Migrate Storage-Intensive Applications to Azure with Confidence
Lightbits software delivers the most scalable, highest-performance block storage on Azure with the efficiency you need to control costs for your ever-growing cloud environment. With Lightbits, your performance-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 storage charges.
Reduce Azure Cloud Storage Costs.
Enterprise Data Services and High Availability on Azure Cloud
High-Performance Multi-Tenant Azure Cloud Storage
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 block storage solution 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.
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 on the Azure Cloud Advantages
Enterprise Features
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
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
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
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
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
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 |
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.
