Lightbits High-Performance and Scalable Block Storage on Azure

Lightbits delivers a scalable data platform that enables you to migrate storage-intensive workloads to Azure with confidence. With Lightbits you can provision persistent volumes with lightning-fast performance, consistent low latency, and the efficiency of a SAN. Lightbits includes essential data services in the software license, so you will not pay extra for snapshots, clones, thin provisioning, and more. With Lightbits you can experience the fastest storage available on Azure at an impressively low and predictable cost.

Product Overview

Lightbits is high-performance, scalable, disaggregated block storage that works with familiar orchestration environments such as Kubernetes and VMware, and plugs directly into Azure Virtual Machines (VMs):

1. Quick start: Easy to set up and manage. Start allocating data volumes in minutes.

2. Enterprise features: Attach volumes to any VM and enjoy the benefits of snapshots, clones, dynamic volume resizing, QoS, compression, and thin provisioning.

3. Data Protection and High Availability: synchronous 3-way replication for LRS and ZRS. Self-healing to automatically re-create new replicas as needed.

4. Scalable: dynamically scale out or shrink your cluster on demand.

5. Efficient: pay only for the VMs you deploy, with no additional costs for provisioned IOPS, and provision as many volumes or snapshots to any number of VMs with no extra cost.

6. High performance: solves common storage bottlenecks for variable and high-I/O workloads with consistent low latency and unmatched performance.

Highlights

1. Highly Efficient, Multi-Tenant Storage Solution: Lightbits guarantees high-speed, durable storage volumes to safeguard your applications from data loss. Designed for diverse application environments, one Lightbits cluster can efficiently service a multitude of different applications.

2. Optimized for High-I/O Applications: With Lightbits, critical workloads with variable and high-I/O demands will function seamlessly, ensuring fast data processing and retrieval. This capability is crucial for businesses relying on real-time data transactions.

3. Cost-Efficient, Consistent Performance: Lightbits performance scales linearly with additional storage-optimized VMs, while maintaining low and consistent tail latencies without exceeding your budget.

4. Comprehensive Feature Set: enterprise data services such as incremental or on-demand snapshots, clones, Quality of Service (QoS), data compression, and thin provisioning, providing you with all enterprise-level services of a SAN., plus per-volume incremental backup to Azure Blob Storage.

This plan deploys Lightbits on Azure virtual machines optimized for storage workloads. The Azure usage charges are based on your deployed VMs that appear separately on your bill. The Lightbits license cost is based on the storage capacity provisioned across the VMs. Additional discounts are available based on volume and term.

Assess your cloud environment in 30 minutes, purchase a refundable Quickstart Kit to optimize workloads with Lightbits, and deploy into production or get your money back guaranteed. - https://bit.ly/Lightbits-Cloud-Starter