Lightbits, the leading provider of data platform solutions for the cloud, has launched its high-performance storage solution on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. This collaboration enables Microsoft Azure customers worldwide to access Lightbits’ innovative storage solution and take advantage of the scalability, reliability, and agility of Azure for their enterprise cloud migrations.
The Lightbits Cloud Data Platform eliminates the performance and cost limitations typically associated with native cloud storage. By leveraging the power of Azure, Lightbits enables enterprises to migrate their storage-intensive workloads to the cloud easily. The platform creates a high-performance SAN (Storage Area Network) in the cloud by clustering virtual machines connected by NVMe® over TCP, providing the necessary performance for demanding workloads such as databases, analytics, and transactions.
One of the key advantages of Lightbits is its ability to deliver high performance. With the capability to deliver up to 1 million IOPS per volume and consistent latency as low as 190 microseconds, Lightbits enables organizations to accelerate their migration to the cloud. Furthermore, organizations can save up to 85% on their storage costs by leveraging Lightbits’ efficient capacity consumption model, which minimizes storage usage through thin provisioning, data reduction, and other efficiencies.
Lightbits on Azure is available as a Managed Application through the Azure Marketplace, ensuring streamlined deployment and management for customers. With this managed service, customers can remain hands-off from managing storage, as it includes 24/7 health monitoring, high availability with SLAs, proactive software upgrades, critical vulnerability patches, auto-healing notifications, and guidelines for cluster expansion.
The Lightbits Cloud Data Platform is currently in Preview in the eu-west, us-east, and us-west Azure regions. This provides Azure customers with the opportunity to leverage Lightbits’ high-performance and cost-efficient storage solution while benefiting from the scalability and reliability of Azure.
Lightbits’ solution has garnered positive feedback from customers and partners alike. According to John Barnes, Sales Director at Sycomp, The market needed a cloud data platform like Lightbits that removes the bottlenecks associated with cloud-native storage and enables the migration of critical, storage-intensive workloads to Azure.
The availability of Lightbits’ high-performance storage solution on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace further expands the range of innovative solutions for organizations seeking to optimize their cloud environments. With Lightbits’ cloud data platform, enterprises can migrate storage-intensive workloads to Azure with ease while ensuring high performance, cost efficiency, and simplified management.
Overall, this collaboration between Lightbits and Microsoft Azure provides organizations with a robust and flexible solution that addresses their storage requirements in the cloud. As more enterprises prioritize cloud-first strategies, the availability of efficient and high-performance storage solutions becomes increasingly crucial. With Lightbits on Azure, organizations can confidently migrate their workloads to the cloud and unlock the full potential of Azure’s capabilities.
