Software-Defined Storage Engineered for a New Era
Elastic block storage built for any application that delivers an unmatched combination of high performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
Trusted by the world’s leading organizations building private and public clouds
What is Lightbits?
From the inventors of the NVMe® over TCP protocol, Lightbits software-defined elastic block storage (EBS) powers modern private and public clouds with an unmatched combination of scalability, high-performance, and efficiency. The software supports any modern application and integrates seamlessly with popular orchestration environments Kubernetes, OpenStack, Red Hat® OpenShift® Virtualization, VMware, and others. It can deliver up to 75M IOPS while maintaining sub-millisecond consistent latency at scale. As a disaggregated software-defined solution it runs on top of the latest server, networking, and flash technologies as well as cloud infrastructure, giving you greater cost savings, flexibility in choice of hardware, and the agility to move storage services wherever and whenever they are needed.
Cost-Efficiency
- Increase ROI
- Reduce data center footprint and power efficiency while improving storage performance
- Reduce TCO with a disaggregated architecture
- Increase the endurance and maximize the utility of SSDs
High Performance
- Up to 75M IOPS
- <500µsec avg latency
- <1 msec tail latency
- Accelerate application performance without adding cores or nodes
Resiliency
- Built-in multi-zone replication for enterprise-grade resiliency
- Synchronous 3-way replication within the same AZ (LRS) or across AZs (ZRS)
- Self-healing automatically creates new replicas
- Highly available and operational during failures
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Lightbits Cloud Storage Solutions
Lightbits on AWS
Elevate the performance and scalability of your block storage on AWS for your most demanding database and analytics workloads at the best possible value for your enterprise.
Lightbits on Microsoft Azure
Migrate storage-intensive workloads to Azure with the confidence of knowing you’ll have the performance you need today, and the ability to scale cost-effectively in the future.
Power Your Oracle Database
on the Cloud
Rehost your Oracle workloads on AWS cost-efficiently and with the same high performance that you are used to on-premises for a better Oracle experience on the cloud.
High Performance,
Scalable, Cost-Efficient
Storage for OpenStack
Give your OpenStack clusters the power of NVMe/TCP with high-performance scale-out storage that ensures interoperability with current and future OpenStack releases.
Persistent Storage for Kubernetes
Bring persistence and greater efficiency to the storage for your Kubernetes containers with Lightbits while maintaining application portability through its Container Storage Interface (CSI).
Enterprise-class
Cloud Storage for VMware
Upgrade the storage performance for your virtualized workloads effortlessly with Lightbits for VMware and its seamless vCenter integration.
The Ideal Storage Platform for KVM Orchestrators
With seamless integrations with both OpenStack and OpenShift, Lightbits meets the demands of your growing KVM environment. Lightbits block storage clusters scale out effortlessly without performance degradation, and deliver high availability and data protection with up to three data replicas. With Lightbits, you gain a flexible, powerful storage platform for the full range of your KVM-based applications and the most popular orchestrators.
Customer Stories
With Lightbits as part of our platform we can achieve 16 times the performance at half the cost of AI Clouds from American hyperscalers.
Lightbits' high-performance block storage solution has addressed our storage challenges, unlocking the full potential of Crusoe Cloud's infrastructure and empowering users to pursue innovative research and development in the field of climate science and AI. Together, Crusoe Cloud and Lightbits are driving the future of climate-focused computing toward a more sustainable and efficient tomorrow.
"....thank you guys for the incredible support...your Storage is fast as hell." Metalstack.cloud is building its PaaS using Lightbits, a faster alternative to Ceph.
I can absolutely recommend using Lightbits over Ceph, much simpler, way faster, a perfect match for Kubernetes and container workloads.
With the platform built on Lightbits software and Intel hardware we were able to deliver the performance our customers required and could be confident telling them that their data was in safe hands.
Lightbits software-defined storage solution running on standard servers is at least 33% lower latency at ½ the cost of proprietary AFAs.
Lightbits provides users with a high-performance, easy-to-maintain, and low-cost storage solution based on the data center Ethernet-TCP network. This protocol provides great flexibility and is suitable for bare metal, containers, databasses, and other scenarios.
For years, NVMe/TCP has offered the promise of improved performance, increased deployment flexibility, and better cost efficiency through ‘hyperscale-style’ disaggregation of storage and compute, so we’re excited to see Lightbits, VMware, and Intel collaborating to bring this capability to our customers.
Lightbits is purpose-built for cloud-native, high-performance database applications. Our customers in financial services, gaming, and manufacturing industries see immediate business value in how Lightbits can speed time to market by provisioning storage services and cloud-based applications faster, in a secure and multi-tenant environment, while also lowering their TCO,
With our combined solution, IT organizations can manage their cloud infrastructure from a secure, on-premises, virtualized and container-driven orchestration platform with Lightbits as the high-performance back-end storage platform. Our joint customers, like Starview International, save on costs, simplify their infrastructure, and enable faster application deployment.
Lightbits is revolutionizing NVMe-oF by delivering low latency, high performance NVMe storage over standard TCP networks that accelerate data intensive and latency sensitive workloads such as Cassandra, MySQL. As software-defined storage, it provides the agility needed for modern, cloud native infrastructure.
Lightbits Cloud Storage Solutions
Lightbits for
Cloud Service Providers
Build a cloud service with efficiencies to be more competitive with the hyperscalers. Multi-tenancy and Quality of Service (QoS), ensure your customers won’t experience any security or service impacts.
Lightbits for
Financial Services
Simplify your storage infrastructure by replacing Fibre Channel SAN with software-defined storage built on NVMe/TCP that delivers performance for trading applications and mission-critical databases.
Lightbits for E-Commerce
Expand your online business with a data platform that effortlessly scales to accommodate market growth and fluctuating customer demand, all while minimizing infrastructure costs.
Lightbits for AI/ML
Build your AI cloud service on scalable, efficient, high-performance block storage to accelerate data pre-processing, enhance model training, speed up real-time inference, and optimize Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) databases.
Lightbits for OpenStack
Give your OpenStack clusters the power of NVMe/TCP with high-performance scale-out storage that ensures interoperability with current and future OpenStack releases.
Lightbits for Kubernetes
Bring persistence and greater efficiency to the storage for your Kubernetes containers with Lightbits while maintaining application portability through its Container Storage Interface (CSI).
Lightbits for
Microsoft Azure
Migrate storage-intensive workloads to Azure with the confidence of knowing you’ll have the performance you need today, and the ability to scale cost-effectively in the future.
Lightbits for AWS
Elevate the performance and scalability of your block storage on AWS for your most demanding database and analytics workloads at the best possible value for your enterprise.
Lightbits for VMware
Upgrade the storage performance for your virtualized workloads effortlessly with Lightbits for VMware and its seamless vCenter integration.
Lightbits for
Azure VMware Solution
Offered as a Managed Application for turnkey operations, migrate your virtualized workloads to Azure VMware Solution with the confidence that you’re using the lowest latency external block storage solution available on AVS.
Lightbits for Oracle
Rehost your Oracle workloads on AWS or Azure cost-efficiently and with the same high performance that you are used to on-premises for a better Oracle experience on the cloud.
Lightbits as a Service
Eliminate the guesswork of executing a cloud-first strategy. Lightbits Labs provisions a storage cluster for you in minutes on AWS or Azure, complete with enterprise data services such as compression, thin provisioning, and auto-scaling.
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