Lightbits on Microsoft Azure

It’s no secret that storage-intensive workloads have been among the last to migrate to the public cloud. While cloud storage is convenient to deploy and easy to manage, many enterprises have found that high-performance block storage options are unpredictably expensive, and often do not maintain the required low latency as application demand increases.

At the same time, cloud storage options often lack the simplified provisioning and enterprise data services of their on-premises SAN. This whitepaper presents Lightbits as an Azure Managed Application solution that enables the migration of storage-intensive workloads to the public cloud.