Lightbits Labs (Lightbits®), the creator of NVMe® over TCP and innovator of flexible, efficient, and resilient cloud data storage solutions, announced they have joined the Mirantis partner program, a leading provider of open source-based infrastructure services and solutions. This collaboration brings together two industry pioneers to move customers from VMware to a more agile cloud infrastructure with dramatically improved performance and cost-efficiency at scale.
This collaboration addresses the increasing adoption of NVMe-oF as a Tier 1 storage standard and the continued adoption of software-defined, open-source solutions in modern data centers, reflecting a broader industry shift toward flexibility and hardware-agnostic systems to power modern data centers. Lightbits, as the inventor of NVMe/TCP and the only truly hardware-agnostic, high-performance software-defined block storage solution on the market, is uniquely positioned to help Mirantis customers capitalize on these trends.
“We believe Lightbits offers a modernized, software-defined approach to block storage that enhances application performance and improves efficiency while reducing infrastructure complexity and cost,” said Michael Kress, Director, Partners and Alliances at Mirantis. “This collaboration enhances Mirantis’ commitment to optimize our customers’ cloud environments for scale, performance, resiliency, and efficiency while reducing their dependency on proprietary platforms that make their IT strategy vulnerable to unwanted vendor pricing, policy, and product decisions.”
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Mirantis has delivered some of the largest infrastructure as a service (IaaS) clouds on a resilient Kubernetes substrate, serving a third of Fortune 100 companies in telecommunications, technology, e-commerce, and other industries. This collaboration builds on the strengths of both companies, combining the best price/performance and Kubernetes OpenStack integration capabilities of Lightbits enterprise-grade block storage with Mirantis expertise. It is a compelling offering for organizations seeking an alternative to VMware or supporting databases, real-time analytics, and AI/ML workloads.
Enterprises working with Mirantis and Lightbits can achieve the following:
- More agile IT infrastructure, with the ability to scale services seamlessly.
- Improved cost-efficiency, eliminating the need for overprovisioning to address unpredictable demand.
- Faster application development pipelines, empowering innovation and competitive advantage.
“Our collaboration with Mirantis represents a significant step forward in delivering next-gen OpenStack for Kubernetes private cloud platforms that deliver effortless scalability and unparalleled performance,” said Kam Eshghi, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Lightbits. “I am confident that our combined solution will enable enterprises to achieve greater agility, cost-efficiency, and operational simplicity for their modern data centers.”
Enterprise organizations seeking to modernize their IT infrastructure with software-defined, open-source technologies, including Kubernetes and OpenStack, can reduce complexity, enhance flexibility, and optimize performance for mission-critical, cloud-native workloads.
Source: Businesswire