Lightbits Labs is a software company based in San Jose, California.[1] [2]
Lightbits Labs was founded in 2016 by Avigdor Willenz, Eran Kirzner, Kam Eshghi, Muli Ben-Yehuda, and Sagi Grimberg with an initial funding of $10 million.[3] [4] Initially, Lightbits worked on developing a platform that uses NVMe/TCP standard to improve operations between NVMe and controller devices.[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]
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]