Nebul Chooses Lightbits to Deliver Powerful AI Cloud
09 July 2024 - 11:00PM
Business Wire
Set to revolutionize AI services sovereign to
the EU with NVMe over TCP software-defined data platform
Lightbits Labs (Lightbits®), the inventor of NVMe® over TCP and
pioneer in modern, software-defined cloud data platforms, today
announced that Nebul, has chosen Lightbits as the storage
foundation on which to build cutting-edge AI cloud services.
Nebul’s service helps companies across the EU unify their data,
deploy NVIDIA-based Private AI, and extract actionable insights
from their data through a robust and protected cloud
infrastructure. Lightbits enables the AI cloud service provider to
offer their customers 16x better performance at significantly lower
costs than the alternatives while at the same time supporting their
sustainability mission. The high performance and low latency
capabilities of Lightbits, combined with the versatility in
compatibility with common orchestration environments–including
Kubernetes, VMware, OpenShift, and OpenStack–make it an ideal
choice for cloud builders or service providers supporting diverse
performance-sensitive workloads at scale.
Nebul chose Lightbits for its superior performance, resilience,
and comprehensive data services, which include three-way
replication and QoS. “We considered the usual storage providers,
but even the software-defined ones tend to have a ‘closed recipe’
now in terms of infrastructure. We prefer to build with software
that’s open, innovative, and especially performant,” said Arnold
Juffer, CEO and Founder of Nebul. “With Lightbits as part of our
platform, we can offer our customers 16 times the performance at
half the cost of AI services from the hyperscalers.” This
remarkable efficiency allows Nebul to improve large language model
(LLM) performance and handle latency-sensitive workloads under
stress without compromising cost or reliability.
As a service provider, Nebul realized their customers would
require block storage for latency-sensitive workloads commonly
found in AI, such as RAG model training and inference. These
workloads are built on vector, real-time, and other NoSQL databases
that demand high performance at scale. The Lightbits cloud data
platform scales beyond the petabyte level and delivers performance
of up to 75 million IOPS and consistent sub-millisecond tail
latency even under a heavy load. This exceptional performance
profile makes it the ideal solution for vector and other
AI-oriented databases whether they manage real-time AI application
data or store training parameters and tags.
"With Lightbits in place, Nebul can now provide EU-based
organizations with a specialty AI cloud that runs on NVIDIA AI
Enterprise with certified tools, frameworks, and AI apps to meet
the demands of today’s most intensive applications,” commented Eran
Kirzner, CEO and co-founder of Lightbits. “The data platform is
incredibly flexible running in container environments, like
Kubernetes and Azure Kubernetes Solution (AKS), delivering
accelerated performance and efficiency for cloud-native
applications at scale. We attribute this versatility combined with
the unparalleled speed, scalability, and cost-efficiency to the
increase in interest and cloud service use cases, like AI.”
The Lightbits cloud data platform enables enterprises to build
AI clouds with extreme performance at scale to capitalize on
rapidly expanding AI opportunities.
“Nebul evaluated many systems and conducted rigorous testing
seeking a solution that could handle extreme conditions and high
loads without performance degradation. Lightbits emerged as the
clear leader, meeting Nebul's stringent requirements and providing
a platform for continuous innovation,” added Jos Keulers, Founder
of NVMestorage.com, a Lightbits Luminary Leader Partner. “With a
solution attuned to the performance and scalability requirements of
AI, we’re in a great position to help our customers architect a
future-proofed data platform with the ability to support modern AI
workloads.”
To learn more about how Nebul built an AI Cloud service with
Lightbits, read the case study.
Additional resources:
- Lightbits Data Platform for AI and Machine Learning
- Traffic lights, AI and everything in between…(an introduction
to software-defined storage for RAG)
- The Rise of High-Performance Cloud Storage for AI
About Lightbits Labs
Lightbits Labs® (Lightbits), invented the NVMe over TCP protocol
and are pioneers in software-defined block storage that enables
organizations to architect IT infrastructure with cloud-like
efficiency. Built from the ground up to solve the common data
center challenges of agility, scalability, and efficiency while
delivering the highest performance and lowest latencies for
business-critical workloads at scale. Lightbits is backed by
enterprise technology leaders [Cisco Investments, Dell Technologies
Capital, Intel Capital, Lenovo, and Micron] and is on a mission to
deliver a robust cloud storage platform with unmatched performance,
cost-efficiency, agility, and flexibility.
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