Lightbits Labs

Lightbits Labs is a private storage-technology company that develops disaggregated NVMe-over-TCP (NVMe/TCP) storage software, enabling cloud and enterprise data centers to separate compute from storage across standard Ethernet networks. The company was co-founded by Avigail Zer, Kam Eshghi, and Ron Sege, among others, and is headquartered in San Jose, California, with R&D operations in Israel.

Lightbits Labs' primary product is its LightOS software stack, which presents NVMe-over-TCP block storage to any host over a standard TCP/IP network without requiring specialized hardware such as RDMA-capable NICs. The target buyers are cloud service providers and enterprise data center operators seeking to improve storage efficiency and reduce costs by pooling NVMe SSDs across commodity servers. The technical differentiation centers on a full software implementation of the NVMe/TCP protocol with low-latency, high-throughput characteristics that do not require InfiniBand or RoCE fabrics.

The flagship product, LightOS, runs on standard x86 servers and exposes shared NVMe block storage over TCP to compute nodes running Linux. Lightbits also contributed to the standardization of NVMe/TCP within the NVM Express industry body, which became part of the NVMe 1.4 specification.

The company's engineering and R&D team is based in Israel. Lightbits Labs draws on Israeli storage and networking talent, consistent with Israel's deep bench in hardware-accelerated networking and storage software. Detailed public information on specific Israeli office locations or headcount is limited.