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Lightbits and HPE A new style of partnering

Lightbits and HPE partner to deliver a jointly engineered high performance cloud data platform that expands capabilities for organizations pursuing more efficient, agile, scalable, and software-defined storage infrastructure.

Solution Brief

Lightbits Software-Defined Storage on HPE ProLiant and Alletra Servers

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Lightbits Labs are collaborating in a fresh new way to bring increased value to customers like you. As a member of the HPE Partner Ready for Technology Partner Program, Lightbits block storage is validated on HPE ProLiant and Alletra servers to help our joint customers with AI, analytics, and transactional workloads in financial services accelerate innovation and extract value from their data.
When combined with HPE ProLiant DL Gen10 Plus or HPE Alletra 4110 Storage Servers the Lightbits cloud data platform delivers a high performance, scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient solution that is superior to other block storage alternatives. Lightbits has also been validated in VMware, Kubernetes, and OpenStack environments ensuring rich functionality that meets the specific needs of different workloads and deployment scenarios.

Storage-Rich Solution

The system delivers high-performance in a compact form factor to tackle performance-sensitive workloads at scale like Artificial Intelligence (AI), cloud, log, and analytics.

Flexibility

The software-defined architecture is ideal for hybrid deployments with broad ecosystem support for Kubernetes, OpenStack, and VMware.

Future-Proof Your Datacenter

Modernize aging legacy IT architecture, reduce your datacenter footprint, lower your storage costs, and deliver reliable services to multiple business units.

Use Cases

CSPs, Private and Edge Clouds

  • Cloud services: IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
  • Cloud infrastructure for container and virtualized environments

Latency Sensitive, High Transaction Workloads

  • Traditional FinTech
  • Log processing (ELK, Splunk)
  • Apache Kafka streams

Latency and Performance Sensitive Databases

  • Single instance database (MySQL, Postgres, Maria DB)
  • Distributed/Replicated databases (MongoDB, CockroachDB, Cassandra)

eCommerce

  • Relational databases (Oracle, mySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB)
  • NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra, Couchbase)
  • CDN

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HPE ProLiant Servers and Lightbits Cloud Data Platform
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