Tuxera teams with Marvell to bring seamless fabric-based scalable storage for automotive

Tuxera and Marvell present their joint offering demonstrating shared NVMe-oF SSD storage for automotive ECUs.

Embedded World 2019 – Nuremberg, Germany – February 26, 2019 – Tuxera, the world leading storage software and networking technology company, announced its co-operation with Marvell®, to bring scalable shared storage infrastructure to autonomous and connected cars. Combining Tuxera’s storage software expertise and Marvell’s state-of-the-art connectivity and NVMe-oF™ SSD storage technology, the companies are tackling the growing demand for high performance, reliable storage – enabling data-driven applications for Tier-1s and OEMs. The companies are showcasing their joint PoC (proof of concept) at Embedded World 2019, with the live demonstration accessible to the public during the show hours at Tuxera’s booth (4-158).

“We are proud to announce our collaboration with Marvell and to showcase our combined technological offering. Connected cars are becoming extremely data-driven. There are more and more use cases where same data needs to be accessible for multiple domains of the car. This makes the traditional storage stack of the car extremely inefficient – creating a demand for more advanced alternatives. Working together with Marvell, we are enabling these trends – offering a multi-purpose centralized storage infrastructure with minimal footprint for the hardware stack. We look forward to continuing our co-operation with Marvell,” says Severi Tikkala, Director of Automotive Business Development of Tuxera.

“Applications such as Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, infotainment and telematic control units are driving increased bandwidth requirements in the vehicle, making the connected car a data center on wheels.  However, traditional architectures bring islands of storage in each individual system, which can result in over-subscription of NVMe™ SSDs, eMMC or UFS flash storage. Through our collaboration with Tuxera, we are demonstrating a new approach that enables file sharing between different electronic systems in the car. Marvell expertise in data center storage along with Tuxera software provide a cost-effective and scalable platform to share data between systems for improved manageability and reliability,” says Johnny Lam, Director of Automotive Business Development at Marvell Semiconductor, Inc.

As new data-driven applications continue to arise in the ECUs, it becomes critical that the network access data locally to make immediate decisions in a car.  Marvell’s leading NVMe-oF SSD controller and networking switching technology coupled with Tuxera technology is designed to help accelerate data and storage in a car reliably and securely.  The storage infrastructure continues to gain in complexity and such environments define high-requirements for storage in a car, creating a demand for innovative solutions that can handle the high bandwidth of data, while keeping the infrastructure cost-efficient.

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