Lightbits Storage
for OpenStack
Build Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) with the Fastest, Most Scalable OpenStack Storage Solution.
Lightbits redefines how storage is managed and delivered in OpenStack cloud environments.
Lightbits is the best storage for OpenStack clouds, tailored for organizations seeking to modernize their data centers for efficiency and flexibility to support a diversity of applications, no matter what the requirements are. Lightbits software-defined, high-performance NVMe/TCP storage for OpenStack can be run on commodity hardware and seamlessly integrates into your desired architecture for faster deployment of cloud services.
Engineered for high-performance, low latency, resiliency, and elasticity Lightbits enables end-to-end NVMe and will rapidly scale in lockstep with your business demands. The software delivers the best price/performance for OpenStack cloud while delivering a solid user experience.
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.
Rapid OpenStack Deployment and Expansion
Spin up new OpenStack shared storage services in minutes and support tens of thousands of workloads.
Best Price/Performance for
OpenStack Private Clouds
Reduce your TCO by over 50% compared to Ceph Storage, achieve up to 4.4M IOPS per Rack Unit, and use commodity hardware. 
OpenStack Block Storage
for Any Application
Lightbits OpenStack Cinder driver enables seamless integration into your cloud while high availability, reliability and QoS ensure consistent user experience, making Lightbits an ideal OpenStack storage solution for mission critical applications. Ceph Storage Augmentation for OpenStack Clouds
With open source, software defined architecture you have the flexibility to choose either footprint for expansion–Lightbits or Ceph Storage. Procurement and maintenance are simple with a single server specification and set of hardware.
While Ceph offers open-source advantages and unified storage protocols, Lightbits is uniquely engineered to deliver 16x better performance, efficiency, and operational simplicity at scale under demanding production workloads, such as SQL, NoSQL, real-time, and vector databases.
Lightbits solves the unique storage demands of OpenStack and KVM environments. With seamless integrations, Lightbits meets the demands of your growing KVM environment. Lightbits clusters scale out block storage 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 KVM-based applications and the most popular orchestrators.
Lightbits Software-Defined Storage for OpenStack Clouds
Lightbits OpenStack Cinder driver provisions and mounts highly available, replicated Lightbits volumes as NVMe devices to OpenStack compute nodes. The orchestration and management of data is controlled directly from OpenStack ensuring the seamless integration with any OpenStack cloud environment.
