Lightbits Labs joins the Mirantis Partner Program

Providing scalable and resilient high-performance storage for Kubernetes Data Platform

Lightbits Labs (Lightbits®), the creator of NVMe® over TCP and innovator of flexible, efficient, and resilient cloud data storage solutions, today 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.”

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.

Get started today, https://www.mirantis.com/partners/lightbits-labs

About Mirantis

Mirantis helps organizations achieve digital self-determination by using open-source software to provide complete control over their strategic infrastructure. The company combines intelligent automation and cloud-native expertise for managing and operating virtual machines, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud environments. Mirantis enables platform teams to deliver a public cloud experience on any infrastructure, from the data center to the edge, with one cohesive cloud platform for complete application and operations portability, a single pane of glass, and automated full-stack lifecycle management – all based on open source using open-standard APIs.

Mirantis serves many of the world’s leading enterprises, including Adobe, DocuSign, Inmarsat, PayPal, Societe Generale, and S&P Global. Learn more at www.mirantis.com.

About Lightbits Labs

Lightbits Labs® (Lightbits), invented the NVMe over TCP protocol and are pioneers in software-defined block storage that enables service providers and enterprise organizations to architect agile and efficient cloud infrastructure. Built from the ground up for high performance, scalability, resiliency, and cost-efficiency at scale, Lightbits software delivers the best price/performance for real-time analytics, transactional, and AI/ML workloads. Lightbits Labs is backed by enterprise technology leaders [Cisco Investments, Dell Technologies Capital, Intel Capital, Lenovo, and Micron] and is on a mission to deliver the most cost-efficient cloud data storage for performance-sensitive workloads.

To learn more about Lightbits Labs, visit https://www.lightbitslabs.com/ and follow Lightbits Labs on Linkedin, X, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.

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