Efficient, Agile Data Platform
For Any Cloud

From the inventors of NVMe/TCP, Lightbits is software‑defined, disaggregated block storage for private, edge, and public clouds.

Any I/O Intensive
Application Environment.
Any Cloud.

Benefits of Disaggregated Storage for Cloud-Native Applications

Scale compute and storage independently
Uses existing TCP/IP network, runs on any standard hardware
Single storage cluster can service multiple tenants and heterogeneous application environments
High IOPs, consistent low latency
High storage utilization, both capacity and performance
Storage-based replication and recovery
Intelligent Flash Management and rich data services, better flash endurance, lower TCO

Native VMware Support

Certified with VMware vSphere 7 Update 3
Integrated with VMware vCenter for single Pane-Of-Glass management of the entire storage infrastructure directly from vCenter

High Performance and Consistent Low Latency

Ideal primary tier storage for database and analytics workloads
High IOPS and throughput - 4.7M IOPS, 22GB/s
Low latency - 160μs latency, reduced tail latency
High I/O performance for container-based workloads

Rich Data Services

Thin provisioning
Elastic RAID
Data reduction/ compression
Data replication across multiple nodes
Snapshots and clones for persistent volumes

Container-Optimized

Kubernetes CSI plugin; seamless support for microservices
1:100s; Lightbits cluster to Kubernetes clusters
Storage for containers within the same or adjacent cluster to the application
Multi-tenancy

No Speciality Networks Needed

Works on standard Ethernet networks & NICs
No RDMA configuration required on the network switches

Application Scalability

Better database performance and response time
50% reduction in cost compared to local flash
3x increase in flash utilization
Reduce Opex by 10-15x

Native VMware Support

Certified with VMware vSphere 7 Update 3
Integrated with VMware vCenter for single Pane-Of-Glass management of the entire storage infrastructure directly from vCenter

High Performance and Consistent Low Latency

Ideal primary tier storage for database and analytics workloads
High IOPS and throughput – 4.7M IOPS, 22GB/s
Low latency – 160μs latency, reduced tail latency
High I/O performance for container-based workloads

Rich Data Services

Thin provisioning
Elastic RAID
Data reduction/ compression
Data replication across multiple nodes
Snapshots and clones for persistent volumes

Container-Optimized

Kubernetes CSI plugin; seamless support for microservices
1:100s; Lightbits cluster to Kubernetes clusters
Storage for containers within the same or adjacent cluster to the application

No Speciality Networks Needed

Works on standard Ethernet networks & NICs
No RDMA configuration required on the network switches

Application Scalability

Better database performance and response time
50% reduction in cost compared to local flash
3x increase in flash utilization
Reduce Opex by 10-15x

NVMe/TCP Extends NVMe Across the Entire Data Center with TCP/IP Fabric

NVMe® was designed for high-performance direct-attached PCIe SSDs and was later expanded with NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF™) to support a hyperscale remote pool of SSDs. The industry has widely accepted that this new NVMe-oF model will replace Direct Attached Storage (DAS) and become the default protocol for disaggregated storage in cloud infrastructure. NVMe over TCP (NVMe/TCP) is the most powerful NVMe-oF technology, providing high performance with reduced deployment costs and design complexity. NVMe/TCP extends NVMe across the entire data center using simple and efficient TCP/IP fabric.