Marvell and Tuxera Together for Fast NAS Solution

Marvell Technology Group Ltd. and Tuxera Inc., provider of Windows and Mac compatible file systems for Android, Linux and other platforms, announced a fast full-featured NAS solution.

Built on the Marvell Kirkwood and ARMADA chipsets, Tuxera’s optimized XFS and NTFS technology offers performance compared to competing Linux solutions.

Marvell and Tuxera’s joint solution is designed to reduce overall development cost and enable faster time to market for customers’ NAS platforms. The achieved gains in speed enable a new generation of NAS applications that offer a seamless user experience – as well as portability across NTFS and other storage formats. The solution marks a breakthrough as consumers and businesses seek more efficient means to store and serve volumes of data and multimedia files across networked devices.

"Our collaboration with Tuxera, who delivers industry-leading file system solutions for NAS, reinforces Marvell’s leadership and commitment to breaking barriers in the storage space," said Paul Valentine , vice president of marketing for the Enterprise Business Unit at Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. "We understand performance is paramount for NAS customers, and we believe features such as file system optimizations – combined with both companies’ reputations for quality and support – place Marvell and Tuxera well ahead of the competition."

"Tuxera is pleased to integrate XFS and NTFS technology with Marvell’s market-leading application processors," said Mikko Valimaki , CEO of Tuxera. "Over the past year, Tuxera’s experts in XFS, ARM, network, Samba and performance tuning have worked diligently with Marvell engineers to reach a new industry record in speed. Together, we give manufacturers top-flight, fully-supported NAS solutions they can trust."

At 129 megabytes per second, Marvell and Tuxera’s NAS solution offers 2 GHz NAS performance.

In addition, Tuxera has optimized and tuned XFS for Marvell customers’ most common workloads. Tuxera’s NTFS technology is a solution to come pre-integrated with Marvell’s Kirkwood and ARMADA chipsets.

XFS is a scalable file system designed for use with multiple CPUs and RAIDs. NTFS is currently the most popular, scalable interoperable storage format for external backup.