Big Financial Services Firm Breaks Free from Storage Constraints

A large U.S.-based financial institution was facing a dilemma: stuck in a vendor-locked data infrastructure model built around SAN block storage, Dell, and NetApp, where every capacity upgrade or performance improvement came with strings attached—high hardware costs, rigid and monolithic node configurations, and network complexity. With storage and compute coupled, scaling was expensive and inefficient. Licensing and lifecycle management felt like a maze of dependencies. The way forward—introduce disaggregated, flexible, Ethernet-based storage to augment Dell and replace NetApp systems. Enter Lightbits.