Overview

Lightbits on Azure provides enterprise-grade, high-performance cloud storage with consistent sub-millisecond latency. It enables storage-intensive workloads like SQL, NoSQL, and latency-sensitive applications to run efficiently on Azure, optimizing performance while reducing cloud storage costs. The platform supports snapshots, clones, QoS, compression, and thin provisioning, while spanning multiple Availability Zones. NVMe/TCP shared storage allows dynamic scaling and multi-tenant deployment, offering low-cost, high-speed storage with strong data protection and high availability.

Features and Capabilities

• Enterprise Features: Attach NVMe/TCP volumes to any Azure VM, enabling snapshots, clones, dynamic volume resize, QoS, compression, and thin provisioning.
• High Performance: Outperforms native Azure storage using Lsv3-Series storage-optimized VMs, reducing storage bottlenecks with low latency and high throughput.
• Data Protection & High Availability: Synchronous 3-way replication within or across Availability Zones ensures data remains accessible during failures; self-healing recreates replicas automatically.
• Ease of Use: Deploy and manage Lightbits on Azure in minutes; API-driven provisioning attaches volumes to any VM.
• Scalable: Dynamically scale-out or scale-down storage clusters on-demand; built-in compression and thin provisioning optimize capacity.
• Hybrid Cloud Support: Licenses can move between on-premises servers and Azure VMs, enabling flexible cloud migration.
• Cost Efficiency: Offers predictable, low-cost storage; up to 86% cheaper than Azure Ultra Disk; no extra charges for IOPS or throughput.
• Multi-Tenant Support: Single cluster services multiple heterogeneous app environments with high-performance persistent volumes.