Green Hills Software, an independent vendor of embedded software solutions, and Imation Corp., makers of IronKey storage devices, recently announced that Green Hills Software’s INTEGRITY(R) RTOS can now support secure file access on Imation’s IronKey(TM) encrypted USB storage platform.

“Embedded device manufacturers have asked us for long-term, tested and reliable high security solutions for their data interoperability needs. Imation’s IronKey solutions together with Green Hills Software’s secure and reliable operating systems provide embedded designers a total solution with high capacity and high security processing,” said Tim Reed, vice president, Advanced Products Group, Green Hills Software.

INTEGRITY RTOS is a platform-independent real-time operating system that is built upon a partitioning architecture to provide embedded systems that deliver maximum reliability, security, and real-time performance across a variety of applications.

The joint solution provides interoperable data-at-rest protection for INTEGRITY applications and encrypted file transfer between Windows, Linux and INTEGRITY systems on IronKey Basic S250 and D250 USB drives.

“Green Hills Software is well known for their global market leadership in the most demanding embedded applications. Imation shares Green Hills Software’s focus on the highest levels of reliability, availability and security,” said Erik Hutslar, executive director of product management for Imation’s IronKey solutions. “This solution effectively addresses the data storage and secure access challenges faced by the biggest government and financial customers today.”