Next-Gen Software-Defined Storage Engineered for
Modern Workloads
Lightbits disaggregated, software-defined block storage offers unmatched flexibility to modernize and tailor your infrastructure to support data-intensive workloads, like AI/Machine Learning.
Purpose-built for NVMe over TCP, it delivers unequaled price/performance and cost-efficiency at scale, powering any application in Kubernetes, OpenStack, OpenShift, VMware, and other platforms.
LIGHTBITS SOFTWARE-DEFINED STORAGE
One block storage solution that powers all your applications.
Discover Lightbits, best-in-class, disaggregated software-defined block storage that delivers unmatched price/performance and flexibility, created by the inventors of NVMe over TCP.
Our software powers any performance-intensive workload – AI/Machine Learning, real-time analytics, transactional – on any platform with up to 75M IOPS and consistent sub-millisecond latency at scale.
Seamless integrations with Kubernetes, OpenStack, VMware, AWS, and Azure VMware Solution, and more.
The unique architecture of our software utilizes resources more efficiently with less proprietary hardware, which reduces energy consumption, and satisfies sustainability strategies.
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
Risk-Free Guarantee
Superior Performing Data Storage Solutions for Half the Cost. Guaranteed.
Accelerate your cloud-first journey with our risk-free guarantee. Let us demonstrate the unique value and low total cost of ownership advantages that the Lightbits Cloud Data Platform offers.
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.
Recognized as a Leading Software-Defined Storage Vendor
Customer Stories
Organizations that use Lightbits software are reaping the CapEx and OpEx benefits of disaggregated, software-defined storage architected for NVMe over TCP protocol with better application performance, cost-efficiency, and simpler storage management for AI/machine learning, real-time analytics, transactional workloads, cloud services, and more.
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.
With Lightbits as part of our platform we can achieve 16 times the performance at half the cost of AI Clouds from American hyperscalers.
"....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.
We strive to provide best in class digital edge cloud experience, and we are excited to innovate together with partners like Intel and Lightbits to push performance to the next level.
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.
Enable a Cloud Operations Model with Lightbits Software
Unmatched Scalability and Flexibility
Seamless adaptability without the limitations of legacy systems, enabling independent scaling of compute and storage resources while supporting a single cluster for CSI, Cinder, KVM, and bare metal simultaneously, with the added control of Quality of Service (QoS).
Effortless Resolution of App Time-Outs
Delivering the industry’s best performance and consistent low latency at scale, ensuring seamless data access for critical workloads, from databases and AI/ML pipelines to OpenStack and OpenShift environments, and reducing the risk of app time-outs.
Exceptional Cost-Efficiency
Reduce CapEx and OpEx overhead without compromising performance. No proprietary hardware needed and the industry’s best hardware efficiency.
Unrivaled High Availability & Resiliency
Seamless storage server failover that ensures continuous service, safeguards business continuity, and protects against data loss.
Cloud-Native Integration
Seamless integration with Kubernetes, OpenStack, OpenShift, and VMware, as well as AWS and Azure VMware Solution. Simplifies the deployment and management of persistent storage across private and public cloud platforms enabling a unified approach to data center infrastructure.
Explore Solutions
For AI and
Machine Learning
where petabyte scale meets
sub-millisecond speed
Build your AI/ML platform on scalable, efficient, high-performance block storage to accelerate data pre-processing, enhance model training, speed up real-time inference and checkpointing, and optimize RAG databases.
Lightbits surpasses petabyte levels and achieves up to 75M IOPS with consistent sub-millisecond tail latency, making it ideal for vector and other databases. Harness the power of NVMe over TCP block storage to accelerate your AI data pipeline.
For Service Providers and Private Clouds
optimize price/performance
for open source
Whether your building a cloud from the ground up or deploy one using open-source orchestration environments, Lightbits will power any application in your virtualized and containerized environments with optimal price/performance, enabling your growth while simplifying data storage management.
Realize the full benefits of a cloud operations model: flexibility, efficiency, and scalability without sacrificing high performance.
For Kubernetes
support 100s of K8s clusters
Fast, persistent storage for modern applications at scale. From seamless live migrations and robust multi-tenancy to cost-effective scaling and peak performance for every PVC, Lightbits redefines storage efficiency and performance for Kubernetes.
One Lightbits cluster supports hundreds of Kubernetes clusters with industry-leading IOPS without ever compromising container portability.
For VMware
enterprise-ready hyperscale storage
Lightbits is the first NVMe/TCP storage certified by VMware for Azure and ESXi 7.0U3 offering high-performance, scalable, highly resilient and available enterprise-class block storage for VMware with seamless vCenter integration for a broad range of use cases.
Migrating VMs from iSCSI SAN to modern NVMe/TCP software-defined storage is as simple as triggering storage vMotion.
For Public Clouds
superior performance for half the cost of native cloud storage
Lightbits is the fastest block storage available on the public cloud today, so you can run performance-intensive workloads and the cloud with confidence. With software license portability, you are free to move storage resources across clouds wherever and whenever they are needed.
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