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Lightbits Labs (Lightbits®), the innovation leader in software-defined, disaggregated, NVMe® over TCP block storage, and Supermicro, a total IT Solution Provider, today announced groundbreaking benchmark results showcasing the exceptional performance, efficiency, and scalability of Lightbits software-defined storage with Supermicro’s CloudDC A+ Server powered by the AMD EPYC™ 9455 48-core processor. The results demonstrate the ability of Lightbits and Supermicro to jointly deliver high throughput, low latency, and massive scalability required for today’s most demanding enterprise workloads, including financial analytics, large-scale databases, high-speed AI training, and virtual machine orchestration using KubeVirt. The collaboration is strengthened by a newly released reference architecture that simplifies the deployment of high-performance, scalable Kubernetes data platforms using Lightbits with Supermicro and Intel®.

Lightbits Labs (Lightbits®), inventor of the NVMe® over TCP protocol natively designed into their high-performance block storage solution, today published a reference architecture (RA) with AMD, for the industry’s first scalable, highly available, disaggregated, software-defined storage solution that simplifies and accelerates Kubernetes infrastructure deployments. This game-changing solution delivers unmatched price/performance value, enabling a seamless path to application containerization and modernization, while making it easier to manage and scale infrastructure for high-performance and AI workloads.

Lightbits Labs (Lightbits®), the inventor of the NVMe® over TCP protocol offering next-gen software-defined storage for modern workloads, today announced record-breaking growth for Q1’25. This milestone reflects strong global demand for infrastructure modernization that models Cloud Operations enabled by high-performance block storage offering flexibility, reliability, and cost-efficiency at scale.

Lightbits Labs (Lightbits®), the creator of NVMe® over TCP and innovator of flexible, efficient, and resilient cloud data storage solutions, today announced they have joined the Mirantis partner program, a leading provider of open source-based infrastructure services and solutions. This collaboration brings together two industry pioneers to move customers from VMware to a more agile cloud infrastructure with dramatically improved performance and cost-efficiency at scale.

Lightbits Labs (Lightbits®), the creator of NVMe® over TCP and innovator of flexible, efficient, and resilient cloud data storage solutions, today announced Elastx Cloud Platform (ECP), a leading Swedish cloud service provider, has chosen Lightbits to power its OpenStack Cloud Service for enterprise customers throughout Scandinavia. The partnership sees Elastx leveraging Lightbits’ high-performance, low latency, scalable software-defined storage across OpenStack and Kubernetes clusters for a resilient, cost-effective cloud platform that provides customers with secure, sustainable multi-availability zones for mission-critical applications.

Lightbits®, the innovation leader in simple, flexible, and cost-efficient data platform solutions for any cloud, has announced that it has been accepted into the Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub, a program designed to enable organizations to ideate, develop, grow, and scale their offering on the Azure cloud platform by providing the necessary resources for every stage of their cloud-first journey.

Lightbits®, the innovation leader in simple, efficient, and agile data platform solutions for any cloud, today announced that it ended 2022 by increasing its average deal size and doubling its deal pipeline and install base. The company’s growth is fueled by enterprise organizations shifting to a cloud-first strategy, which according to Fortune Business Insights is projected to grow from $480B in 2022 to $1.7T by 2029, at a CAGR of 19.9%.1

Lightbits®, the first software-defined and architected for NVMe/TCP data platform for any cloud, today announced it has been assigned a patent (11,513,729) for “distributed write buffer for storage systems.” The Lightbits Data Platform offers a unique combination of scalable, clustered, architected for NVMe/TCP storage with rich-enterprise data services and Intelligent Flash Management (IFM) to simplify and accelerate analytics and database workloads. The innovation described in this patent takes Lightbits’ IFM feature a step further by distributing the reads and writes to all nodes in the cluster’s persistent memory to further improve the endurance of NVMe flash and provide faster response to the application I/Os. Customers use Lightbits to enable fast, reliable, and secure cloud services and run cloud-native applications with their existing orchestration environments OpenStack, VMware, and Kubernetes.

AWS re:Invent--Lightbits®, the first software-defined and architected for NVMe/TCP data platform for any cloud, today announced that it will be demonstrating its next-generation block storage for AWS at the AWS re:Invent Marketplace Pavilion that will run from November 28 to December 2.

Lightbits®, the first software-defined and architected for NVMe® over TCP (NVMe®/TCP) data platform for any cloud, today announced that x-cellent technologies, a German-based technology consultancy, will integrate their high-performance, persistent storage running on Intel® high-performance technologies into their metalstack.cloud infrastructure. metalstack.cloud is a new cloud service offering that was initiated by x-cellent technologies on base of Open-Source solutions like Gardener as an alternative to public cloud solutions. metalstack.cloud targets customers and developers who require a secure tech platform to run Kubernetes as a Service for their applications from different industries and market domains, such as manufacturing companies, software companies, consulting companies, and startups. The service is produced and operated in Germany.

Lightbits®, the first software-defined and architected for NVMe/TCP data platform for any cloud, today announced it has been assigned a patent (11,467,730) for “system and method for managing data storage on non-volatile memory media.” The innovation described in this patent strengthens Lightbits’ position as a leader in offering high-performance block storage. The Lightbits software, which is architected for NAND flash, is optimized to leverage the full benefits of quad-level cell (QLC) NAND SSDs, providing performance and density at a cost-optimized form factor. The innovation described in this patent takes Lightbits’ Intelligent Flash Management technology a step further through a QLC-optimized caching policy that only writes to the flash media when it is the right time to do so. By improving flash endurance the Lightbits Data Platform offers customers a highly optimized price/performance solution for I/O-intensive workloads in any orchestration environment OpenStack, VMware, and Kubernetes, and on any cloud.

Lightbits®, the first software-defined and architected for NVMe/TCP data platform for any cloud, today announced that it has bolstered its sales leadership with the appointment of Rex Manseau as its VP of Sales for North America.

Intel Innovation– Lightbits®, the first software-defined and architected for NVMe/TCP data platform for any cloud, will be conducting a joint product demonstration with Intel® at the upcoming Intel® Innovation event, taking place September 27-28, 2022 in San Jose. The demonstration will highlight Lightbits software-defined, NVMe/TCP storage cluster providing high-performance block storage to compute servers equipped with Intel® IPU E2000, thereby enabling the freeing up of CPU cores to maximize the customer’s revenue without sacrificing application performance. The demo will highlight the increased infrastructure efficiency and flexibility that results from the on-demand provisioning of remote NVMe storage.

Lightbits®, the first software-defined and architected for NVMe/TCP data platform for any cloud, today announced it has been assigned a patent (11,442,658) for “system and method for selecting a write unit size for a block storage device.” Different SSDs behave best under different conditions depending on their model and internal architecture. A key parameter affecting their behavior is the write-unit size, i.e., the amount of data written to the SSD as one “chunk”. Using the methods described in this patent, Lightbits determines the optimal write unit size for a given SSD, writing to that SSD in such a way that induces it to work as close as possible to its optimal working point. The innovation described in this patent enhances Lightbits’ already existing Intelligent Flash Management technology that offers customers a highly optimized performance, consistent low latency and cost-efficient cloud data platform that improves flash endurance.

Lightbits®, the first software-defined and NVMe/TCP architected complete data platform for any cloud, today announced it has been assigned a patent (11,385,798) for “method and system for application aware, management of write operations on non-volatile storage.”

Lightbits®, the inventors of NVMe®/TCP and the first software-defined complete data platform for any cloud, announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Lightbits Labs to its 2022 Emerging Vendors list in the Storage category. This annual list recognizes the fast-rising technology vendors that have exhibited a commitment to driving positive change and continuous growth in the IT channel by delivering innovative, cutting-edge solutions.

Lightbits®, the first software-defined complete data platform for any cloud, today announced that Supermicro, a global leader in high-performance computing, storage, networking solutions, and green computing technology, is now an authorized Lightbits solution partner. The Supermicro SuperServer family, featuring the Lightbits NVMe®/TCP scale-out clustered storage solution, are pre-integrated servers with NVMe drives and networking that enables the rapid deployment of scalable, high-performance cloud-native storage.

Lightbits®, the first software-defined NVMe® data platform for any cloud, today announced a preview of Lightbits on Amazon Web Services (AWS). When used with Amazon Storage Optimized Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances that leverage Intel® Xeon Scalable processors with built-in AI accelerators or AWS Graviton, Lightbits delivers enterprise-grade, resilient block storage that is easy to use and provides greater cost-efficiency compared to other cloud-based block storage solutions. It offers great value for enterprise organizations who want to right-size their block storage on AWS while boosting performance and operating IO-intensive database and analytics applications.

Lightbits®, the first software-defined NVMe® data platform for any cloud, today announced that it has raised $42 million in growth capital. New investor Atreides Management led the round, alongside J.P. Morgan, Valor Equity Partners, Eyal Ofer’s O.G. Tech, founder and chairman of Pacific Century Group (PCG) Richard Li, existing investors, and others. With this financing, the company has raised more than $100 million since its founding in 2016.

Lightbits®, the first software-defined and NVMe® data platform for any cloud, today announced that its board of directors has named world-renowned technology innovator and visionary Dr. Yoav Intrator to its advisory board.

Lightbits®, the first software-defined NVMe® data platform for any cloud, today announced that CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Charla Bunton-Johnson, VP of Global Channels and Alliances to its esteemed 2022 Women of the Channel list. In addition, Lightbits received its first 2022 CRN Partner Program Guide listing and is recognized again for providing innovative products and services to the IT channel in the CRN Storage 100 list in the Software-Defined Storage (SDS) category.

Lightbits®, the first software-defined and NVMe® data platform for any cloud, today announced that it has appointed Charla Bunton-Johnson as its new Vice President of Global Alliances and Channel. The role will be to drive growth velocity through the channel, forming and strengthening alliances that better enable partner success, and manage the firm’s global GoPurple program.

Lightbits®, the first software-defined NVMe® data platform for any cloud, today announced that the Lightbits Cloud Data Platform is available on VMware Marketplace. In addition to high performance and increased flexibility, Lightbits offers rich data services that result in highly resilient storage that extends across the entire virtualized platform.

Lightbits®, the first software-defined NVMe® data platform for any cloud, today announced that support for Lightbits will be included as part of OpenStack Yoga®, the latest release of the OpenStack open standard cloud computing platform. With Lightbits, OpenStack clusters will finally have access to software-defined block storage that delivers cloud-native, high-performance, scale-out, and highly available NVMe/TCP storage. Further, Lightbits has committed to supporting open cloud environments by ensuring interoperability with and availability through all OpenStack future releases.

Lightbits Labs®, the first software-defined NVMe® data platform for any cloud, announced today that its global partner program, GoPurple, is acknowledged by CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, in its 2022 Partner Program Guide. CRN’s annual Partner Program Guide is the ultimate list of the most notable partner programs from industry-leading technology vendors that provide innovative products and services through the IT channel.

Lightbits®, the first software-defined NVMe® data platform for any cloud, today announced that it has been selected as winner of the “Data Storage Innovation of the Year” award in the third annual Data Breakthrough Awards program conducted by Data Breakthrough, an independent market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies, and products in the global data technology market today.

Lightbits Labs® (Lightbits®), the first software-defined, NVMe® Complete Data Platform for any cloud and on the tailwind of its tremendous growth in 2021, today announced the appointment of Thomas A. DeLorenzo as its Vice President of Sales, growing the company’s sales leadership position and readying it to take advantage of future growth across the Eastern US region.

Lightbits Labs® (Lightbits®), the first software-defined and NVMe® data platform for any cloud, is pleased to announce that CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Kam Eshghi, Chief Strategy Officer at Lightbits, to its 2022 Channel Chiefs list. CRN’s annual Channel Chiefs project identifies top IT channel vendor executives who continually demonstrate expertise, influence, and innovation in channel leadership.

Lightbits Labs® (Lightbits®), the first software-defined, NVMe® Complete Data Platform for any cloud, ended 2021 doubling its install base, increasing its average deal size, and increasing revenue on a tailwind of IT organizations turning to cloud solutions to enable simplicity, agility, and cost-efficiency.

Lightbits Labs® (Lightbits®), the first software-defined and NVMe®-based data platform for any cloud, is pleased to announce it has been named a winner in the 2022 BIG Innovation Awards presented by the Business Intelligence Group.

Lightbits Labs® (Lightbits®), a leader in NVMe®-based, scalable and software-defined elastic block storage for private and edge clouds, today announced that it has entered into a partnership agreement with Define Tech, a global independent software vendor (ISV) for cloud-native computing in finance, life sciences, broadcast and media, and high-performance computing (HPC).

Lightbits Labs® (Lightbits®), a leader in NVMe®-based, scalable and software-defined elastic block storage for private and edge clouds, today announced two key additions to its leadership team with Rick Gouveia as Vice President of Sales and Pete Brey as Vice President of Product Marketing.

Lightbits Labs® (Lightbits®), a leader in NVMe®-based, scalable and software-defined elastic block storage for private and edge clouds, is announcing that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Lightbits as a Finalist for the 2021 CRN Tech Innovator Awards.

Intel ON – Lightbits Labs® (Lightbits®), a leader in NVMe®-based, scalable and software-defined elastic block storage for private and edge clouds, will be conducting a joint product demonstration with Intel at the upcoming Intel Innovation event, part of the Intel ON Event Series, taking place October 27-28, 2021. The demonstration will showcase Lightbits LightOS® providing remote storage services to storage-less servers equipped with Intel’s Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU), providing Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) with a disaggregated storage solution for IPU-enabled hosts.

VMworld – Lightbits Labs™, a leader in NVMe-optimized, scalable and software-defined elastic block storage for private and edge clouds, today announced that they will jointly present a virtual breakout session, “Cloud Everywhere Transformation: NVMe/TCP Operating Models on Data Center and Cloud,” at VMworld 2021 with Intel® and VMware®. The session will reveal how Intel, VMware, and Lightbits help their customers deploy simple, efficient NVMe/TCP-based infrastructure services. To register or learn more about the session, click here.

VMworld – Lightbits Labs® (Lightbits®), a leader in NVMe-based, scalable and software-defined elastic block storage that is fully optimized on Intel hardware for private and edge clouds, today announced that it has successfully completed a rigorous certification of LightOS® with VMware vSphere® 7 Update 3 and will be listed on the VMware Compatibility Guide. LightOS software-defined storage, fueled by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with built in AI accelerators, Intel Optane Persistent memory (PMem) and 100Gb Intel Ethernet 800 Series Network Adapters, offers the ultimate in performance, resilience, and scalability for VMware vSphere® while lowering cost.

Lightbits Labs™ (Lightbits), a leader in NVMe-optimized, software-defined elastic block storage for private and edge clouds, today announced it has been assigned a patent (11,09,3408) for “a system and method for optimizing write amplification of non-volatile memory storage media.”

Lightbits Labs™, a leader in NVMe-optimized, scalable and software-defined elastic block storage for private and edge clouds, today announced that it has been named to the 2021 Big50 Startup Report, which spotlights 50 high-upside startups that have gained a foothold in fast-growth tech sector and are poised to upend the status quo in a range of industries. The startups featured in the 2021 Big50 are the best of the best typically making a big splash in funding, acquisition or successful IPO.

Lightbits Labs™, the pioneer and leader in NVMe™ over TCP (NVMe/TCP) software-defined storage, today announced it has been assigned a patent (11,03,6626) for “a method and system to determine an optimal over-provisioning ratio.”