Microsoft Azure customers worldwide now gain access to Lightbits high-performance storage to take advantage of the scalability, reliability, and agility of Azure to drive enterprise cloud migrations.
SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#cloud—Lightbits®, the innovation leader in simple, flexible, and cost-efficient data platform solutions for any cloud, today announced the availability of the Lightbits Cloud Data Platform in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Azure. Lightbits customers can now take advantage of the productive and trusted Azure cloud platform, with streamlined deployment and management.
Lightbits eliminates the performance and cost limitations associated with native cloud storage, enabling enterprises to migrate their storage-intensive workloads to Azure. By clustering virtual machines connected by NVMe® over TCP, Lightbits creates a high-performance SAN in the cloud to power demanding database, analytics, and transactional workloads on Azure while also providing essential enterprise data services. Lightbits is available through the Marketplace as a Managed Application, making it as easy to provision and manage as the native storage offerings.
Now in Preview in eu-west, us-east, and us-west Azure regions, Lightbits enables customers to:
“As organizations prioritize cloud-first strategies, many are discovering they have mission-critical workloads that won’t be able to meet SLAs running in the public cloud, or that it comes with costs that make it infeasible,” said Kam Eshghi, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Lightbits. “With Lightbits they get the highest performance possible on Azure at a lower cost than native cloud storage, plus hands-off operations as a managed service. Now they can migrate all their workloads to the cloud and be confident that they won’t have to repatriate them back on-premises due to skyrocketing costs.”
“Through Microsoft Azure Marketplace, customers around the world can easily find, buy, and deploy partner solutions they can trust, all certified and optimized to run on Azure,” said Jake Zborowski, General Manager, Microsoft Azure Platform at Microsoft Corp.“We’re happy to welcome the Lightbits solution to the growing Azure Marketplace ecosystem.”
The Azure Marketplace is an online market for buying and selling cloud solutions certified to run on Azure. The Azure Marketplace helps connect companies seeking innovative, cloud-based solutions with partners who have developed solutions that are ready to use.
“The market needed a cloud data platform like Lightbits that removes the bottlenecks associated with cloud-native storage and enables the migration of critical, storage-intensive workloads to Azure,” said John Barnes, Sales Director, at Sycomp. “Our customers running high-speed databases and AI workloads needed a solution on Azure that delivered the best price/performance capabilities while also being simple to deploy and manage. Today that unmatched solution is Lightbits.”
For more information, reserve your front-row seat for the Lightbits on Azure launch event live on September 29, 2023.
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About Lightbits Labs
Lightbits Labs® (Lightbits), offers a complete data platform that enables organizations with a cloud-first strategy to migrate storage-intensive workloads to the cloud or to build a high-performance cloud. It eliminates the performance bottlenecks commonly associated with legacy, traditional, or cloud-native storage and delivers high performance, consistent low latency, and predictable low costs. The native NMVe/TCP and clustered architecture, coupled with essential data services solve the common cloud storage challenges of performance, efficiency, and cost. Lightbits is backed by enterprise technology leaders [Cisco Investments, Dell Technologies Capital, Intel Capital, Lenovo, and Micron] and is on a mission to deliver a robust cloud storage platform with unmatched simplicity, efficiency, agility, and flexibility.
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