Name: Unlock More Performance for MongoDB on AWS
Start: 2023-10-19T17:00:00Z
End: 2023-10-19T17:00:36.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

Lightbits Labs® offers a complete data platform for turning your cloud vision into a reality. Whether you're migrating demanding workloads to the public cloud, architecting a scalable, high-performance private or hybrid cloud, or launching a cloud service built on your expertise, Lightbits has a software-defined storage solution for you. 

Lightbits eliminates the performance bottlenecks and inflexibility commonly associated with legacy, traditional, or cloud-native storage by delivering high performance and consistent low latency along with built-in enterprise data services. All at predictably lower costs, whether deployed in the public cloud or in your data center. 

Wondering how Lightbits could work for you? Watch our webinar series.

In today's dynamic cloud landscape, multi-tenancy is crucial for maximizing resource efficiency, ensuring tenant isolation, and optimizing operational costs. Join our webinar to explore how to achieve efficient, secure, and high-performance multi-tenancy by combining the power of Kubernetes orchestration with software-defined block storage. 

We'll show you:
1. How native support for the Kubernetes Container Storage Interface (CSI) enables effortless automation of storage provisioning and lifecycle management, seamlessly integrating with your CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows. 
2. How Lightbits simplifies multi-tenant management by directly mapping Kubernetes StorageClass definitions into isolated projects, providing granular control over resource boundaries and performance for individual teams, namespaces, or workloads. 
3. How the powerful Kubernetes-Lightbits combination enables cloud service providers to deliver secure, efficient, and high-performance services with enterprise-grade data resiliency and scalability, while maintaining full control over storage and compute resources.


Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from experts for implementing multi-tenancy in a Kubernetes-Lightbits environment.

Register now!

Unlocking Multi-Tenancy in Kubernetes with Software-Defined Storage

One of the biggest challenges in virtualization is maintaining high-performance storage while enabling live migration using traditional Fibre Channel SAN, which has constrained limitations. For faster and more efficient virtualized infrastructure, more organizations are moving to more flexible and scalable network-based storage, with NVMe over TCP a clear leader.

In this webinar, we'll show recent tests that demonstrate how Lightbits’ software-defined storage, leveraging NVMe over TCP, enables live migrations of VMs in OpenShift. Discover how storage minimizes the impact of live migrations and provides continuous and stable access to backend storage, allowing for the uninterrupted running of VMs on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. 

* Incorporating Block Storage into OpenShift: Automating the installation, configuration, and lifecycle management of software components to reduce manual intervention and ensure uninterrupted integration using Lightbits Labs’ CSI Driver.

* Reduce Network Latency: Advancements in networking are changing how storage networks are designed for the next generation of virtualization. Due to its ability to provide high performance at a substantially lower cost, NVMe over TCP is emerging as a viable alternative to traditional SAN-based storage for similar workloads that require block devices. 

* Next-Gen Virtualization Architecture: Storage is often the linchpin of a successful VM migration, directly impacting performance, flexibility, scalability, and reliability. Lightbits software-defined storage on open-source Red Hat OpenShift-V offers organizations accelerated application delivery, reduced operational costs, and minimized risks like vendor lock-in. 

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from experts in storage optimization techniques for OpenShift.

Register now!

Keep Your VMs Running Smoothly: Live Migration Without the Storage Bottleneck

Red Hat Summit Video

In an era defined by explosive data growth and relentless infrastructure demands, the need for agile, efficient solutions has never been greater. This webinar delves into the transformative power of cloud-native, software-defined architectures, specifically focusing on building highly scalable and performant database infrastructure. 

Webinar topics include:
* The Data Deluge and the Cloud-Native Imperative. Discover how cloud-native principles and software-defined approaches are essential for achieving a cloud operations model for maximum flexibility and efficiency.

* Kubernetes-Orchestrated Scalable Postgres DB. We’ll demonstrate practical implementations of scalable Postgres database infrastructures using K8s orchestration using real-world examples.

* The Critical Role of Software-Defined Infrastructure. We’ll examine a real-world IaaS use case of NVMe/TCP-based, API-driven infrastructure, which has become the linchpin for achieving optimal efficiency, application performance, and operational agility in these complex infrastructures.

Join us to gain actionable insights and practical knowledge for building the next generation of scalable, high-performance data infrastructure.

Kubernetes Orchestrated Postgres Databases: Why Storage Performance is Key

Organizations modernizing their data centers will prioritize software-defined solutions combined with NVMe storage that offer resiliency, security, availability, scalability, flexibility, and efficiency for supporting I/O-intensive applications at scale. While DAS and SAN storage models are commonly used in the data center, they come with inherent limitations in scalability, flexibility, and cost.

Join us to discover the next-gen cloud technology enabler, NVMe over TCP storage, which has proven to deliver higher performance and better efficiency without needing specialized hardware. We’ll show you why some of the largest organizations in the world are combining NVMe/TCP, software-defined storage with open-source solutions to meet their data center priorities. 

Join us to Learn:
* Simplified Storage Provisioning and Management: We’ll demonstrate how software-defined storage integrates seamlessly with modern open-source platforms and highlight the ease of creating and managing persistent volumes in Kubernetes.

* Advanced Resiliency and Availability: Learn how easy it is to manage multiple clusters by demonstrating Photon UI for advanced clustering, dynamic scaling, and load balancing. 

* High Performance and Low Consistent Latency: We’ll show you unbeatable performance and scalability benchmark results.

* Data Mobility for DR and Backup Strategies: Learn how easy it is to clone volumes across clusters, cross-region data replication, and more.

A software-defined data platform architecture strategy can result in a more performant, flexible, and resilient cloud infrastructure. 

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from experts to learn how.

Modernize Your Data Center for Scalability, Flexibility, and Efficiency

Application timeouts can be a critical bottleneck in OpenStack environments, leading to frustrated end users, lost productivity, and blown SLAs. If you are considering using, or already using an OpenStack-based cloud then watch this webinar to learn valuable techniques to optimize your environment for performance and more!

In this webinar, we'll explain how software-defined storage (SDS) leveraging NVMe over TCP accelerates the performance and reliability of OpenStack environments by eliminating application timeouts. Discover how SDS engineered for consistent low latency ensures your applications run smoothly, even for the most demanding workloads at scale. Join us to learn how to keep your applications fast, responsive, and timeout-free.


Webinar topics include:
* Performance optimization: High latency and poor performance can lead to delays in data access and processing, which can cause applications to time out as they wait for critical operations to complete. Ensuring optimal performance and low latency in the storage layer is crucial for minimizing application timeouts and maintaining a responsive and reliable environment.

*Reduce network latency: The use of Fibre Channel (FC) and iSCSI can impact network latency delaying data transfer, leading to increased application response times and potential timeouts. Cloud architectures using NMVe over TCP can significantly reduce latency and improve application performance.

*Next-gen cloud technology: for organizations committed to data center modernization for greater efficiency, flexibility, and performance offering confidence to application owners that their cloud platform will support the changing needs of their business.  

Migrating to an OpenStack environment with software-defined storage can result in a more performant, flexible, and resilient cloud infrastructure. 

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from experts in storage optimization techniques for OpenStack.

No More Waiting: How Software-Defined Storage Eliminates Application Timeouts for OpenStack

Modernizing your data center with OpenStack and software-defined storage can result in a more flexible, cost-effective, and high-performing cloud infrastructure. This webinar will offer valuable techniques to optimize OpenStack-based clouds for price/performance. 

We’ll dive deep into how to architect a storage platform for OpenStack, illustrating how to optimize your environment for performance and availability by leveraging OpenStack’s powerful integrations and how to ensure your I/O-intensive applications won’t time out. 

Webinar topics include:
* Price/performance optimization: OpenStack allows for sophisticated storage integration, including block storage, which can be tuned for I/O-intensive workloads at scale.
* Greater flexibility: Software-defined, open-source, modular architecture enables maximum control, avoids vendor lock-in, and offers more flexibility in tailoring the data platform to your specific workload needs.
* Cloud technology innovation: discover fast, scalable, reliable cutting-edge cloud technology

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from experts in storage optimization techniques for OpenStack. 

Register now!

Price/Performance Optimization Techniques for OpenStack Clouds

According to experts, data infrastructure is the most significant hurdle to AI model training success, with high latency being one of the most important problems. Latency can slow down response times, making the system less effective, especially for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) vectors, streaming, and other databases. Selecting the right data platform is crucial to keeping your AI models running at full speed.

Join Lightbits and Supermicro and learn how to keep your AI models humming at full speed with a data platform that delivers the lowest latencies, highest performance, and scalability, all while lowering your infrastructure costs. 
- Common infrastructure pitfalls to avoid that introduce latency.
- The impact of low latency and high performance on GPU utilization and model performance.
- Practical tips for lowering costs, improving infrastructure efficiency, and hardware utilization.
- The role of block storage to handle the growing demands of vector databases in LLMs and chatbots.

Presenters:
Sagy Volkov, Distinguished Performance Architect, Lightbits Labs
Wendell Wenjen, Director of Storage Market Development, Supermicro
Sherry Lin, Storage Solution Product Manager, Supermicro
Janet Lafleur, Director of Product Marketing, Lightbits Labs

Learn how Lightbits' high-performance, scalable block storage and Supermicro's powerful computing solutions can transform your infrastructure to optimize your AI workflows.

Don’t Let Latency Slow Down Your AI Model Training

Enterprise-grade block storage that’s 16x faster than Ceph–at a lower TCO

Cloud operating models and cloud-native architectures have redefined how applications, storage, and networks interact within the data center just as much as they have in the public cloud. To meet these new challenges, enterprises are turning to software-defined storage to build modern data platforms for their private clouds.

While Ceph has emerged as a popular software-defined storage option, it’s challenged to scale up to meet the demands of storage-intensive workloads in AI, eCommerce, financial services, and more. That’s where Lightbits with the power of NVMe/TCP shines.

Attend this webinar to learn how Lightbits block storage deliver s16x better performance than Ceph in a Kubernetes environment, plus enterprise resiliency and data management with efficiencies that reduce your overall TCO.

Lightbits: The Next Evolution Beyond Ceph

How to send database performance soaring with cost-effective cloud services.

IT and DevOps teams are increasingly turning to Kubernetes to deploy and manage databases in distributed environments. But successful deployments depend on infrastructure that can ensure high performance and low latency to meet your applications’ SLAs.  

If you’ve considered PostgreSQL offerings from AWS, Azure and GCP, but are concerned you’ll have to pay too much to get the performance you need, then this webinar is for you.

Join PostgreSQL, cloud, and storage experts who will cover:

Best practices for running PostgreSQL on Kubernetes
Optimizing your container environment for stateful applications
Data security and data sovereignty considerations
Detailed PostgreSQL performance benchmarks with Lightbits software-defined storage

Supercharge your PostgreSQL on Kubernetes

Insights from up-leveling a compute cloud for higher performance—and higher margins

With today’s AI boom, more enterprises are turning to cloud-based services to capitalize on AI without having to make a large capital investment. To serve their needs, service providers such as Crusoe have launched specialty clouds that offer enterprises fast, economical, easy to use high-performance compute services.

Featured recently on 60 Minutes, Crusoe recovers stranded energy to power their cloud service, enabling customers to run AI/ML and HPC workloads at petabyte scale. Through careful curation of their tech stack they built a service that delivers the same efficiencies as a hyperscale provider, but managed by their lean-and-mean DevOps team.

Learn from three leaders in cloud infrastructure:
- How to engineer a platform for dynamic, fast resource provisioning and allocation
- How to architect a system that reduces administrative overhead and improves margins 
- How a software-defined storage forms the foundation for a flexible, resilient tech stack
- All about modern systems that deliver the speed and scale required for AI/ML and HPC

How Crusoe Built an AI Cloud Service for Scale

We understand the challenges that you face in managing databases on the public cloud, especially when dealing with the complexities of scaling out to meet the demands of thousands of users and millions of transactions.

Why Attend?
Fast and Easy Cloning: Learn how Lightbits provides a solution to the challenge of native cloud storage lacking snapshots or cloning features that make scaling out a cumbersome task. Discover how we facilitate fast and easy cloning, allowing you to efficiently scale your databases without compromising on performance.
Cost-Effective Scaling: Understand the financial implications of native cloud storage's lack of proper cloning. Lightbits eliminates the need for expensive solutions by providing cloning free of charge, enabling you to scale your databases while staying within your budget constraints.
Ensuring SLAs as Your Business Grows: Explore how Lightbits empowers eCommerce and FinTech companies to meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs) seamlessly, even as your business experiences exponential growth. Discover the strategic advantages of our solution in enhancing the performance and reliability of your database applications.

The Power of the Clone: How and When to Scale Out Databases in the Cloud

What’s holding you back from migrating your VMware environment to AVS? 
Is it performance? Is it projected costs? Is it availability limitations? 

Join Scott Sinclair, Practice Director, ESG, Kam Eshghi, Co-Founder, Chief Strategy Officer and Abel Gordon, Chief System Architect, Lightbits Labs for an interactive live webinar discussing how Lightbits gives you a more efficient way to run your virtualized workloads on AVS. With Lightbits, you can provision high-performance block storage that dynamically scales as demand on your VMware environment grows–without the expense of deploying additional ESXi servers. And Lightbits offers built-in 3-way multi-zone replication for the highest availability. 

In this webinar, Lightbits will show you how you can:
- Give your apps sub-millisecond latency–the lowest available on AVS
- Control AVS costs with storage optimizations and predictable low pricing
- Prevent service outages through multi-AZ redundancy
- Enable multi-tenancy across multiple Azure workloads and environments

How to Minimize Your TCO for High-Performance Workloads on Azure VMware Solution

Join Lightbits Labs Sagy Volkov, Distinguished Performance Architect and Janet Lafleur, Director of Product Marketing at Lightbits Labs for an informative webinar on databases on AWS and Azure.

Are charges for top-tier block storage on AWS or Azure chewing through your budget? 

It doesn’t have to be that way. With a smarter storage architecture you can bump up performance for your demanding Oracle, MySQL, and MongoDB databases–without paying top-tier prices for EBS io2 Block Express or Azure ultra disk or Premium SSD v2. 

Attend this webinar to learn how to:
- Give your database workloads scalable IOPS and consistent sub-millisecond latency
- Compare Oracle, MySQL, and MongoDB performance across different storage options
- Reduce the number of virtual servers required to get the storage performance you need
- Control even costs more with thin provisioning, compression, and SAN-style provisioning

Speed Wars: Database in the Cloud Edition

Are you dragging your feet on migrating storage-intensive workloads to the cloud? Despite the wide range of storage options available for the cloud, many enterprises find it difficult to get everything that their Oracle, SQL, MySQL, MongoDB and other databases require. If the cloud storage delivers enough performance, it’s often too expensive and cumbersome to manage at scale. And it may not offer the essential enterprise data services for resiliency and data protection.

In this informative, on-demand webinar featuring technical experts from Microsoft, Sycomp and Lightsbits, discuss migration to the cloud.

What You'll Learn:
- The strengths and limitations of the storage options available on Azure today
- How a SAN in the Cloud approach can streamline provisioning and optimize operations
- How to maintain performance and control cloud charges as your applications scale
- What data services you need to make your cloud environment more resilient

How to Migrate Your Most Challenging Workloads to Azure with Confidence

This video demonstrates how the Lightbits multitenancy capability works with VMware vCenter Plugin v1.3. Lightbits vCenter Plugin provides a simple and intuitive UI for the vSphere administrator. Common UI-driven workflows that are demonstrated in this video include: volume creation, ESXi host to volume attachment/detachment, automated volume snapshots and clones, automated VMFS-format, and datastore resizing. 
Lightbits is a VMware Technology Alliance Partner.

Lightbits Multi-tenancy Works with VMware vCenter Plugin

A case study testimonial describing how Lightbits software-defined storage on Intel high-performance technologies enables fast, more secure, multi-tenant edge cloud services for Zenlayer that are easier to manage and more cost-efficient.

Accelerating Zenlayer's Edge Cloud Services

Join Lightbits Labs Sagy Volkov, Distinguished Performance Architect and Janet Lafleur, Product Marketing Strategy & Communications for an informative webinar on MongoDB.

Is the cloud delivering the performance you need for MongoDB?

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Join experts with Lightbits Labs for an informative webinar to understand the results of testing conducted by Lightbits of MongoDB performance with two storage options: Lightbits SAN-in-the-cloud offering and the EBS io2 Block Express option. Understand, why choosing the right storage for your MongoDB databases is critical for both transaction performance and for significantly reducing the cost of running databases in the cloud.

Enterprises have turned to MongoDB and other NoSQL databases for their strength in analyzing data and their flexibility for rapidly growing and evolving data sets. They’re a perfect fit for cloud apps, from eCommerce to edge data to social networks. But if your cloud performance doesn’t keep up with your database growth, you’re at risk of overloading your app and overrunning your cloud budget.

Attend this webinar and learn:

How to pinpoint the bottlenecks behind your performance issues
How software-defined storage can boost compute performance in public cloud
How to control public cloud costs as your database scales
How to make your cloud environment more resilient with enterprise data services

Unlock More Performance for MongoDB on AWS

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