Lightbits for Service Providers
and Private Clouds
Lightbits optimizes price/performance for modern applications in containerized and virtualized environments and is the foundation for a cloud operations model.
Lightbits enables a Cloud Operations Model for on-premises infrastructure
Whether you are building data infrastructure from the ground up or augmenting your existing Ceph Storage system Lightbits will power any application in your virtualized and containerized on-premises environments with optimal price/performance, enabling your growth while simplifying data storage management.
Lightbits software-defined block storage provides a unique blend of performance, scalability, and efficiency. It seamlessly integrates with KVM, OpenStack, OpenShift, Kubernetes, VMware, and other platforms, ensuring peak performance for every volume and Persistent Volume Claim (PVC) while minimizing data center footprint through optimized hardware utilization.
Designed for I/O-intensive workloads, it delivers industry-leading performance and cost-efficiency at scale, supporting real-time analytics, transactional applications in e-commerce and financial services, cloud services (including AI clouds), AI checkpointing and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and databases like Oracle.
Lightbits Seamlessly Integrates with Open Source Environments
One storage solution that optimizes for cost-efficiency, performance, scalability, and reliability across platforms.
Redefining storage performance and efficiency for cloud-native applications
✔ Unleashing peak performance for every PVC
✔ Effortless live migration with KubeVirt
✔ Seamless multi-tenancy and encryption
✔ Scalability, resiliency, and cost-effectiveness
Seamless integration with OpenStack for faster deployment of cloud services
✔ Unmatched parallel performance
✔ Unleashing peak performance for every volume in OpenStack
✔ Effortless live migration with OpenStack Volume Retype
✔ Disaggregated storage
✔ Scalability, resiliency, and cost-effectiveness
Explore Solutions
For Cloud Service Providers
unmatched price/performance efficiency
A single Lightbits cluster provides multi-tenancy for multiple heterogeneous environments. Lightbits Quality of Service (QoS) ensures your users won’t notice any service impacts.
For Financial Services
lowest latency at scale for faster transactions and analytics
Lightbits is used by some of the world’s largest financial institutions, because it delivers the industry’s best performance, lowest consistent latency, availability, and cost-efficiency to power the most demanding real-time analytics, and transaction-heavy workloads in financial services.
For AI & 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 Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) databases.
For e-Commerce
lowest latency at scale for better customer digital experiences
Effortlessly and economically scale your eCommerce platform in response to business demand ensuring 24/7 availability and time to market for deploying new services, while accelerating data collection and online transactions.
Software-Defined Storage for Private Clouds
Purpose-built for NVMe over TCP, Lightbits beats Ceph Block Storage performance by 16X while lowering TCO for demanding workloads at scale.
Customer Stories
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.
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.
Why would an organization build an on-premises cloud data platform instead of using the public cloud?
Many organizations opt for on-premises solutions for reasons such as:
- Data sovereignty: Keeping sensitive data within the organization’s control.
- Compliance: Meeting strict regulatory requirements that mandate on-site data storage.
- Performance: Ensuring low-latency access to data.
- Customization: Tailoring the platform to specific needs without third-party limitations.
What are the benefits of managing an on-premises cloud data platform?
Complete Data Control
Provides full ownership and control over your data, infrastructure, and security policies.
Regulatory Compliance
Simplifies adherence to stringent data residency and industry-specific compliance standards (e.g., GDPR).
Customizability and Integration
Offers flexibility to design and optimize the infrastructure to meet your unique business needs.
Predictable Costs
Avoids fluctuating operational expenses common in public cloud platforms by leveraging a fixed-cost infrastructure. Software-defined, open-source solutions offers cost efficiency, especially for performance-intensive workloads at scale.
Performance and Latency
Delivers high-performance capabilities and reduced latencies supporting applications requiring real-time responses without dependency on external networks.
Scalability with Cloud-Like Features
Combines the scalability and automation of cloud with the stability and predictability of on-premises systems. You can leverage hybrid implementations to scale workloads to the cloud when necessary.
What is an on-premises cloud data platform, and how is it different from a public cloud?
An on-premises cloud data platform is a cloud-like data center infrastructure model that is deployed and managed within a company’s data center. Unlike hyperscale public cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP), an on-premises cloud offers full control over your data, hardware, and software, while delivering similar public cloud benefits like scalability and automation.
Cloud architecture is gaining significant momentum in data centers as many organizations are repatriating workloads on the public cloud back to on-premises but want to retain the benefits of the public cloud. They want a Cloud Operations Model, for the scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency but on premises.
Resources to Get You Started
Crusoe Builds a Climate-aligned AI Cloud with Power for the Future
metalstack.cloud Offers Kubernetes as a Service
