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Forbes: How AI is Impacting DevOps

How AI is Impacting DevOps

Dan Garfield of Codefresh discusses some unique aspects of DevOps that make it uniquely adaptable to AI augmentation. There’s a huge opportunity for teams to dramatically improve their software delivery processes by leveraging AI to help them generate the automation that they're going to be using.

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Forbes: Why Your Company Should Invest in Hackathons

Why Your Company Should Invest in Hackathons

Dan Garfield of Codefresh discusses the core value that hackathons provide to your company: employee enrichment. Hackathons done right are worth every penny and ounce of energy your company invests in them.

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Forbes: Practical Advice For Organizing A Successful Open-Source Technical Certification Program

Practical Advice For Organizing A Successful Open-Source Technical Certification Program

There are some important elements that can not only make a workshop much more successful than the typical labs that we often see available in the open source community today, but also much more accessible.

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The New Stack: KubeCon: 14,000 More Engineers Have Their GitOps Basics Down

KubeCon: 14,000 More Engineers Have Their GitOps Basics Down

As GitOps grows in its ability to leverage DevOps practices via Infrastructure as Code, thousands of students get up to speed on GitOps fundamentals utilizing Codefresh’s GitOps for Argo CD certification course.

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Computer Weekly: Code-to-cloud: Codefresh democratises GitOps with Argo

Code-to-cloud: Codefresh democratises GitOps with Argo

Available in hosted, on-premises and hybrid deployment options for enterprise environments, Codefresh uses open source Argo in a code-to-cloud solution enabling visibility into CI/CD deployments. It provides an easy-to-use framework for implementing GitOps and a scalable solution for large teams targeting multi-cluster, multi-application deployments.

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TechCrunch: Codefresh Launches Its Hosted GitOps Solution

Codefresh Launches Its Hosted GitOps Solution

A hosted GitOps platform removes that barrier for users who want to change the way they are deploying while letting them keep their integration pipelines in place. And that, is very much in line with the company’s focus on integrating with third-party services to help its users deliver their software to customers.

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SD Times: Codefresh Announces Hosted Version of GitOps Platform

Codefresh Announces Hosted Version of GitOps Platform

Codefresh has announced that its CD platform will be made available as a fully-hosted solution for GitOps teams looking to achieve frictionless, GitOps based continuous software delivery. This new hosted offering works to provide Argo CD as a Service and introduces new DORA dashboards and CI tool integrations.

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DEVOPSdigest: Codefresh Software Delivery Platform Released

Codefresh Software Delivery Platform Released

Codefresh unveiled its flagship Codefresh Software Delivery Platform (CSDP), powered by Argo.

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SD Times: Codefresh Software Delivery Platform now generally available

Codefresh Software Delivery Platform now generally available

Codefresh launched the Codefresh Software Delivery Platform (CSDP), which brings the Argo toolset, including Workflows, Events, CD, and Rollouts, into a single platform.

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AiThority: Codefresh Launches the Codefresh Software Delivery Platform, the First and Only Enterprise Argo Platform for Deploying and Scaling Applications

Codefresh Launches the Codefresh Software Delivery Platform, the First and Only Enterprise Argo Platform for Deploying and Scaling Applications

Codefresh unveiled its flagship Codefresh Software Delivery Platform (CSDP), powered by Argo. CSDP opens true DevOps potential.

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VentureBeat: Codefresh hopes to deploy and scale apps with enterprise Argo platform

Codefresh hopes to deploy and scale apps with enterprise Argo platform

Codefresh's solution collects the complete open source Argo toolset into a single platform for enhanced efficiency of software deployments.

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VMblog: Codefresh Sees Argo Ascendant in 2022

Codefresh Sees Argo Ascendant in 2022

Enterprise-class tooling for Argo and GitOps best practices will enable faster software delivery and smoother, scalable DevOps automation in the year ahead.

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Intellyx: Codefresh: All In on Argo CD GitOps Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes

Codefresh: All In on Argo CD GitOps Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes

For its part, Codefresh as been a leading force driving the development of Argo CD, providing leadership for the Argo CD community as well as committer resources driving development of the product. Codefresh is now building out an enterprise version of Argo CD for organizations that require more advanced security and other enterprise-level capabilities.

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TFIR: With Argo and GitOps Ascending, Continuous Software Delivery Demands a Major Open Source Commitment

With Argo and GitOps Ascending, Continuous Software Delivery Demands a Major Open Source Commitment

The advent of microservices has afforded us tremendous agility in how we build and deploy cloud native software, and the open-source community’s focus on continuous improvement and innovation is manifesting in some really interesting ways.

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Forbes: How GitOps Best Practices Could Take The Ransom Out Of Ransomware

How GitOps Best Practices Could Take The Ransom Out Of Ransomware

IT owners can think about GitOps as standardizing best practices for operations for the industry at large. The GitOps Working Group distilled the best ideas of DevOps into a set of clear guidelines and principles for exactly how these kinds of situations can be avoided. If you run infrastructure, you need to understand a variety of principles to get started with GitOps, which are described in this article.

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Forbes: Reimagining Cloud-Native Storage For Modern Apps On Kubernetes

Reimagining Cloud-Native Storage For Modern Apps On Kubernetes

The evolution to cloud native naturally entails an evolution to container-based environments. To maintain consistent application performance, you need to maintain a consistent storage response and most modern applications deployed in Kubernetes recommend flash as the storage medium. But where to deploy it?

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Storage Newsletter: Carol Platz VP of Global Marketing, Lightbits Labs -- Just Leaving WekaIO

Carol Platz VP of Global Marketing, Lightbits Labs -- Just Leaving WekaIO

Carol Platz joins Lightbits Labs as VP of Global Marketing. She formerly worked for WekaIO.

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NetworkWorld: 9 enterprise-storage startups to watch

9 enterprise-storage startups to watch

Young storage companies are innovating products that range from storage arrays to mainframe storage management to cloud storage and more. Lightbits Labs is one of the top companies to watch.

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Storage Newsletter: Lightbits Labs Hits High Gear With New Features, Expanded Intel Support, Customer Success

Lightbits Labs Hits High Gear With New Features, Expanded Intel Support, Customer Success

Article looks at recent news from Lightbits, including the recent announcement with Intel.

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TechRegister: New Intel Ice Lake processors boost performance, security

New Intel Ice Lake processors boost performance, security

Discusses how Intel invested in and collaborated with Lightbits Labs last September to optimize the startup’s composable software-defined storage for its Xeon Scalable processors, second-generation Optane dual in-line memory modules (DIMMs), QLC-based 3D NAND SSDs, Ethernet 800 Series network adapters and field programmable gate arrays.

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Tech Target/Search Data Center: New Intel Ice Lake processors boost performance, security

New Intel Ice Lake processors boost performance, security

Discusses Intel's Ice Lake and how Intel partner Lightbits Labs has shown Ice Lake-equipped servers could meet a customer's requirements for 9 M IOPS and 2 PB of capacity with five storage servers compared to eight nodes with the prior Cascade Lake processors. Lightbits' LightOS software-defined storage lets customers pool fast NVMe-based PCIe flash drives in a cluster of Ethernet-networked x86 servers.

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The Register: Lightbits Adds Snapshots and Clones

Lightbits Adds Snapshots and Clones

WarpUV launches AirFort ultraviolet "disinfection firewall" for biosecurity at airports with a focus on luggage disinfection

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Blocks & Files: Your occasional storage digest with Dell EMC, AWS Outposts, a PCIe 5.0 switch and more

Your occasional storage digest with Dell EMC, AWS Outposts, a PCIe 5.0 switch and more

Roundup coverage of top storage news highlights Lightbits' momentum

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DataCenter Knowledge: Top 10 Data Center Stories of the Month - January 2021

Top 10 Data Center Stories of the Month: January 2021

List of top stories from the world of storage, including Lightbits Labs.

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Storage Newsletter: Lightbits Labs LightOS 2.1 expanding scale out disaggregated storage capabilities for private hybrid and edge deployments

Lightbits Labs LightOS 2.1 expanding scale out disaggregated storage capabilities for private hybrid and edge deployments

Lightbits Labs announced advancements to its cloud-native storage solution, enabling customers to confidently scale their private, hybrid, and edge cloud deployments.

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AIthority: Lightbits Expand Scale Out Disaggregated Storage Capabilities for Private, Hybrid, and Edge Deployments

Lightbits Expand Scale Out Disaggregated Storage Capabilities for Private, Hybrid, and Edge Deployments

Lightbits Labs announced advancements to its cloud-native storage solution, enabling customers to confidently scale their private, hybrid, and edge cloud deployments. Lightbits, recently backed by Intel Capital, has extended its solution’s capabilities with the delivery of LightOS™ 2.1.

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ZDNet: Intel and Lightbits Labs team to improve storage performance

Intel and Lightbits Labs team to improve storage performance

Intel has partnered with Lightbits Labs, as well as taken a financial stake in the startup, to improve the performance of storage systems in the data center.

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Globes: Intel invests in Israeli co Lightbit Labs

Intel invests in Israeli co Lightbit Labs

Intel Corp. and Israeli startup Lightbit Labs today announced an agreement to speed up development of disaggregated storage solutions for data center operators. This strategic partnership includes technical co-engineering, go-to-market collaboration and an Intel Capital investment in Lightbits Labs.

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SearchStorage: NVMe over Fabrics startup Lightbits Labs adds clustering

NVMe over Fabrics startup Lightbits Labs adds clustering

Lightbits Labs added high availability to its software-defined block storage in version 2.0, giving it a "real enterprise" NVMe flash product with no single point of failure.

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TheNextPlatform: TheNextPlatform TV Interview with Lightbits Labs

TheNextPlatform TV Interview with Lightbits Labs

Interview with Lightbits Labs VP of Product Marketing Josh Goldenhar. Begins at 11:16. 

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GeekWire: Lightbits Labs LightOS 2.0: Reliable disaggregated storage that performs like local flash

Lightbits Labs LightOS 2.0: Reliable disaggregated storage that performs like local flash

Lightbits Labs launched LightOS 2.0.

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StorageReview: Lightbits Labs LightOS 2.0 Launched

Lightbits Labs LightOS 2.0 Launched

Lightbits Labs is rolling out the newest version of its OS, Lightbits Labs LightOS 2.0.

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Storage Unpacked Podcast: #159 – Introduction to MRAM with Joe O’Hare from Everspin

#159 – Introduction to MRAM with Joe O’Hare from Everspin

Storage Unpacked hosts dig deeper into storage media and look at magneto-resistive RAM, commonly known as MRAM in this conversation with Joe O’Hare, Director of Distribution and Product Marketing at Everspin Technologies.

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Storage Newsletter: Everspin with Partner Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions Developed Toggle MRAM for Space Applications

Everspin with Partner Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions Developed Toggle MRAM for Space Applications

Everspin Technologies, Inc.‘s partner Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions (CAES) presented a technical case study describing the versatility and performance of their jointly developed Toggle MRAM for space applications.

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Forbes: Good Testing Makes Good MRAM Memory

Good Testing Makes Good MRAM Memory

Tom Coughlin highlights Everspin's CMOS wafer testing.

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DigiTimes: Everspin and GF MRAM development expanded to 12nm

Everspin and GF MRAM development expanded to 12nm

Magnetoresistive memory (MRAM) giant Everspin announced the revision of the STT-MRAM joint development agreement with GlobalFoundries.

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Electronic Design: Catching Up on the Latest Developments in MRAM

Catching Up on the Latest Developments in MRAM

Electronic Design’s Bill Wong discusses MRAM, a future universal memory, with Everspin President and CEO Kevin Conley.

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AnandTech: GlobalFoundries & Everspin Extend MRAM Pact to 12nm

Magnetic RAM Finds Its Niche

Everspin stakes out the territory for magnetic nonvolatile memories.

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Electronic Engineering Journal: Magnetic RAM Finds Its Niche

Magnetic RAM Finds Its Niche

Everspin stakes out the territory for magnetic nonvolatile memories.

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CDRinfo: STT-MRAM Coming to Industrial and IoT Applications

STT-MRAM Coming to Industrial and IoT Applications

Everspin Technologies, Inc., is developing STT-MRAM specifically for Industrial. and IoT applications.

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EDA Cafe: Everspin Releases Design Guide for using 1 Gb STT-MRAM with Xilinx DDR4 FPGA Controller

Everspin Releases Design Guide for using 1 Gb STT-MRAM with Xilinx DDR4 FPGA Controller

Xilinx, Inc., the leader in adaptive and intelligent computing, has been supporting Everspin’s STT-MRAM for two generations and enables the 1 Gb STT-MRAM solution using its DDR4 controller in the Xilinx Vivado development environment.

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ZDNet: The 3 biggest storage trends of the next decade

The 3 biggest storage trends of the next decade

I've been watching storage for some 40 years. And each decade has seen accelerating change, and none more so than the the past 10 years. That trend will continue. Here's the biggest trends I expect to affect all who use storage, whether they know it or not.

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Forbes: When Combining Competing Storage Architectures Drives True Digital Transformation

When Combining Competing Storage Architectures Drives True Digital Transformation

For the past decade, “digital transformation” has been a key business goal for many -- applying technology for improved efficiency, increased revenue and enhanced customer experiences. This goal is not easily achieved. Digital transformation requires rethinking storage infrastructure to manage and access all the additional data it brings.

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DataCenter Knowledge: Lightbits Brings Clustered Storage to On-Premises Data Centers

Lightbits Brings Clustered Storage to On-Premises Data Centers

Lightbits Labs, a relatively new company focused on storage for cloud-scale data centers, has introduced what it says is the first NVMe/TCP clustered storage solution.

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SearchStorage: 6 data storage startups to watch in 2020

6 data storage startups to watch in 2020

Venture capitalists showed less interest in funding storage hardware startups in 2019 than previous years. But while most of the investments for data storage startups in 2019 went to mature data protection vendors, a few newcomers picked up enough funding to get on the map. 

Lightbits Labs enables native Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) to serve as a switched fabric for shared NVMe flash across server racks.

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VentureBeat: 3 emerging memory technologies that will change how you handle data

3 emerging memory technologies that will change how you handle data

A couple of years back, IDC predicted that by 2025 the average person will interact with connected devices 4,800 times per day. Information pouring in from those sensors will fuel machine learning, language processing, and artificial intelligence, all requiring fast storage and more compute horsepower. The next generation of memory technologies will address gaps in today’s storage hierarchy, delivering data where it’s needed for real-time processing. MRAM shows promise at the edge.

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TheNextPlatform: When Persistence is a Virtue, MRAM is an Alternative to DRAM and SRAM

When Persistence is a Virtue, MRAM is an Alternative to DRAM and SRAM

Magneto-resistive random access memory (MRAM) is one of those technologies that is often talked about as having the potential to change the computer memory landscape. But in actuality, MRAM has been commercially available since 2006 and is already displacing static RAM (SRAM), dynamic RAM (DRAM), and flash NAND in number of applications inside and outside the datacenter.

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Storage Review: VMWorld 2019 News Bits

VMWorld 2019 News Bits

This week VMworld 2019 took place in San Francisco, California. While we covered the major announcements from the VMware and Dell Technologies, there were several other smaller announcements. These announcements come from vendors such as Apstra, Lightbits Labs, Cohesity, Rackspace, Supermicro, and Check Point.

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Blocks & Files: Enterprise storage suppliers bring their toys to VMWorld

Enterprise storage suppliers bring their toys to VMWorld

Suppliers of ancillary products are integrating themselves deeper into the VMware environment as it becomes a dominant platform for enterprise server computing. Let’s look at some of the products on show at VMworld in San Francisco this week.

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Forbes: Getting Solid at FMS

Getting Solid at FMS

One last blog on the 2019 Flash Memory Summit. This one covers some of the SSD keynotes announcements as well as software defined NVMe applications and end with a ReRAM Neural Network technology.

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Tom's Hardware: Phison Brings Everspin’s 1Gb STT-MRAM To Next-Gen SSD Controllers

Phison Brings Everspin’s 1Gb STT-MRAM To Next-Gen SSD Controllers

The technology that never goes mainstream even after 30 years of advancement is advancing even farther into the enterprise market, thanks to a partnership that pairs Everspin's latest 1Gb ICs with Phison’s next-gen SSD controller.

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CRN: 10 Coolest Flash Storage and SSD Technologies of 2019 So Far

10 Coolest Flash Storage and SSD Technologies of 2019 So Far

Lightbits Labs in April introduced SuperSSD, calling it the industry’s first scalable, Ethernet-attached SSD offering targeting the storage performance, capacity and reliability requirements for artificial intelligence and machine-learning training systems. SuperSSD was purpose-built for fast and massive parallel access to data. The technology virtualizes and manages a large pool of NVMe SSDs with a global flash translation layer (GFTL) for efficient storage utilization and wire-speed access to very large data sets across existing network and compute infrastructures.

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Forbes: Network Growth And Enterprise Storage

Network Growth And Enterprise Storage

This blog presents survey results indicating telco perceptions of the growth and use of 5G networks and particularly the growth of edge computing. We also talk about some recently announced solutions for enterprise storage, including the Seagate Exos platform and its integration with Cloudian Software. We also talk about Lightbits and NVMe over TCP and new SSDs from Toshiba that have been certified with Excelero’s NVMesh software defined block storage.

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AnandTech: Everspin Begins Production of 1 Gb STT-MRAM

Everspin Begins Production of 1 Gb STT-MRAM

Everspin recently announced they have begun pilot production of their 1Gb STT-MRAM (Spin-transfer Torque Magnetoresistive RAM) nonvolatile memory, after shipping the first pre-production samples in December. The new MRAM parts are fabbed on a GlobalFoundries 28nm process and are a significant advance in density and capacity compared to their current 40nm 256Mb parts. Production will be ramping up through the second half of this year.

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Computer Weekly: Lightbits Super SSD brings NVMe on vanilla Ethernet

Lightbits SuperSSD brings NVMe on vanilla Ethernet

Israeli startup LightBits offers super-fast NVMe flash storage over plain Ethernet networks in a move that some think will bring “iSCSI for the NVMe generation.”

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VentureBeat: Lightbits Labs raises $50 million for software-defined 'disaggregated' server technology

Lightbits Labs raises $50 million for software-defined 'disaggregated' server technology

Datacenters with servers directly attached to solid-state drives (SSDs) often suffer from an imbalance of storage and compute: Either there’s not enough processing power to go around, or physical storage limits get in the way of daily data transfer operations. Four-year-old startup Lightbits Labs claims it has the solution to the perennial underutilization problem, and it’s raising money to prove out its approach. The company today announced that it has raised $50 million in funding led by strategic partners Dell EMC, Cisco, Micron, SquarePeg Capital.

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TheNextPlatform: NVM-Express Storage Goes Mainstream Over Ethernet Fabrics

NVM-Express Storage Goes Mainstream Over Ethernet Fabrics

Among the emerging themes for 2019 in the datacenter, one of them is that NVM-Express is finding its place in the storage hierarchy. NVM-Express started out as an important interconnect inside of storage systems, but its extension across network fabrics is very likely going to have a more transformative effect on datacenters as it allows for storage to be disaggregated from compute, enabling the kind of disaggregation and composability that, thus far, only the biggest cloud builders and hyperscalers could afford to create for yourself.

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The Register: Let there be Lightbits: Hardware-software tag team touts block-level storage at SSD latencies

Let there be Lightbits: Hardware-software tag team touts block-level storage at SSD latencies

Israeli startup Lightbits Labs has launched storage software to run NVMe over TCP with optional hardware acceleration. The system is said to support scale-out shared external block access storage at latencies similar to direct-attached SSDs.

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Search Storage: Lightbits Labs launches TCP-based NVMe-over-fabrics storage

Lightbits Labs launches TCP-based NVMe-over-fabrics storage

Lightbits Labs capped more than three years of product development with introductory offerings that turn the mature Transmission Control Protocol into a switched fabric for shared NVMe flash storage. The startup launched three products for NVMe over fabrics: LightOS disaggregated storage software, the LightBox NVMe all-flash array and an optional LightField accelerator card to offload data services.

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Calcalist: Lightbits Emerges From Stealth with $50 Million in Funding

Lightbits Emerges From Stealth with $50 Million in Funding

Co-founded by celebrated Israeli entrepreneur Avigdor Willenz, the datacenter software company counts heavyweights Cisco, Dell, and Micron as backers. 

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The Register: Flash array startup E8 whips out benchmarks, everyone will complain

Flash array startup E8 whips out benchmarks, everyone will complain

NVMe over Fabrics flash array startup E8 says its box out-performs Dell EMC and Pure arrays by up to 20 times.

E8 is now selling and shipping a 2U by 24 NVMe SSD and NVMe over Fabrics-accessed array, with dual controllers and some logic agents in the accessing servers. It provides a claimed 10 million IOPS with 100 microsecond latency. The array is actually just a bunch of flash drives and uses dual-port 6.4TB NVMe SSDs, the first such array in the storage business.

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EE Times: Dual Ports Drive NVMe SSD Uptick

Dual Ports Drive NVMe SSD Uptick

Solid state drives (SSDs) that use the Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) interface haven't been adopted as quickly as expected, but one storage startup sees the advent of dual port functionality as an opportunity to make inroads the enterprise storage market.

Zivan Ori, CEO and co-founder of E8 Storage, told EE Times in a telephone interview that he sees the industry shifting toward NVMe on both the client and enterprise side. "There's no longer a premium associated with NVMe," Ori said.

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CRN: The 10 Coolest Storage Startups Of 2016

The 10 Coolest Storage Startups of 2016

E8 Storage
CEO and Co-Founder: Zivan Ori

Tel Aviv-based E8 Storage came out of stealth in May when it said it received $12 million in B-round funding. E8 Storage is developing software-defined NVMe-based storage solutions that will leverage NVMe flash storage for high-performance applications.

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SearchStorage: Hot data storage technology trends for 2017

Hot data storage technology trends for 2017

As in past years, there's nothing bleeding-edge or impractical here, only newer storage tech that's been proven practical. Hence, while our list of storage technology trends represents the best and brightest the storage industry has to offer, it only includes technologies you can buy and deploy today.

Climb aboard, fasten your seatbelts and get ready to discover our take on what technologies will have the most profound effect on storage shops in 2017.

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The Register: Storage newbie - You need COTS to really rock that NVMe baby

Storage newbie: You need COTS to really rock that NVMe baby

NVMe drives need NVMe fabrics to give shared arrays the data access latency killing benefits of NVMe. Unlike Nimble architect Dimitris Krekoukias, storage startup E8 believes putting NVMe SSDs in today's all-flash arrays will be futile; it claims we need NVMe fabrics to get the NVMe performance boost.

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InfoStor: 15 Data Storage Startups

15 Data Storage Startups

The data storage market has become a hotbed of innovation and entrepreneurship. Here are 15 data storage startups that are generating excitement, including E8 Storage.

Software defined networking, the cloud, solid state storage:  there are many reasons why the days of buying an expensive storage system from an established vendor may well be numbered. Here are 15 innovative startups that may provide a better way to meet your storage needs.

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ITBusinessEdge: E8 Storage Unveils NVM Express Array

E8 Storage Unveils NVM Express Array

At the Flash Memory Summit 2016 conference today, E8 Storage unveiled a storage array built using solid-state drives (SSDs) based on a Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) Express interface that when attached to a high-speed network provides access to shared storage at speeds that are comparable to a locally attached SSD.

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SearchStorage: E8 Storage brings out 'software-defined DSSD' NVMe array

E8 Storage brings out 'software-defined DSSD' NVMe array

E8 Storage is entering the all-flash storage market with an appliance that will cram 24 NVMe SSDs into a 2U box. The vendor promises its SSDs will perform with the same latency and throughput as those attached directly to a host.