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Lightbits Labs is a software company based in San Jose, California.

History

Lightbits Labs was founded in 2016 by Avigdor Willenz, Eran Kirzner, Kam Eshghi, Muli Ben-Yehuda, and Sagi Grimberg with an initial funding of $10 million. Initially, Lightbits worked on developing a platform that uses NVMe/TCP standard to improve operations between NVMe and controller devices.

In March 2019, Lightbits Labs received $50 million investment from Dell EMC, Cisco, Micron Technology and others. In November 2019, NVM Express approved the NVMe/TCP storage protocol that was jointly developed by Lightbits. In the same year, Lightbits also released storage software capable of running NVMe over TCP.

In September 2020, Intel made an investment in Lightbits. Later, Lightbits also formed a partnership with Intel to develop a disaggregated storage platform for data centers.

In June 2022, Lightbits received $42 million in a funding round, including from JP Morgan Chase. In October 2022, Lenovo Group also invested in Lightbits.

Products

Lightbits develops software-defined storage that uses the NVMe/TCP standard. It can distribute NVMe data transfer queues across multiple parallel connections, resulting in access latencies of 100 to 120 microseconds, or approximately 200 microseconds when using commodity servers.

References

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