Lightbits Labs ready to flood the market

Lightbits Labs, a emerging leader in NVMe/TCP, moves fast and finally, just announced a SSD storage array named SuperSSD. It is a storage appliance accessible via Ethernet and supporting NVMe over TCP and RoCE. For more details on Lightbits Labs and their approach I invite the reader to read the long post I wrote last month.

We have discovered this appliance last year at FMS 2018 when the company did a presentation. One slide on page 24 showed an appliance with the company logo and we were intrigued.

SuperSSD is a one node x86 2U server with dual 100GbE supporting 24 NVMe SSD that can offer up to 1PB usable. The redundancy of the box must be configured with mirroring across arrays with a host volume manager.

The data protection is delivered by erasure coding and compression offers 4:1 ratio. In term of performance, 5M IOPS 4K with less than 200us latency. The array could be also used for in-place computing with applications running within the box.

The topology is the same as already described but this time the end device is one or multiple SSD appliances in that case the Lightbits Labs one.

It confirms once more that the company compete against other young NVMe vendors like E8, Apeiron, Pavilion, Vexata or gorillas such Pure Storage, NetApp, Dell EMC, IBM or HPE.