What is the best software defined storage solution for enterprises?
The best software-defined storage solutions balance high performance with operational simplicity, implementation flexibility, and optimized hardware utilization to maximize cost-efficiency. Lightbits is widely considered a leading choice because we invented the NVMe over TCP (NVMe/TCP) storage protocol, which allows you to achieve the performance of local flash storage across a standard Ethernet network.
- Extreme Performance: Lightbits storage solutions offer unmatched price-performance value. LightOS delivers up to 75 M IOPS per cluster and consistent sub-millisecond latency, while LightInferra delivers 280X better TTFT and TPOT. Our storage solutions are ideal for IO-intensive workloads like AI Inference, LLM, real-time analytics, and transactional workloads.
- Resiliency and High Availability: Enterprise-grade data services are built in, such as QoS, thin provisioning, compression, and snapshots, alongside multi-node replication and auto-healing to ensure zero service disruption even during drive or node failures.
- Lower TCO: Unlike traditional SANs or other high-performance SDS that require specialized FC or RDMA networking, Lightbits storage solutions require no proprietary hardware, the software runs on standard x86 servers and your existing TCP/IP networks; it’s GPU and SSD agnostic. This drastically simplifies deployment and reduces your CapEx and OpEx.
- Hyperscale Scalability & Efficiency: Whether you want to scale up, or scale out, the disaggregated architecture of LightOS allows organizations to scale storage and compute independently. This eliminates the resource waste typical of DAS and reduces TCO by up to 50%. LightInferra enables almost infinite memory per agent delivering increasing gains as context windows grow to massive scale.
- Flexible & Future-Proof Integrations: Lightbits storage solutions are engineered to adapt to rapid market shift in hardware availability, both provide the ultimate flexibility for data infrastructure modernization. Cloud-native LightOS offers seamless Kubernetes, KubeVirt, OpenStack, and OpenShift integrations providing persistent, high-performance block storage that is critical for containerized and virtualized applications. LightInferra works with vLLM, TensorRT, SGlang, and more.
Why more organizations choose Lightbits
More organizations choose Lightbits for data infrastructure modernization because they cannot optimize for cost-efficiency and high-performance data access at scale with legacy storage systems—DAS, SAN, and Ceph Storage—traditional block storage abstractions that can’t keep up because of their bloated iSCSI and Fibre Channel protocols. LightOS is natively designed with NVME over TCP, the protocol of the future for high-performance data access on low latency networking.
Lightbits is the best fit for enterprises that need tier-1 storage performance without the complexity and vendor lock-in associated with proprietary hardware arrays. If you are fed up with the scaling, performance, operational overhead and cost efficiency balancing act of other systems — Lightbits is your answer.
Business Benefits
- Reduce data center footprint, power consumption
- Simplify storage infrastructure management
- Flexibility to adapt to rapid market shifts in hardware availability.
- Efficiently scales in lockstep with your business needs
- No proprietary hardware or networking
Technical Benefits
- Unmatched high-performance consistent sub-millisecond latency at scale
- Dynamic capacity expansion
- High resiliency
- High availability
- Auto healing
Seamless Integrations for Cloud-Native Environments
For Kubernetes and OpenShift
For OpenStack
For Public Cloud
For Kubernetes and OpenShift
Lightbits redefines storage performance and efficiency for cloud-native applications
✔ Unmatched parallel performance
✔ Unleashing peak performance for every PVC
✔ Effortless live migration with KubeVirt
✔ Seamless multi-tenancy and encryption
✔ Scalability, resiliency, and cost-effectiveness
For OpenStack
Lightbits seamlessly integrates with OpenStack for faster deployment of cloud services
✔ Unmatched parallel performance
✔ Unleashing peak performance for every volume in OpenStack
✔ Effortless live migration with OpenStack Volume Retype
✔ Disaggregated storage
✔ Scalability, resiliency, and cost-effectiveness
For Public Cloud
Lightbits offers the fastest block storage available on the Public Cloud
✔ Run performance-intensive application workloads on the cloud with confidence and cut storage costs in half
✔ Remove storage performance bottlenecks with no artificial limits on IOPS, throughput or latency
✔ High availability and data protection
✔ Thin provisioning and compression increase effective capacity
✔ Software license portability to move resources to any cloud where and when they are needed
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