Lightbits Labs
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Lightbits Labs is a software company based in San Jose, California.[1][2]
History
[edit]Lightbits Labs was founded in 2016 by Avigdor Willenz, Eran Kirzner, Kam Eshghi, Muli Ben-Yehuda, and Sagi Grimberg with an initial funding of $10 million.[3][4] Initially, Lightbits worked on developing a platform that uses NVMe/TCP standard to improve operations between NVMe and controller devices.[2]
In March 2019, Lightbits Labs received $50 million investment from Dell EMC, Cisco, Micron Technology and others.[4] In November 2019, NVM Express approved the NVMe/TCP storage protocol that was jointly developed by Lightbits. In the same year, Lightbits also released storage software capable of running NVMe over TCP.[1]
In September 2020, Intel made an investment in Lightbits.[5][6] Later, Lightbits also formed a partnership with Intel to develop a disaggregated storage platform for data centers.[7][8][9]
In June 2022, Lightbits received $42 million in a funding round, including from JP Morgan Chase.[10] In October 2022, Lenovo Group also invested in Lightbits.[11]
Products
[edit]Lightbits develops software-defined storage that uses the NVMe/TCP standard.[10] It can distribute NVMe data transfer queues across multiple parallel connections, resulting in access latencies of 100 to 120 microseconds, or approximately 200 microseconds when using commodity servers.[10][8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Let there be Lightbits: Hardware-software tag team touts block-level storage at SSD latencies • The Register".
- ^ a b Wiggers, Kyle (March 12, 2019). "Lightbits Labs raises $50 million for software-defined 'disaggregated' server technology".
- ^ "Lightbits Labs Ltd - Company Profile and News". Bloomberg.com.
- ^ a b "Data center co Lightbits Labs raises $50m". Globes. December 3, 2019.
- ^ "Intel invests in Israeli co Lightbit Labs". Globes. September 29, 2020.
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- ^ "Intel teams up with Lightbits Labs to maximize data center profitability". ZDNET.
- ^ a b "Lightbits offers NVMe-over-TCP at 5x less than NVMe-over-FC et al | Computer Weekly". ComputerWeekly.com.
- ^ "Intel and Lightbits Labs team to improve storage performance". Network World.
- ^ a b c Wiggers, Kyle (June 28, 2022). "Lightbits Labs lands $42M to speed up server data transfers".
- ^ Kimball, Matt. "Lenovo Doubles Down On The Datacenter As ThinkSystem Turns 30". Forbes.