Lucidity has pioneered downtime-free disk tier conversions with Lumen, bringing unified visibility, data-driven recommendations, and single-click actions to cloud storage management
Lucidity, the world’s only company dedicated to multi-cloud storage management, announced the general availability of Lumen—a new intelligence engine designed to deliver visibility, actionable insights, and automated disk tiering for cloud storage environments. After a successful early access program, Lumen is now available to all Lucidity customers, offering real-time optimization to enhance application performance while cutting cloud storage costs.
As enterprises continue their rapid migration to the cloud, the volume of stored data is growing at an unprecedented rate. Industry forecasts project the cloud storage market to rise from $134.5 billion in 2024 to over $1.1 trillion by 2035. Yet, amid this growth, cloud storage often remains a blind spot for organizations, resulting in cost overruns and inefficiencies. Managing storage effectively requires navigating a complex landscape of more than a thousand potential manual decisions—from capacity planning and tiering choices to usage tracking and downtime prevention.
Lucidity has been at the forefront of solving these challenges since launching AutoScaler in 2021, enabling enterprises like World Market and Dometic to rightsize their cloud storage autonomously across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. With Lumen, the company takes its vision a step further by tackling one of the most critical and overlooked aspects of storage management—disk tiering.
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“Cloud storage deserves the same level of automation and cost optimization that cloud compute has gotten,” says Nitin Bhaudaria, Cofounder at Lucidity. “Getting the most out of your cloud storage is complex–leading to a reality of overprovisioned capacity, premium-by-default disk tiers, and idle and orphaned disks, just to name a few. We’ve solved the problem of overprovisioning with AutoScaler, and we’re excited to simplify never-before-touched areas of cloud storage management with Lumen, starting with disk tiering optimization. The ability to get actionable recommendations for matching the right disk tier to your application needs, and convert disk tiering up or down with one click and no downtime is a real game changer.”
Making Cloud Storage Smarter and Simpler
Cloud storage has become a growing burden on IT, Cloud, and DevOps teams—not only in terms of cost but also in time and complexity. Disk tiering decisions alone involve evaluating six different options based on metrics like IOPS, throughput, and latency—figures that are difficult to predict in advance. As a result, most organizations default to high-cost tiers, rarely reassessing those decisions due to lack of visibility or the risks associated with making changes.
Lumen solves this problem head-on by offering a unified dashboard that reveals critical storage insights, delivers optimization recommendations based on actual usage patterns, and enables one-click tier conversions without any downtime.
“Working with Lucidity has helped us move faster and smarter,” says Aaron Stayton, Manager of Cloud and Infrastructure Engineering at Dometic. “Their team gets the challenges we’re trying to solve, and they bring ideas to the table that make a real difference. It’s been a strong, collaborative partnership that’s delivering results and we’re excited about exploring the impact Lumen can make at Dometic.”
Key Features and Benefits of Lumen
Lumen empowers enterprises to regain control over their cloud storage strategy with the following capabilities:
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Unified Storage Visibility: Monitor disk tiering, usage patterns, and performance metrics across your entire cloud environment in one place.
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Intelligent Cost Optimization: Receive data-backed recommendations based on a multi-dimensional analysis of IOPS, latency, throughput, and cost to guide smarter tiering decisions.
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Seamless Tiering Conversions: Convert disk tiers instantly with zero downtime or disruption, eliminating the need for complex manual interventions.
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Enhanced Operational Efficiency: Free up hundreds of IT and DevOps hours by reducing manual oversight and accelerating optimization workflows.
With Lumen, Lucidity continues to lead the charge in reshaping how enterprises approach multi-cloud storage—bringing automation, efficiency, and intelligence to an area long overdue for transformation.