New technology iteration for Lightbits Labs

Lightbits Labs, active player in disaggregated storage, unveiled recently a new product iteration with the addition of a clustering mode.

Before this feature, Lightbits was, and is still, able to protect data within a storage box with N+1 erasure coding but not across boxes. LightOS fixes this by a new step towards total availability with new data copy services across arrays and multi-pathing aligned with the NVMe 1.4 specification.

We see real adoption of the clear separation of compute and storage from a serve point of view contributing to the independent scalability for these 2 layers. But this decoupling introduced potential drawbacks as control is given to the storage layers not always mature and ready to provide enterprise class solutions.

It represents a good progress that will ease enterprise penetration but we don't see really new things (we remember Conley Safepath then EMC PowerPath, Veritas DMP...) here except for NVMe world, we already saw that with FC/SAN in 95's, 25 years ago for people who like me worked already in the storage industry. NVMe is pretty recent, NVMe/TCP is is very recent and we really hope to see more new things coming... I mean thing we didn't see in the past...