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Losant Blog: The Business Value of IoT Data in a Smart Environment

Losant Blog: The Business Value of IoT Data in a Smart Environment

The Losant team describes the business value of IoT data in a smart environment, including occupancy monitoring, smart parking, energy monitoring and optimization, and more.

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Velox Blog: Design of the Month – Digital Makes Customization Easy

Velox Blog: Design of the Month – Digital Makes Customization Easy

Customized products are perceived as luxurious and special. They grab consumers’ attention while giving them the sense that extra thought was invested in them as individuals. It’s a powerful and effective marketing tool, though not often used due to the limitations of most current printing technologies.

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Packaging Digest: What’s Next in Digital Printing of Beverage Cans

What’s Next in Digital Printing of Beverage Cans

Velox is bringing the versatility of digital printing technology to beverage cans starting with craft beers.

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The Canmaker: Powering the digital revolution

Powering the digital revolution

Mainstream canmakers are taking up digital printing as the use of the technology for metal decorating advances. Danielle Ingram reports on interviews with Velox and Crown Holdings.

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Velox Blog: Digital Direct-to-Shape Printing Is the Green Thing to Do

Velox Blog: Digital Direct-to-Shape Printing Is the Green Thing to Do

Not only does Velox's digital direct-to-shape printing for necked beverage cans eliminate the need for plastic sleeves or labels, it reduces the environmental footprint across the entire decoration process and beyond.

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Ink World: Growing Direct-to-Object Printing Market Shows Inkjet’s Versatility

Growing Direct-to-Object Printing Market Shows Inkjet’s Versatility

From printing on tubes and cans to promotional items and even food, the use of direct-to-object printing is growing fast. Ink World discusses direct-to-object printing with Velox and others.

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CAPA: WarpUV to manufacture rapid UV light disinfecting system for personal baggage

WarpUV to manufacture rapid UV light disinfecting system for personal baggage

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

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AviationPros: Rapid-Action Coronavirus and Bacteria Disinfection Technology

Rapid-Action Coronavirus and Bacteria Disinfection Technology for Passenger Luggage at Airports Stops Local Outbreaks from Becoming Global Pandemics

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

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Nikkei Asia: Foxconn and US startup work on BlackBerry's return to Asia

Foxconn and US startup work on BlackBerry's return to Asia

OnwardMobility CEO Peter Franklin discusses the new 5G BlackBerry Android smartphone coming to market.

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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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WIRED: Some people never let BlackBerry go. Their reward? A 2021 comeback

Some people never let BlackBerry go. Their reward? A 2021 comeback

It was nearly all over on August 31. BlackBerry owners had known it was coming for six months. TCL, which had been making Android phones under the BlackBerry name since 2017, was out, “no longer selling BlackBerry-branded mobile devices”. Then, just 12 days before the deadline and the latest in a long line of blows to BB phone fans, in steps Texas tech company Onward Mobility with promises of a new 5G Android BlackBerry in 2021.

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Forbes: Why the New BlackBerry 5G Could be a Striking Success

Why the New BlackBerry 5G Could be a Striking Success

A new BlackBerry smartphone has just been announced and it promises things no previous BlackBerry has had, such as 5G connectivity. The new phone comes from a Texas-based company called OnwardMobility (no, I hadn’t heard of it either) which has reached agreements with BlackBerry and a subsidiary of Foxconn called FIH Mobile.

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Engadget: The 5G BlackBerry could be 'the most American-made phone out there'

The 5G BlackBerry could be 'the most American-made phone out there'

BlackBerry faithful were dealt a harsh blow earlier this year when TCL, the biggest company to build phones for the brand, said it would stop. That left enthusiasts clinging to their KEY2s, wondering about would-be replacements, and raising glasses to the good old days — at least until an upstart Texas outfit announced plans to pick up where TCL left off.

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CrackBerry: CrackBerry Podcast: Onward BlackBerry!

CrackBerry Podcast: Onward BlackBerry!

Following the announcement from BlackBerry, OnwardMobility, and FIH Mobile that a new 5G BlackBerry would be arriving in the first half of 2021, you know we had to get the CrackBerry crew together to talk discuss it. With that in mind, we invited Peter Franklin, CEO at OnwardMobility to join us to talk about the announcement, their vision for BlackBerry, and plenty more.

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AndroidAuthority: BlackBerry phones are coming back in 2021, packing 5G too

BlackBerry phones are coming back in 2021, packing 5G too

It turns out that the BlackBerry name is poised to come back to the smartphone space courtesy of little-known mobile security brand Onward Mobility. More specifically, the US brand’s website notes that “new Blackberry 5G phones” are coming next year.

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PCMag: New BlackBerry With Keyboard Coming in 2021

New BlackBerry With Keyboard Coming in 2021

A new company called OnwardMobility says it has made a deal with the BlackBerry software company to use its name and intellectual property to create a new keyboarded Android smartphone, coming to the US and Europe in 2021.

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Printing News: Beyond the Hype

Beyond the Hype

Printing company owners are seeking new markets as the pandemic affects their businesses. They are assessing the constantly fluctuating environment, one that requires frequent pivots, driven by seen and unseen economic factors.

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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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Packaging Europe: Boosting sustainability through mass production DTS digital decoration

Boosting sustainability through mass production DTS digital decoration

Velox describes its cutting-edge, eco-friendly digital decoration solution including the added bonus of being a more sustainable technology compared to traditional solutions.

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Red Herring: 2020 Red Herring Top 100 Europe Winners

2020 Red Herring Top 100 Europe Winners

Lightbits Labs was named one of Red Herring's Top 100 companies in Europe.

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CRN: The 40 Coolest Software-Defined Storage Vendors: The 2020 Storage 100

The 40 Coolest Software-Defined Storage Vendors: The 2020 Storage 100

Lightbits Labs named a one of the 40 coolest software-defined storage vendors of the Storage 100 bring software capabilities, services and cloud connectivity to storage technology.

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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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SearchStorage: Containers, clouds, NVMe drive 2020 data storage innovation

Containers, clouds, NVMe drive 2020 data storage innovation

Key investment areas include performance-based object storage, cloud and new storage media. Recent investments include startups NVMe over Fabrics company Lightbits Labs, chipmaker Nuvia and all-flash specialist Vast Data.

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Beauty Packaging: Digital & 3D Printing Inspire New Designs

Digital & 3D Printing Inspire New Designs

In the beauty industry, advances in digital and 3D printing are inspiring new types of decorating processes and innovative packaging.

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Forbes Technology Council: The Tipping Point for Storage

The Tipping Point for Storage

Lightbits Labs Chief Strategy Officer Kam Eshghi pens an article in Forbes about storage trends.

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SearchStorage: Investments in data storage vendors topped $2B in 2019

Investments in data storage vendors topped $2B in 2019

The Israel-based startup created the SuperSSD array for NVMe flash. The Lightbits software stack converts generic in-the-box TCP/IP into a switched Ethernet fabric, presenting all storage as a single giant SSD. Dell EMC led Lightbits' funding, with contributions from Cisco and Micron Technology.

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SearchStorage: 5 data storage trends to watch in 2020

5 data storage trends to watch in 2020

Startup Lightbits Labs is among the storage vendors touting in-the-box TCP/IP as a natural fit for Ethernet-based NVMe fabric.

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Global Cosmetic Industry Magazine: 3 Ways to Optimize Cosmetic Packaging

3 Ways to Optimize Cosmetic Packaging

With an eye on attracting consumers to a product or brand, there are three key mega trends that have direct influence on cosmetic packaging.

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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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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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Packaging Impressions: Packaging Decoration Goes Direct

Packaging Decoration Goes Direct

Advancement in the manufacturing world is often viewed through a lens of efficiency, as new technology makes essential process steps faster. However, in many instances, it’s the removal of steps entirely that can provide the highest-impact results. Historically, label and package printing has been a two-dimensional process, with sheets or a web passing through a press, to then be converted into three-dimensional objects. But, with the rise of direct-to-shape and direct-to-object printing becoming increasingly viable technologies, package decoration can be viewed in a whole new light.

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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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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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SearchStorage: Lightbits Labs soups up NVMe fabric with all-flash SuperSSD

Lightbits Labs soups up NVMe fabric with all-flash SuperSSD

One month after launching its disaggregated NVMe storage software, Lightbits Labs is jumping into the hardware game. The startup this week introduced SuperSSD, an NVMe-oF all-flash array targeted at AI and cloud applications. The 2U form factor hosts the Lightbits LightOS operating system and 24 NVMe SSDs.

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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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Globes: Data center co Lightbits Labs raises $50m

Data center co Lightbits Labs raises $50m

Israeli data storage center company Lightbits Labs has raised $50 million in funding led by DellEMC and with the participation of Cisco, Micron, Square Peg Capital and Walden International. this is the company's third financing round after a seed round of several million dollars in 2016 and more than $10 million in 2017.

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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.