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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.