Name: How Crusoe Built an AI Cloud Service for Scale
Start: 2024-02-15T16:00:00Z
End: 2024-02-15T16:00:59.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 3.5

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.

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

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

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

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

Lightbits does powerful storage that can deal with exponential amount of data. I see them as an amazing partner.

Testimonial  | Accelerate Your Database Performance On The Cloud

In this 30-minute webinar, we'll discuss the origins of Ceph and why it's a great solution for highly scalable, capacity optimized storage pools. You’ll learn how and where Ceph shines but also where its architectural shortcomings make Ceph a sub-optimal choice for today's high performance, scale-out databases and other key web-scale software infrastructure solutions. 
 
Participants will learn:
• The evolution of Ceph
• Ceph applicability to infrastructures such as OpenStack, OpenShift and other Kubernetes orchestration environments
• Why Ceph can't meet the block storage challenges of modern, scale-out, distributed databases, analytics and AI/ML workloads:
• Where Cephs falls short on consistent latency response
• Overcoming Ceph’s performance issues during rebuilds
• How you can deploy high performance, low latency block storage in the same environments Ceph integrates with, alongside your Ceph deployment

The Evolution of Ceph: Where it Falls Short, and Overcoming These Challenges

Cloud Native is the new normal - we hear about it all the time, but what does it really mean for storage? As cloud native databases proliferate, how can organizations scale efficiently to improve agility and competitiveness? And how can organizations address the challenge of protecting data, while at the same time, maximizing capacity utilization and performance while adding minimal latency?

Join today’s episode to learn about the reality many organizations are facing when it comes to juggling the requirements of cloud native databases and the limitations of local flash storage, what the key restrictions are and how you can avoid the tradeoffs in your organizations. Storage should enhance applications and databases - not dictate their behavior. 
 
Participants will learn:
- The storage needs and best practices for cloud native databases that are proliferating in today’s data centers
- Pitfalls of deploying only local flash and application based replication
- Strategies infrastructure teams can implement to improve performance, increase reliability and lower cost in cloud native environments
- How to decouple data protection from database instances for independent scaling of applications and storage

Cloud Native Databases Meet Cloud Native Storage

As enterprises and service providers adopt cloud-native applications and practices, building the infrastructure to support these environments in the most economical and efficient way is critical.

In this webinar, you'll find out real strategies hyperscalers including Facebook, Google, and Salesforce, have deployed that you can emulate to more efficiently:

· Optimize Performance
· Manage CapEx and OpEx
· Run Capacity Planning
· Maximize Utilization
· Manage Supply Chain

Presented by Amir Michael who spent almost two decades building true web-scale infrastructure at Facebook, Google and Salesforce and Alexey Stolyar, Development Director at ICC, one of the world’s leading system integration companies.

Emulating Hyperscale Infrastructure: Lessons from Facebook, Google & Salesforce

Join Lightbits Labs and Intel in this joint webinar on deploying compute, storage and networking in edge data centers. You'll learn why compute and storage is being pushed to the edge (vs. central cloud), what benefits this produces and the challenges that must be overcome for successful deployment and operation. 

We'll discuss the central role that network latency plays at the edge and how technologies from Intel and Lightbits Labs can help you solve the low latency challenges in networking and storage.

Edge Networking & Data: How to Build Edge Clouds with Low Latency Storage

When Ceph is Not Enough: There’s a new kid on the “block”

Organizations in IoT, Gaming, Logistics, Banking need their infrastructure to evolve quickly and scale efficiently to handle their most demanding applications. Most often, these next generation applications are deployed on non-relational distributed (NoSQL) databases such as MongoDB which require careful planning for scale, performance, and high availability. In this case, the storage engine you choose to rely on for efficient data access is critical.

Micron® testing has proven that SSDs combined with storage software optimized for flash are the cornerstones of data-centric application performance. Join this technical conversation to learn how Micron and Lightbits Labs can help your organization with faster data access to storage and improved endurance, utilization, and more cost-effective ways to maximize your infrastructure investments for NoSQL Databases, specifically MongoDB.

Attendees will discover:
• An intro to recently released open-source Micron Heterogeneous-Memory Storage Engine (HSE) for Linux® servers
• How to use HSE to manage data I/O to dramatically improve overall database performance
• How to enable redundant storage without triple replication
• How to deliver a scalable, highly available, high performance, and optimally utilized database environment

Presenters:
Ryan Meredith, Micron
Ryan Meredith is a senior manager of Storage Solutions Engineering at Micron. He's worked in enterprise storage since 2007 for U.S. Bank, IBM and Gemalto. He currently leads a team focused on architecting and performance testing enterprise solutions using Micron's DRAM and flash technologies. He also serves as Micron’s representative on the board of directors for the NVM Express standards body. 

Josh Goldenhar, Lightbits
Josh Goldenhar is VP of Product Marketing at Lightbits Labs. Josh is a technologist with a systems architecture and storage background who’s passionate about helping organizations solve the largest scaling issues.

Scalable High Performance Storage For NoSQL Databases

In this 30-minute webinar, we'll discuss how Containers are moving from a stateless micro-service oriented compute infrastructure to a stateful one - requiring persistent storage. Persistent storage for Kubernetes is readily available but persistent storage that performs like local NVMe flash, not so much.

Participants will learn:
• Why stateful applications are gaining ground in the container space
• The types of stateful applications that benefit from Kubernetes orchestration
• Shortcomings of "just use local flash", persistence is only part of the story
• Why applications that are "shared nothing" and protect data themselves can still benefit from shared storage 
• How you can deploy high performance, low latency block storage in Kubernetes environments and get great performance, increased reliability and lower cost

Kubernetes and Storage: A Move From Stateless to Stateful Infrastructure

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

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