Lightbits Labs
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| Industry | Software |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2016 |
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| Headquarters | , United States |
Key people | Eran Kirzner (CEO) |
| Website | lightbitslabs |
Lightbits Labs is an American 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, Ofir Efrati, and Fabian Trumper with an initial funding of $10 million.[3][4] Initially, Lightbits invented and standardized NVMe/TCP standard and built the first commercial NVMe/TCP storage platform.[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 Mellor, Chris (12 Mar 2019). "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". VentureBeat.
- ^ "Lightbits Labs". Bloomberg.
- ^ a b "Data center co Lightbits Labs raises $50m". Globes. December 3, 2019.
- ^ Dor, Ofir (September 29, 2020). "Intel invests in Israeli co Lightbit Labs". Globes.
- ^ "com! professional trifft auf Professional System". September 25, 2024.
- ^ Osborne, Charlie (September 30, 2020). "Intel teams up with Lightbits Labs to maximize data center profitability". ZDNet.
- ^ a b Serra, Yann (15 August 2022). "Lightbits offers NVMe-over-TCP at 5x less than NVMe-over-FC et al". Computer Weekly.
- ^ "Intel and Lightbits Labs team to improve storage performance". Network World. October 2, 2020.
- ^ a b c Wiggers, Kyle (June 28, 2022). "Lightbits Labs lands $42M to speed up server data transfers". TechCrunch.
- ^ Kimball, Matt (Sep 30, 2022). "Lenovo Doubles Down On The Datacenter As ThinkSystem Turns 30". Forbes.