Lightbits announced its TCO Calculator and Configurator tools. Developed in collaboration with Intel, these freely
available online tools provide Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), Financial
Services, and Telco organizations with an intuitive way of determining the
value of the Lightbits
Cloud Data Platform.
Architected
for enterprise IT organizations and CSPs supporting modern applications that
are challenged with the same business problems-how to maximize profitability by
extracting the full value of their data while providing services that are
secure, fast, highly available, and resilient. Lightbits Cloud Data Platform is
the only software-defined, disaggregated storage solution available today that
uniquely combines NVMe/TCP, with built-in Intelligent Flash Management and rich data services which can increase flash
endurance by 20X. When combined with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors
with built in AI accelerators, Intel Optane Persistent memory (PMem) and 100Gb
Intel Ethernet 800 Series Network Adapters, the solution offers the ultimate in
performance, resilience, and scalability for customers while lowering cost.
The TCO
Calculator provides price and performance comparisons of the Lightbits Cloud
Data Platform against other direct-attached storage, HCI and software-defined
storage solutions. It encompasses the full TCO environment of software,
hardware, support, power, cooling, space, and administration time. The tool
highlights the TCO savings that can be derived from using the Lightbits
software with Intel hardware. Users can download the results.
For its
part, the Configurator is a user-friendly tool that enables technical
specialists to better determine how to optimize the configuration of a
Lightbits Cloud Data Platform. The Configurator supports several OEM vendors,
including Dell, Intel, Fujitsu, HPE, Lenovo, and Supermicro.
It also
calculates the full Bill of Materials required for the installation. The
Configurator highlights the performance and raw, usable, and effective
capacities of the SSDs and nodes in the environment. Users can download the
results or have them emailed as a PDF document.