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Lightbits Labs to Showcase One of the First Hyperscale NVMe™/TCP Storage Platforms at Flash Memory Summit 2018SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 06, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lightbits Labs announced today that it will exhibit and demo one of the first hyperscale storage platforms for NVM Express™ (NVMe™) over Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) at the Flash Memory Summit, to be held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, August 7-9, 2018. The company has also published a white paper that outlines the benefits of NVMe over TCP (NVMe/TCP) for data centers. It is available for download at www.lightbitslabs.com. NVMe has transformed the storage industry since its emergence as the state-of-the-art protocol for high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs). Initially designed for high-performance direct-attached PCIe SSDs, NVMe was later expanded with NVMe over Fabrics™ (NVMe-oF™) to support a rack-scale remote pool of SSDs. The IT industry has widely accepted that this new NVMe-oF model will replace the iSCSI protocol as the communication standard between compute servers and storage servers and become the default protocol for disaggregated storage. The initial definition of NVMe-oF included support for two transport layers: Fibre Channel (FC) and remote direct memory access (RDMA) fabrics. NVMe/TCP extends the NVMe-oF offering for existing data centers that already include a TCP/IP infrastructure, offering the following benefits:
“As data centers move from direct-attached SSDs to disaggregated storage architectures, it is important to minimize disruption in implementation,” said Eran Kirzner, founder and CEO of Lightbits Labs. “Built with NVMe/TCP technology as the backbone, Lightbits’ solution offers estimated savings and performance advantages that include reduced tail latency by up to 50% versus direct attached storage and a doubling of SSD capacity utilization. We’re excited to demonstrate Lightbits’ capabilities to attendees at the Flash Memory Summit.” "The NVM Express organization is pleased to add TCP/IP as a supported transport for NVMe over Fabrics," said Amber Huffman, president, NVM Express, Inc. "Lightbits' solution demonstrates a key benefit of NVMe/TCP, enabling the use of NVMe-oF in existing data centers without requiring changes to the network infrastructure and with great performance." At the Flash Memory Summit, Lightbits’ executives will present at the following panels:
Lightbits will also showcase its NVMe/TCP storage platform at Intel’s booth (#745) at the conference, and team members will be on hand for demonstrations. About Lightbits Labs Contact: Lydia Chan, Ph: 201-725-0558, [email protected] |