Lightbits Labs Named Storage Company of the Year and Receives Storage Hardware Award for SuperSSD NVMe/TCP at SDC Awards
3.12.2019 16:00:00 EET | Business Wire | Press release
At the recent SDC Awards gala here, Lightbits Labs took home two prestigious awards, Storage Company of the Year and Hardware Innovation of the Year. Lightbits received the nod for storage company of the year for its software defined storage (SDS) solution that brings hyperscale efficiency to on-premise cloud infrastructure with low-latency composable storage. Lightbits’ SuperSSD NVMe/TCP Storage Server , the World’s First Ultra-High Capacity, High Performance SSD Storage Appliance solution was selected as the most innovative hardware solution.
This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191203005290/en/
Lightbits Labs takes home storage company of the year and wins storage hardware award for SuperSSD NVMe/TCP at the SDC Awards. Posing with the awards from left to right are: Kam Eshghi, Chief Strategy Officer, Shirley Kirzner, Eran Kirzner, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, George Agasandian, Director of Solutions Engineering and Co-Founder, Ofir Efrati, VP of Engineering and Co-Founder, Shaul Galia, Chief Operations Officer, and Miki Avni, Chief Financial Officer. (Photo; Business Wire)
The SDC (Storage, Digitalization + Cloud) Awards, now in their 10th year, recognize and reward success in the products and services that are foundational to digital transformation. Lightbits received the honor for how the company is reimagining hyperscale storage for next-generation applications.
Co-founded by veteran Israeli entrepreneur and founder of Annapurna Avigdor Willenz, Lightbits introduced three groundbreaking technologies in its first year out of stealth mode: LightOS, LightField, and SuperSSD. The company was cited for its leadership in delivering software defined solution that runs on commodity hardware to disaggregate storage and compute over standard networks, allowing them to scale independently (increasing flexibility & efficiency) and maximizing resource utilization (lowering TCO) while delivering performance that is similar to direct-attached SSDs. Lightbits pioneered NVMe/TCP so its solution is easy to deploy at scale.
“Being recognized by our peers and voters from around the globe for this award highlights the increasingly important role of practical, smart and forward-thinking storage solutions for true digital transformation,” said Eran Kirzner, co-founder and CEO at Lightbits Labs. “Companies are responsible for vast amounts of data through both public and private clouds, and the volume of data continues to grow exponentially. We’re proud that our solutions are being recognized for their transformational role in addressing the data storage challenges that are so prevalent in enterprises today.”
In March 2019, Lightbits introduced its groundbreaking LightOS and LightField. The LightOS software and LightField storage acceleration card provide a high-performance, end-to-end disaggregation solution that can scale without requiring any changes to data center clients or network infrastructure. They were the industry’s first NVMe/TCP solutions to provide a Global Flash Translation Layer (GFTL) running over high-performance standard networks. The solutions allow private clouds and software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers to capitalize on the application performance of using local NVMe SSDs with the simplicity and efficiency of hyperscale solutions.
As trailblazers of a new storage paradigm, Lightbits’ solutions are successfully being used in industry-leading cloud data centers around the globe. The company is gaining industry recognition for its ground-breaking solutions and has received three industry awards over the past six months.
Lightbits Labs Resources
For additional information, contact info@lightibtslabs.com
About Lightbits Labs™
Lightbits Labs, founded in 2016, is remaking modern cloud infrastructure on a global scale. The company’s mission is to reinvent the way storage and networking are conducted in data centers. As trailblazers in this field, its solutions are successfully being used in industry-leading private cloud and enterprise data centers around the globe. With strategic investors including Dell Technology Capital and Micron, and with investments from Chairman and co-founder Avigdor Willenz, Lip-Bu Tan (CEO of Cadence and chairman of Walden International) and Marius Nacht, (Co-Founder and Chairman of Check Point Software), Lightbits Labs is disaggregating storage and compute to improve performance and TCO. Learn more at www.lightbitslabs.com or contact us at info@lightbitslabs.com.
To view this piece of content from cts.businesswire.com, please give your consent at the top of this page.
View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191203005290/en/
Contact information
Alan Ryan/Marianne Dempsey
alanryan@rainierco.com/ mdempsey@rainierco.com
508-475-0025, ext. 116 or 115
About Business Wire
For more than 50 years, Business Wire has been the global leader in press release distribution and regulatory disclosure.
Subscribe to releases from Business Wire
Subscribe to all the latest releases from Business Wire by registering your e-mail address below. You can unsubscribe at any time.
Latest releases from Business Wire
Owkin to License K Pro and Multimodal Data to Servier to Advance Oncology Research11.9.2026 15:00:00 EEST | Press release
Owkin, the agentic AI company pioneering the first automated AI scientist to revolutionize drug discovery and development, today announced an agreement with Servier, an independent international pharmaceutical group governed by a foundation, to license K Pro, Owkin’s AI Scientist, together with multimodal patient data to advance the company’s oncology research. Under the agreement, Owkin will make multimodal patient data from its MOSAIC network accessible for analysis to Servier’s research teams, within K Pro. This agreement is the next chapter in Owkin and Servier’s collaboration, their previous work together being in patient subgroup identification, also in oncology. K Pro is Owkin’s AI scientist. It brings multimodal patient data and specialized biological agentic AI to drive smarter and faster decision-making to each step of the pharmaceutical value chain. K Pro utilizes specialized biological tools, leveraging a decade of knowledge gained through pharmaceutical partnerships and st
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Water Award Accepts Entries Until 30 September 202611.9.2026 11:09:00 EEST | Press release
The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Water Award continues to attract strong interest from innovators, researchers and institutions worldwide as it enters the final phase of its fifth cycle. Overseen by the UAE Water Aid Foundation (Suqia UAE) under the umbrella of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives and with a total prize value of USD 1 million, the award promotes the development of sustainable solutions that help tackle water scarcity and improve access to safe water, particularly in communities most affected by water shortages. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260911305420/en/ HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Suqia UAE (Photo: AETOSWire) Applicants are encouraged to submit comprehensive information about their submissions, thereby helping the judging panel evaluate the various stages and mechanisms of their innovation, including water production, treatme
SES Launches New Content Orchestration and Hybrid Delivery Platform11.9.2026 08:30:00 EEST | Press release
SES today announced the launch of SES CORE, the first-of-its-kind content orchestration and hybrid delivery platform, designed to enable broadcasters and media customers to manage, monitor, and enable transmission of content seamlessly via satellite, fiber, and IP. Built on infrastructure-neutral architecture, SES CORE provides a single user interface for content delivery. By bringing multiple distribution technologies into a unified orchestration layer, the platform enables customers to select the most effective content delivery path, guaranteeing service reliability and consistent delivery of high-quality content to global partners. Through SES CORE, customers gain real-time visibility into service status by monitoring active content feeds. The platform provides network performance insights, automates operational tasks, and offers redundancy options. Together, those capabilities help broadcasters to manage content distribution more independently and efficiently, simplify operations a
Ant International's Agentic Mobile Protocol Rolls Out Globally with Wallets and Acquirers; Initiating Collaboration on KYA Interoperability Framework with Mastercard and Visa11.9.2026 06:26:00 EEST | Press release
As Ant International builds out its Agentic Mobile Protocol (AMP) with deeper interoperability and open-source initiatives, fintech and payment leaders are deploying the protocol globally at an accelerated pace, to enable trusted agentic transactions in large-scale commercial scenarios. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260910162444/en/ Ant International's Agentic Mobile Protocol is rolling out across the global mobile payment ecosystem Towards building the World's Largest Agentic Payment Network The AI economy is built on the ability of the financial industry to ensure AI agents interact to make decisions and execute transactions end-to-end for consumers and businesses, securely, smoothly and with full authorisation across all payment rails, especially in prevalent mobile payment scenarios through QR scans, card swipes or phone taps. Launched in April 2026, the AMP is an open payment protocol built by Ant Inter
Peter Rauch Named President of Mountain Hardwear11.9.2026 02:00:00 EEST | Press release
Columbia Sportswear Company (Nasdaq: COLM), a leading innovator in active outdoor apparel, footwear, accessories and equipment, today announced that Peter Rauch will be the new President of the Mountain Hardwear brand. Mountain Hardwear's mission is to encourage and equip people to seek wilder paths. With over 30 years of wild wisdom, Mountain Hardwear continues to offer premium technical apparel, accessories and equipment products for climbers, mountaineers, skiers, snowboarders, and trail athletes. Troy Sicotte will transition to a new role as Global Vice President, Sales for Mountain Hardwear. Mr. Rauch transitions from his current role as General Manager of Columbia Brand North America and brings nearly 20 years of leadership experience across the Columbia family of brands, deep industry knowledge and a genuine passion for the outdoors. "Throughout his career, Peter has built strong cross-functional partnerships, developed high-performing teams, and delivered meaningful business re
In our pressroom you can read all our latest releases, find our press contacts, images, documents and other relevant information about us.
Visit our pressroom