Exar Corporation is acquiring Altior Inc. The company provides FPGA based PCIe cards and compression software that is transparent to the application and enables compression through a plug-and-play lightweight layered file system in the Linux
kernel and POSIX compliant File Systems.
The company’s database compression technology ideally fits with Altior’s layered file system translation and plug-and-play operation.
The company’s AltraFlex cards and CeDeFS software will expand Exar’s footprint in big data and is expected to increase ithe company’s penetration and growth in this market.
Exar Corporation
