Lightbits on Microsoft Azure

High-performance cloud storage. Consistent sub-millisecond latency. Enterprise-grade resiliency. All delivered with maximum cost-efficiency.

Microsoft Azure Cloud Overview

Migrate Storage-Intensive Applications to Azure with Confidence

Lightbits Cloud Data Platform delivers the most scalable, highest-performance storage on Azure with the efficiency you need to control costs for your ever-growing cloud environment. With Lightbits, your storage-intensive workloads, such as SQL and NoSQL databases, can run on Azure efficiently even at peak demand periods, giving your users an exceptional experience–without running up cloud charges.

Reduce Azure Cloud Storage Costs.

Migrate latency-sensitive apps that couldn’t previously run on Azure due to storage bottlenecks and pay only for the Azure storage optimized virtual machines you deploy. Provision as many volumes or snapshots to any number of virtual machines with no additional cost.

Enterprise Data Services. High Availability.

Lightbits on Azure comes with built-in enterprise features: snapshots, clones, QoS, compression and thin provisioning. Spans multiple Availability Zones and plugs directly into Azure Virtual Machines.

High-Performance Multi-Tenant Storage.

With NVMe/TCP shared storage you can provision high-performance, persistent volumes to your application, protecting data from failures and enabling dynamic, independent scaling of compute and storage. A single Lightbits cluster can service multiple heterogeneous app environments.

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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.

See How Much You Can Save on Azure Cloud Storage

Native cloud storage can be up to 7X more expensive than Lightbits, the fastest block storage on Azure today offering predictable low cost that will not bust your IT budget.

Microsoft Azure Cloud Use Cases

Lightbits for Oracle on Azure

Storage will affect how well your Oracle tasks run, how reliable they are, and how much they cost. Understanding the choices of available storage options and their performance capabilities is the key to successfully migrating Oracle to Azure VMs.

“Lightbits has the most scalable and highest performance storage we’ve tested on Azure.”
— Azure Storage Product Manager

Lightbits Cloud Data Platform Advantage

Enterprise Features

Attach NVMe/TCP high-performance volumes to any virtual machine series and enjoy the benefits of enterprise features such as fast thin provisioning, snapshots, clones, dynamic volume resize, QoS, compression, and thin provisioning.

High Performance

Lightbits running on Azure Lsv3-Series storage-optimized virtual machines is faster than native public cloud storage. Solves common storage bottlenecks with low and consistent latency and unmatched performance.

Data Protection & High Availability

Your data is protected using synchronous 3-way replication within the same Availability Zone (LRS) or across Availability Zones (ZRS). In case of failures, your applications will still have access to the data and Lightbits self-healing capabilities will automatically recreate new replicas. All services are highly available and operational during failures.

Ease of Use

Deploy Lightbits on Azure in minutes and manage your data in the cloud the same it’s managed on-premises. Easily provision and attach your volumes to any Virtual Machine using API-driven architecture.

Scalable

Dynamically scale-out or scale-down your storage cluster on-demand. Save on capacity with built-in compression and thin provisioning. The capacity savings go directly to you.

Hybrid Cloud

Port your per-server licenses between your on-premises storage servers and Azure storage optimized virtual machines as you need. Migrate your workload to the Cloud at your pace and on your terms.

	Azure Disk Storage	Lightbits	Lightbits Advantage
Storage Costs	Charged by capacity plus for provisioned IOPS and throughput	No IOPS or throughput charges and up to 86% lower pricing than Azure Ultra Disk	Low, predictable pricing for premium performance
Performance	Up to 160K IOPS per volume and Up to 120K IOPS per VM using Azure Ultra Disk	1M IOPS/volume, 3M+ IOPS per VM, consistent low latency	Maximum performance for your most demanding storage-intensive workloads
Snapshots & Clones	No (top tier storage) Yes (low performance storage)	Yes	Instant protection and recovery
Compression & Fast Thin Provisioning	No	Yes	Increase your effective storage capacity
Cloud and On-Premise	No	Yes	Flexibility

Microsoft Azure Cloud Deployment

Lightbits Managed Application on Azure

Lightbits is available through the Marketplace as a Managed Application, making it as easy to provision and manage as the native storage offerings. Managed application services include 24/7 health monitoring, high availability with SLAs, proactive software upgrades, critical vulnerability patches, auto-healing notifications, and guidelines for cluster expansion.