Lightbits SDS
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Plans and prices
From Lightbits SDS's own pricing page, checked 7 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Private Cloud & Service Providers | $17.25 a month | On-premises · hardware of your choosing · dedicated customer success manager · premium technical support · all product features · per TB/Month |
| Public cloud | $17.25 a month | AWS or Azure account · installed on your VPC instance · portable software license · Lightbits technical support · per TB/Month |
The facts
Each one read from Lightbits SDS's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Architecture
- It separates compute and storage and uses standard Ethernet with NVMe/TCP.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Data services
- Listed capabilities include thin provisioning, inline compression, snapshots, clones, quality of service, and NVMe/TCP persistent volumes.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- It supports on-premises deployments on commodity x86 servers, AWS, Microsoft Azure, and hybrid deployments with license portability.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The pricing page lists Kubernetes with a CSI driver, OpenStack with a Cinder driver, and VMware vSphere with a vCenter plugin for on-premises deployment.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Management
- Lightbits lists multi-cluster management UI, gRPC, REST and CLI programmatic control, zero-downtime scalability, and automated load rebalancing.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Product
- Lightbits SDS is disaggregated, software-defined block storage designed to modernize infrastructure.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Resilience
- Listed capabilities include automatic cluster node failure recovery, ElasticRAID, user-defined failure domains, rolling upgrades, and per-volume replication policies.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Security
- The pricing page lists end-to-end encryption at rest, snapshot policies for ransomware protection, multi-tenancy with RBAC, and ADFS authentication integration.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Support
- The private-cloud offering includes premium technical support and a dedicated customer success manager; the public-cloud offering includes Lightbits technical support.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Target workloads
- Lightbits describes disaggregated storage as suited to cloud-native environments, large-scale databases, and real-time analytics.checked 7 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2016checked 28 Sep 2026
Money
- Trial
- The pricing page labels a section “Free trial” but does not state its duration or terms.checked 7 Oct 2026
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