Company:Lightbits Labs

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Lightbits Labs
IndustrySoftware
Founded2016
Founders
  • Avigdor Willenz
  • Eran Kirzner
  • Kam Eshghi
  • Muli Ben-Yehuda
  • Ofir Efrati
  • Fabian Trumper
Headquarters
San Jose, California
,
United States
Key people
Eran Kirzner (CEO)
Websitelightbitslabs.com

Lightbits Labs is an American software company based in San Jose, California.[1][2]

History

Lightbits Labs was founded in 2016 by Avigdor Willenz, Eran Kirzner, Kam Eshghi, Muli Ben-Yehuda, Ofir Efrati, and Fabian Trumper with an initial funding of $10 million.[3][4] Initially, Lightbits invented and standardized NVMe/TCP standard and built the first commercial NVMe/TCP storage platform.[2]

In March 2019, Lightbits Labs received $50 million investment from Dell EMC, Cisco, Micron Technology and others.[4] 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.[1]

In September 2020, Intel made an investment in Lightbits.[5][6] Later, Lightbits also formed a partnership with Intel to develop a disaggregated storage platform for data centers.[7][8][9]

In June 2022, Lightbits received $42 million in a funding round, including from JP Morgan Chase.[10] In October 2022, Lenovo Group also invested in Lightbits.[11]

Products

Lightbits develops software-defined storage that uses the NVMe/TCP standard.[10] 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.[10][8]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mellor, Chris (12 Mar 2019). "Let there be Lightbits: Hardware-software tag team touts block-level storage at SSD latencies". https://www.theregister.com/2019/03/12/lightbits_nvmeovertcp_hardware_and_software/. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Wiggers, Kyle (March 12, 2019). "Lightbits Labs raises $50 million for software-defined 'disaggregated' server technology". https://venturebeat.com/business/lightbits-labs-raises-50-million-for-software-defined-disaggregated-server-technology/. 
  3. ↑ "Lightbits Labs". https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/1703278D:IT. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Data center co Lightbits Labs raises $50m". Globes. December 3, 2019. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-data-center-storage-co-lightbits-labs-raises-50m-1001277705. 
  5. ↑ Dor, Ofir (September 29, 2020). "Intel invests in Israeli co Lightbit Labs". Globes. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-intel-invests-in-israeli-co-lightbit-labs-1001344006. 
  6. ↑ "com! professional trifft auf Professional System". September 25, 2024. https://www.professional-system.de/com-professional-trifft-auf-professional-system/. 
  7. ↑ Osborne, Charlie (September 30, 2020). "Intel teams up with Lightbits Labs to maximize data center profitability". https://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-teams-up-with-lightbits-labs-to-maximize-data-center-profitability/. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Serra, Yann (15 August 2022). "Lightbits offers NVMe-over-TCP at 5x less than NVMe-over-FC et al". https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252523829/Lightbits-offers-NVMe-over-TCP-at-5x-less-than-NVMe-over-FC-et-al. 
  9. ↑ "Intel and Lightbits Labs team to improve storage performance". October 2, 2020. https://www.networkworld.com/article/969221/intel-and-lightbits-labs-team-to-improve-storage-performance.html. 
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Wiggers, Kyle (June 28, 2022). "Lightbits Labs lands $42M to speed up server data transfers". https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/28/lightbits-labs-lands-42m-to-speed-up-server-data-transfers/. 
  11. ↑ Kimball, Matt (Sep 30, 2022). "Lenovo Doubles Down On The Datacenter As ThinkSystem Turns 30". https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2022/09/30/lenovo-doubles-down-on-the-datacenter-as-thinksystem-turns-30/. 



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