SQL, NoSQL, and MySQL databases are the backbone of major enterprises today, and they often require a finely tuned, high-performance storage infrastructure to enable them. Now, with economic and supply chain challenges and the push for faster innovation and digital transformation, organizations are considering migrating these storage-intensive workloads from on-premises to the public cloud. While migrating non-critical applications to the cloud may be straightforward, replicating a high-performance platform for SQL database performance in the cloud can be complex. Until now.
This blog presents a helpful checklist that Storage Architects and Database Administrators (DBAs) should consider when migrating these database workloads to the cloud. It also introduces Lightbits’ unique architecture, built from the ground up to deliver SAN capabilities in the cloud and help enterprises migrate these storage-intensive workloads. Organizations running these workloads can achieve greater efficiency, lower TCO, and performance equivalent to local flash with Lightbits on Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure.
A Checklist to the Cloud:
Lightbits Benefits
Lightbits offers a data storage platform for high-I/O workloads on the public cloud, providing SAN capabilities on both AWS and Azure. It delivers higher performance with lower latency than native storage offerings, predictable and lower costs, comprehensive data services included in the software license, simple provisioning, and scalability across multi-AZ environments.
Performance Figures
SLOB benchmark results demonstrate Lightbits’ superior performance compared to io2.bx (AWS EBS) and Ultra Disk (Azure) in supporting storage-intensive database workloads. In real-world workload testing, Lightbits delivers up to 4.6X more IOPS than the best available cloud-native storage on AWS (EBS io2 Block Express), which reaches its limits at around 250K IOPS. Lightbits on Azure can deliver almost 1M sustained IOPS at 8KB, while Ultra Disk is limited to only 80K IOPS at 8KB. These benchmark tests show that Lightbits delivers significantly higher IOPS than native storage offerings while also delivering 2.5X cost savings for database workloads. Thus, making Lightbits an ideal solution for these workloads in the cloud.
Conclusion
Lightbits enables the migration of storage-intensive workloads − SQL, NoSQL, and MySQL − to the cloud. The Lightbits data platform addresses the challenges of delivering high performance, flexibility, and essential data services, making it a cost-effective choice for storage-intensive workloads. Migrating to the cloud with Lightbits empowers Storage Architects and DBAs to leverage the cloud’s efficiency, agility, performance, and scalability, which can catalyze accelerated innovation and digital transformation.
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