Future-Proof Your On-Prem Cloud: High-Performance Storage for Block Workloads and AI KVCache
Whether you are building data infrastructure from the ground up or augmenting your existing system, Lightbits simplifies storage management and provides industry-leading price-performance value for every virtualized and containerized workload. From AI checkpointing to Persistent Volume Claims in OpenShift and Kubernetes, Lightbits ensures your data infrastructure scales effortlessly while maximizing hardware utilization and performance.
LightOS: engineered for high-performance block workloads, it delivers industry-leading performance and cost-efficiency at scale—integrating seamlessly with Kubernetes, KubeVirt, OpenShift, OpenStack, VMware, and more.
LightInferra provides a specialized storage architecture designed to optimize KVCache for AI inference and RAG—integrating seamlessly with vLLM, LMCache, TensorLLM, SGLang environments, and for operators building Dynamo-oriented inference infrastructure where orchestration, scheduling, and service-level reliability are first-class concerns.
Redefining storage performance and hardware efficiency
✔ Unmatched parallel performance
✔ Unleashing peak performance for every PVC
✔ Effortless live migration with KubeVirt
✔ Seamless multi-tenancy and encryption
✔ Scalability, resiliency, and cost-effectiveness
Seamless integration 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
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For Cloud Service Providers
unmatched price/performance efficiency
A single Lightbits cluster provides multi-tenancy for multiple heterogeneous environments. Lightbits Quality of Service (QoS) ensures your users won’t notice any service impacts.
For Financial Services
lowest latency at scale for faster transactions and analytics
Lightbits is used by some of the world’s largest financial institutions, because it delivers the industry’s best performance, lowest consistent latency, availability, and cost-efficiency to power the most demanding real-time analytics, and transaction-heavy workloads in financial services.
For AI & LLM Inference
break the GPU memory wall
Extract the full value from your LLM Inference and optimize RAG databases. Achieve at least 3X better Queries/Token per Second and 280X better TTFT and TPOT resulting in 3X lower TCO and power consumption, and massive context windows for vLLM, TensorRT and SGLang.
For e-Commerce
lowest latency at scale for better customer digital experiences
Effortlessly and economically scale your eCommerce platform in response to business demand ensuring 24/7 availability and time to market for deploying new services, while accelerating data collection and online transactions.
Software-Defined Storage for Private Clouds
Purpose-built for NVMe over TCP, LightOS beats Ceph Block Storage performance by 16X while lowering TCO for demanding workloads at scale.
Why Choose to Build an On-Premises Cloud Data Platform
What are the Benefits of an On-Premises Cloud Data Platform
What is an On-Premises Cloud Data Platform
Why Choose to Build an On-Premises Cloud Data Platform
Why would an organization build an on-premises cloud data platform instead of using the public cloud?
Many organizations opt for on-premises solutions for reasons such as:
- Data sovereignty: Keeping sensitive data within the organization’s control.
- Compliance: Meeting strict regulatory requirements that mandate on-site data storage.
- Performance: Ensuring low-latency access to data.
- Customization: Tailoring the platform to specific needs without third-party limitations.
What are the Benefits of an On-Premises Cloud Data Platform
What are the benefits of managing an on-premises cloud data platform?
Complete Data Control
Provides full ownership and control over your data, infrastructure, and security policies.
Regulatory Compliance
Simplifies adherence to stringent data residency and industry-specific compliance standards (e.g., GDPR).
Customizability and Integration
Offers flexibility to design and optimize the infrastructure to meet your unique business needs.
Predictable Costs
Avoids fluctuating operational expenses common in public cloud platforms by leveraging a fixed-cost infrastructure. Software-defined, open-source solutions offers cost efficiency, especially for performance-intensive workloads at scale.
Performance and Latency
Delivers high-performance capabilities and reduced latencies supporting applications requiring real-time responses without dependency on external networks.
Scalability with Cloud-Like Features
Combines the scalability and automation of cloud with the stability and predictability of on-premises systems. You can leverage hybrid implementations to scale workloads to the cloud when necessary.
What is an On-Premises Cloud Data Platform
What is an on-premises cloud data platform, and how is it different from a public cloud?
An on-premises cloud data platform is a cloud-like data center infrastructure model that is deployed and managed within a company’s data center. Unlike hyperscale public cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP), an on-premises cloud offers full control over your data, hardware, and software, while delivering similar public cloud benefits like scalability and automation.
Cloud architecture is gaining significant momentum in data centers as many organizations are repatriating workloads on the public cloud back to on-premises but want to retain the benefits of the public cloud. They want a Cloud Operations Model, for the scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency but on premises.