Lightbits Labs is an American software company based in
San Jose, California
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.
History
Lightbits Labs was founded in 2016 by
Avigdor Willenz
Avigdor Willenz (; born in 1957, Rehovot, Israel) is an Israeli entrepreneur in the electronics field, venture capitalist, billionaire, and philanthropist.
Early life and education
Avigdor Willenz was born in 1957 in Rehovot. He studied at He ...
, Eran Kirzner, Kam Eshghi, Muli Ben-Yehuda, Ofir Efrati, and Fabian Trumper with an initial funding of $10 million.
Initially, Lightbits invented and standardized
NVMe/TCP standard and built the first commercial NVMe/TCP storage platform.
In March 2019, Lightbits Labs received $50 million investment from
Dell EMC
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,
Cisco
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,
Micron Technology
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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
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.
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
External links
* {{official website, lightbitslabs.com
Software companies of the United States