As enterprises modernize their data platforms to support AI, real-time analytics, and cloud-native workloads, legacy storage architectures are increasingly proving inadequate. Lightbits Labs, the inventor of NVMe over TCP storage, closed 2025 with record growth as organizations across industries standardize on software-defined, NVMe over TCP-based storage to build scalable, AI-ready infrastructure.
This momentum reflects a broader industry shift away from traditional SAN and HCI architectures toward disaggregated, software-defined storage (SDS) designed to deliver predictable high performance at scale—without proprietary hardware lock-in.
A Turning Point for Enterprise Storage Architecture
Data-intensive workloads such as AI training and inference, high-frequency transactions, and real-time analytics have fundamentally changed how enterprises evaluate storage. Performance consistency, latency, scalability, power efficiency, and cost economics are now strategic considerations—not secondary ones.
According to Lightbits CEO and co-founder Eran Kirzner, this shift is directly influencing purchasing decisions. In 2025, Lightbits delivered a threefold year-over-year increase in software purchases, doubled its average deal size, and recorded a first-time deployment exceeding four times the typical capacity. These results signal growing confidence in NVMe over TCP as a production-ready foundation for modern data platforms.
Why NVMe over TCP Is Gaining Enterprise Adoption
Designed natively for NVMe over TCP, Lightbits’ software-defined block storage delivers ultra-low latency, massive throughput, and consistent performance using standard Ethernet and commodity hardware. This approach enables enterprises to modernize infrastructure without the cost and complexity associated with proprietary systems.
Customers deploying Lightbits report up to five times greater hardware efficiency compared to legacy SDS solutions, such as Ceph Storage. These gains translate directly into reduced infrastructure costs, lower power consumption, and simplified operations—critical advantages as data center demands scale.
Powering AI, Kubernetes, and Cloud-Native Platforms
Lightbits is increasingly deployed as shared storage infrastructure for AI workloads, real-time analytics, cloud-native applications, and transactional systems. The platform integrates seamlessly with Kubernetes, KubeVirt, OpenStack, and enterprise Linux environments, making it well-suited for modern on-premises cloud architectures.
Over the past year, Lightbits expanded its ecosystem with enhancements focused on performance, resilience, and operational simplicity:
Advanced Management and Integration
The company introduced Intelligent Cluster Management to simplify scaling and joined the Mirantis Partner Program to deliver resilient Kubernetes storage.
Hardware-Optimized Performance
Lightbits launched an industry-first Kubernetes storage solution optimized for AI workloads using AMD technology and NVMe over TCP storage on Supermicro systems.
Strategic Ecosystem Alliances
Partnerships with CYBERTEC strengthened large-scale PostgreSQL deployments for financial services and e-commerce, while collaboration with Arctera demonstrated performance-optimized resilience for Red Hat OpenShift environments.
Supermicro validated these gains through a joint reference architecture combining its H14 server series with Lightbits storage, delivering measurable improvements in I/O performance, latency reduction, and hardware efficiency.
Industry Recognition and Leadership Expansion
In 2025, Lightbits further solidified its leadership position by expanding its executive team and earning industry recognition. The appointment of Sagy Volkov as Field CTO strengthened strategic technical engagement with customers, while accolades such as a Data Breakthrough Award and designation as a GigaOm Fast-Moving Leader in the Primary Storage Report highlighted the company’s innovation and execution.
Industry analysts underscore the significance of this shift. As AI and real-time data workloads accelerate, legacy storage is increasingly viewed as a barrier to innovation. Flexible, disaggregated software-defined storage with predictable performance and cost efficiency has become a strategic necessity—one that native NVMe over TCP architecture is uniquely positioned to address.
Scaling Modern Infrastructure Globally
With continued expansion planned across the Americas, Europe, and other high-growth regions, Lightbits Labs remains focused on delivering high-performance, cost-efficient block storage for the modern era. A strong pipeline of new products, partnerships, and industry engagements—including Red Hat Summit events, STAC Summits, and KubeCon EU—signals sustained momentum.
About Lightbits Labs
Lightbits Labs® (Lightbits) invented the NVMe over TCP storage protocol, embedding it natively into their software-defined block storage to deliver ultra-low latency and exceptional throughput while leveraging commodity infrastructure—essential for reducing the cost and complexity of data infrastructure at scale. Built from the ground up for high performance, scalability, resiliency, and cost efficiency, Lightbits software delivers the best price-performance value for real-time analytics, transactional, and AI 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 best-in-class block storage for performance-sensitive workloads.
