Storage Systems Engineered for Performance & Efficiency

LightOS and LightInferra: industry-leading software-defined block storage and the first KV cache engine optimized for AI. The definitive duo delivering unmatched high performance and maximum hardware efficiency for LLM inference, analytics, and transactional workloads at scale.

Trusted by the world’s leading organizations
SOFTWARE-DEFINED STORAGE SOLUTIONS

NEXT-GEN BLOCK STORAGE

Lightbits Labs invented NVMe over TCP, the future protocol for high-performance data access on low-latency networks delivering award-winning, disaggregated software-defined block storage that modernizes your outdated infrastructure:

  • Slashes TCO: optimizing OpEx/CapEx

  • Dramatically Shrinks Your Datacenter Footprint: supporting sustainability initiatives

Our proven reference architectures are built on industry-standard commodity hardware, not proprietary frameworks. This approach delivers:

  • Unrivaled Flexibility: Deploy with confidence on the hardware you choose.
  • Zero Vendor Lock-In: Gain total architectural freedom and control.
BOTTOM LINE

Ruthless Simplicity and Predictable Economics

Ceph storage comes with a high operational tax: complexity and heavy SRE time. For today’s, performance‑dense private clouds, Lightbits is the better path for simplicity, lower costs and NVMe speed. Lightbits block storage delivers high performance by design and when paired with Arctera InfoScale delivers day‑2 operational simplicity.

  • Leaner NVMe/TCP Stack
  • Predictable Day-2 Ops
  • 16X Better Performance
  • 50% Lower TCO
Ceph Storage Alternative

Recognized as a Leading
Software-Defined Storage Vendor

Lightbits Data Platform

“The solution is rock solid, out-performing all other solutions and the support is great as well.”

Business Manager – IT Services

Customer Stories

Organizations that use Lightbits are reaping the benefits of software-defined storage for greater implementation flexibility, simplified operations, better application performance, and optimized hardware resource utilization for lower storage costs.

AI workloads demand far more than raw capacity—they require predictable low latency and consistent performance at scale. Lightbits enables us to grow our business by delivering highly performant, premium services using open, software-defined, NVMe-based infrastructure that aligns with our operational strategy.

Abhimanyu Bhatter, Co-Founder and Associate Vice President of Technology, Coredge
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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.

Mike McDonald, Product Manager, Crusoe
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With Lightbits as part of our platform we can achieve 16 times the performance at half the cost of AI Clouds from American hyperscalers.

Arnold Juffer, CEO and Founder, Nebul
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….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.

Stefan Majer, CTO, x-cellent technologies GmbH
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I can absolutely recommend using Lightbits over Ceph, much simpler, way faster, a perfect match for Kubernetes and container workloads.

Stefan Majer, CTO, x-cellent technologies GmbH

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.

Gero Skopinski, Head of Cloud Solutions, FI-TS
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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.

David Xie, Chief Product Officer, Zenlayer
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Lightbits software-defined storage solution running on standard servers is at least 33% lower latency at ½ the cost of proprietary AFAs.

Dan Pollak, CTO, Data Storage Service

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.

Frank Zhang, Founder and CEO, ZStack
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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.

Zac Smith, Managing Director, Equinix Metal

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.

Alexey Stolyar, Development Director, ICC

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.

David Power, CTO, Define Tech
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Supercharge Your GPUs and Your Clouds with Lightbits

Unmatched Scalability

LightOS enables 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). While LightInferra, enables almost infinite memory per agent; scaling context windows from 32K to 1M tokens and more.

Eliminate Processing Bottlenecks

From Databases to LLMs: Deliver sub-millisecond consistent latency for transactional apps with LightOS, and eliminate GPU stalls in long-context AI inference with LightInferra’s 3X better throughput and latency over nearest competitor.

Unrivaled HA & Security for Every Workload

Seamless storage server failover that ensures continuous service, safeguards business continuity, and protects your business from data loss. Maintain strict tenant isolation with end-to-end data encryption as your environment scales.

Exceptional Cost-Efficiency

Slash storage TCO by 50% with software-defined efficiency. HBM performance at NVMe cost. Lower CapEx and OpEx by increasing hardware utilization.

Future-Proof Your Data Stack

Lightbits Labs solutions provide a flexible architecture designed to adapt to rapid market shifts in hardware availability. Deeply integrated with popular orchestration environments. GPU and SSD agnostic.

Explore Solutions

AI Inference

Service Providers & Private Clouds

Kubernetes

VMware

Public Cloud

AI Inference

For AI Inference & LLM

fully optimized KV cache engine

Scale your GenAI platform — faster Inference, massive context windows, shorten time-to-insight and innovation.

LightInferra™ is a major advancement in LLM infrastructure, delivering end-to-end optimizations across the LLM framework and KV cache. It effectively breaks the memory wall enabling practically infinite KV cache capacity through smart tiering, sophisticated pre-fetching algorithms and optimized scheduling.

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Service Providers & Private Clouds

For Service Providers and Private Clouds

optimized price/performance value for open source environments

Whether your building a cloud from the ground up or deploy one using popular open-source orchestration environments, such as Kubernetes, OpenShift, and OpenStack, Lightbits will power any application in your virtualized and containerized environments with optimal price/performance value, enabling your growth while simplifying data storage management.

Realize the full benefits of a cloud operations model: flexibility, cost- and resource-efficiency, and scalability without sacrificing high performance.

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Kubernetes

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.

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VMware

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.

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Public Cloud

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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Resources to Get You Started

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Video

Lightbits LightOS Introduction
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Video

Lightbits LightInferra Introduction
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Whitepaper

Guide to Infrastructure Modernization for CSPs and Service Platforms
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