Supermicro Now An Authorized Lightbits Solution Partner

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Supermicro has partnered with Lightbits, becoming an authorized solution partner to enhance cloud-native storage capabilities. Their integrated solution combines Supermicro’s hardware with Lightbits’ NVMe/TCP technology, offering high performance, low latency, and scalability for Cloud Service Providers. A single SuperServer can achieve up to 4.7 million IOPs and 21GB/s read bandwidth. This collaboration is designed to reduce total cost of ownership, streamline deployment, and improve service provisioning for customers like Finanz Informatik Technology Service and Zenlayer.

Positive

• Joint offering enhances cloud-native storage capabilities for customers.
• High-performance solution can achieve 4.7 million random 4K read IOPs and 21GB/s read bandwidth.
• Reduces total cost of ownership through Intelligent Flash Management.
• Pre-integrated SuperServer solution simplifies deployment for Cloud Service Providers.

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• None.

Joint offering features all NVMe in a performance-dense form factor that accelerates cloud-native applications.

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Lightbits^®, the first software-defined complete data platform for any cloud, today announced that Supermicro, a global leader in high-performance computing, storage, networking solutions, and green computing technology, is now an authorized Lightbits solution partner. The Supermicro SuperServer family, featuring the Lightbits NVMe^®/TCP scale-out clustered storage solution, are pre-integrated servers with NVMe drives and networking that enables the rapid deployment of scalable, high-performance cloud-native storage.

The solution combines Supermicro’s systems and Lightbits’s technology to utilize NVMe fully and provide outstanding performance and low latency through standard Ethernet networks to accelerate cloud-native applications and reduce TCO. For example, a single SuperServer in a Lightbits cluster with redundancy enabled can serve up to 4.7 million random 4K read IOPs and up to 21GB/s of read bandwidth. When paired with Lightbits, a Supermicro SuperServer makes for an optimal data platform for Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), high-performance databases, analytics, VMware, Kubernetes, or OpenStack environments.

Solution benefits:

• Flexibility and operational efficiency: software-defined, disaggregated, and highly available block storage with rich data services
• High performance: low latency, high IOPs, high bandwidth
• Lower TCO: Intelligent Flash Management maximizes resource utilization and improves flash endurance
• Simple and easy to consume: no change to the network, runs on standard Ethernet NICs with standard TCP/IP networking infrastructure

“Lightbits is easy to deploy and consume on Supermicro SuperServers. Several of our customers are already using this integrated solution that delivers exceptional performance and low latency highlighting the benefits of NVMe drivers in a pre-built server for demanding database workloads and cloud deployments,” said Charla Bunton-Johnson, VP of Global Alliances and Channels at Lightbits.

One such customer is the CSP Finanz Informatik Technology Service (FI-TS). Using the joint Lightbits and Supermicro solution, FI-TS can now offer customers persistent storage with rich enterprise services, multi-tenancy, and scalability while staying aligned with the Finance Cloud Native services cost structure. And fast provisioning makes it possible for end customers to spin up services on bare metal in the Kubernetes environment in minutes instead of days. Another customer, Zenlayer, an edge cloud provider, leverages the ultra-low latency and high performance of the Lightbits and Supermicro solution to deliver a best-in-class digital user experience and worldwide NVMe as a Service on demand.

“Supermicro enables customers’ cloud environments with highly scalable, cost-effective enterprise-class storage solutions like Lightbits,” said Lawrence Lam, GM of Solutions and Technology at Supermicro. “Our SuperServer appliance with Lightbits scale-out solution featuring NVMe/TCP is a great addition to our Software-Defined Storage offerings and making it available as a preconfigured and fully tested appliance with a unique SKU enables the channel community to rapidly deploy industry-leading hardware and software.”

Additional resources:

• Solution Brief
• Enabling Real-Time Digital Experience Anywhere, Instantly with Zenlayer and Lightbits
• Discover How FI-TS Accelerates Provisioning Cloud Services
• Supermicro – Lightbits Software-Defined Storage Solution

About Supermicro

Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI) is a global leader in Application-Optimized Total IT Solutions. Founded and operating in San Jose, California, Supermicro is committed to delivering first to market innovation for Enterprise, Cloud, AI, and 5G Telco/Edge IT Infrastructure. We are transforming into a Total IT Solutions provider with server, AI, storage, IoT, and switch systems, software, and services while delivering advanced high-volume motherboard, power, and chassis products. The products are designed and manufactured in-house (in the US, Taiwan, and the Netherlands), leveraging global operations for scale and efficiency and optimized to improve TCO and reduce environmental impact (Green Computing). The award-winning portfolio of Server Building Block Solutions^® allows customers to optimize for their exact workload and application by selecting from a broad family of systems built from our flexible and reusable building blocks that support a comprehensive set of form factors, processors, memory, GPUs, storage, networking, power and cooling solutions (air-conditioned, free air cooling or liquid cooling).

Supermicro, Server Building Block Solutions, and We Keep IT Green are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Super Micro Computer, Inc.

About Lightbits Labs

Lightbits Labs^® (Lightbits^®), is on a mission to make high-performance block storage that is simple, scalable, and cost-efficient for any cloud. The complete Cloud Data Platform delivers efficiency, simplicity, and agility for modern data centers. Inventors of the NVMe^® over TCP (NVMe/TCP) protocol, Lightbits is leading the digital data center transformation by making software-defined, disaggregated storage that is easy to deploy at scale and delivers performance equivalent to local flash to accelerate cloud-native applications in bare metal, virtual, or containerized environments.

Lightbits, Lightbits Labs, and Lightbits SuperSSD are registered trademarks of Lightbits Labs, Ltd.

The NVMe^®, and NVMe^®/TCP wordmarks are registered or unregistered service marks of the NVM Express organization in the United States and other countries. All rights reserved. Unauthorized use is strictly prohibited.

All other trademarks and copyrights are the property of their respective owners.

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FAQ

What is the recent partnership announced by Supermicro?

Supermicro announced a partnership with Lightbits to provide integrated cloud-native storage solutions.

What are the key performance metrics of the new Supermicro and Lightbits solution?

The solution can achieve up to 4.7 million random 4K read IOPs and 21GB/s read bandwidth.

How does the partnership benefit Cloud Service Providers?

It offers a high-performance, scalable storage solution that reduces total cost of ownership and simplifies deployment.

Who are some customers utilizing the Supermicro and Lightbits solution?

Customers include Finanz Informatik Technology Service and Zenlayer.

What technology does the Supermicro server use in the partnership with Lightbits?

The Supermicro server utilizes Lightbits' NVMe/TCP technology for enhanced performance.