Lightbits team winning award (PR pic)
Lightbits, an Israeli startup that offers the first software-defined NVMe data platform for any cloud, raised $42 million in growth capital in a round led by new investor Atreides Management. Lightbits has now raised more than $100 million to date.
Founded in 2016, Lightbits boasts that it makes high-performance elastic block storage simple, scalable, and cost-efficient for any cloud. Lightbits says that it offers a Cloud Data Platform that delivers “efficiency, simplicity, and agility for modern data centers.” Inventors of the NVMe over TCP (NVMe/TCP) protocol, Lightbits is a digital data center transformation by making software-defined storage that is “easy to deploy at scale and delivers performance equivalent to local flash to accelerate cloud-native applications in bare metal, virtual, or containerized environments.”
NVMe is Non-Volatile Memory Express. NVMexpress.org explains that the NVM Express® (NVMe®) family of specifications define how host software communicates with non-volatile memory across multiple transports like PCI Express® (PCIe®), RDMA, TCP and more. It is the industry standard for solid state drives (SSDs) in all form factors (U.2, M.2, AIC, EDSFF). NVM Express is the non-profit consortium of tech industry leaders defining, managing and marketing NVMe technology. The latest NVMe 2.0 library of specifications consists of multiple documents, including the NVMe Base specification, Command Set specifications (NVM Command Set specification, ZNS Command Set specification, KV Command Set specification), Transport specifications (PCIe Transport specification, Fibre Channel Transport specification, RDMA Transport specification and TCP Transport specification) and the NVMe Management Interface specification.
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“The unprecedented events of the past two years and the impact of strained supply chains, have organizations thinking differently about their data infrastructure, rapidly accelerating the adoption of cloud solutions. There is tremendous pressure on Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) and IT Organizations with private clouds to profitably keep pace with growing business demand while providing fast, resilient, and secure services,” said Avigdor Willenz, Co-Founder and Chairman of Lightbits Labs. “Lightbits invented NVMe/TCP and has led the way in defining a cloud-native storage architecture that is simple, agile, and efficient. Delivering these benefits significantly improves the competitive advantage of our enterprise customers. This investment and our continued growth are validation of our strategy, our incredible team, and our mission to lead the cloud-native data center transformation by delivering scalable and efficient software-defined storage that is easy to consume.”
