentation in Android plays a major role in the ageing performance of the phone Ever thought why your Android phone slows down with time? You are not alone. Many Android users complain about their Android phones “lagging” as their device ages. So what’s the cause of this performance degradation? Well, there is not just

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How I went from student to developer of an award-winning app

• April 23, 2018 /
• by Peng Liu

I’m Peng Liu, a Software Engineer at Tuxera. My journey as an award-winning app developer started in China, where I graduated with a degree in Electronic and Information Engineering in 2011. As I was looking to get a higher degree, my aunt—who lives in London—suggested I go abroad. Following through on her advice, I applied

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Could your car’s file systems be dragging you down?

• April 9, 2018 /
• by Tiffiny Rossi

We are honored to have been featured in a guest post on file system fragmentation at Western Digital’s blog. The following is a snippet from the original post. Be sure to read the full post here: Fragmentation and Storage Performance in Automotive. Flash storage technology delivers high-speed performance that can cope with the terabytes of

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2025: The year IoT, industrial tech, AI, and robots merge into intelligent cars

• March 12, 2018 /
• by Claudio M. Camacho

A perspective from Embedded World 2018. In a small town in Germany, a little north of Munich, there is Nuremberg—a city that has one of the most popular street circuits for DTM and F3 racing. But that’s not what brought me there. In the recent years, Nuremberg has also become the home for deep tech

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