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SOFTWARE-DEFINED STORAGE SOLUTIONS

NEXT-GEN BLOCK STORAGE

Award-winning, disaggregated software-defined block storage, LightOS, modernizes your outdated infrastructure:

  • Slashes TCO: optimizing OpEx/CapEx

  • Dramatically Shrinks Your Datacenter Footprint: supporting sustainability initiatives

Our proven reference architectures are built on industry-standard commodity hardware, not proprietary frameworks. This approach delivers:

  • Unrivaled Flexibility: Deploy with confidence on the hardware you choose.
  • Zero Vendor Lock-In: Gain total architectural freedom and control.
BOTTOM LINE

Ruthless Simplicity and Predictable Economics

Ceph storage comes with a high operational tax: complexity and heavy SRE time. For today’s, performance‑dense private clouds, LightOS is the better path for simplicity, lower costs and NVMe speed. LightOS block storage delivers high performance by design and day‑2 operational simplicity.

  • Leaner NVMe/TCP Stack
  • Predictable Day-2 Ops
  • 16X Better Performance
  • 50% Lower TCO
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The Ultimate Flexibility, LightOS Powers Any Application on Any Platform

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QUICK FACTS

What deployment models does LightOS support (on-prem, cloud, hybrid)?

  • On-Prem Support: Deploy as software-defined storage on any commodity x86 servers in your own private data center on Bare Metal, VMware ESXi, and more.
  • Public Cloud Support: Native availability on AWS (via Marketplace) and Microsoft Azure (as a Managed Application), and Azure VMware Solution (AVS).
  • Hybrid Cloud Strategy: Offers license portability between on-prem and public clouds, allowing you to migrate workloads at your own pace while maintaining consistent storage management.
  • Orchestration Environments: Kubernetes (CSI), KubeVirt, OpenShift-V, OpenStack, and more.

How does LightOS improve hardware efficiency

  • Intelligent Flash Management optimizes SSDs for ultimate price-performance value
  • Boosts performance: high throughput, lower latency
  • Extends flash endurance by 20x

How does LightOS deliver HA and resiliency

  • No service disruption after node or drive loss
  • Non-disruptive rolling software upgrades
  • 3-way replication across failure domains for DR
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How LightOS Compares to Legacy Systems

LightOS vs DAS

LightOS vs SAN

LightOS vs HCI

LightOS vs AWS EBS

LightOS vs DAS

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LightOS vs SAN

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LightOS vs HCI

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LightOS vs AWS EBS

A High-Performance ‘SAN in the Cloud’

Fastest block storage available on AWS offering high performance with consistent low latency

Predictable low cost with pay on a consumption basis, not provisioned IOPS or volumes requiring fewer VMs which can reduce app licensing costs

Flexible so you can linearly scale performance and capacity independently

Like your “SAN in the Cloud” unifying storage provisioning and bulk volume management that includes enterprise data services (snapshots, replication)

Implement a hybrid cloud strategy with license portability between private and public clouds

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