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Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Apr 26, 2025 · Industry Insights

Why Distributed Storage Is the Next Backbone of the Digital Economy

This article analyzes the evolution of distributed storage—from traditional compute‑storage separation to edge‑centric, AI‑enabled architectures—covering service models, key technologies such as CXL and erasure coding, reliability strategies, performance optimizations, vendor landscapes, and emerging green and intelligent trends.

AI storageCXLNVMe-oF
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Why Distributed Storage Is the Next Backbone of the Digital Economy
AntTech
AntTech
Mar 22, 2024 · Cloud Native

LightPool: A Cloud‑Native NVMe‑oF Based High‑Performance Storage Pool Architecture for Distributed Databases

The article introduces LightPool, an open‑source, cloud‑native storage‑pool architecture presented at HPCA 2024, which leverages NVMe‑over‑Fabric, Kubernetes CSI integration, and a lightweight user‑space engine to deliver high‑performance, elastic, and highly available storage for large‑scale distributed databases while reducing cost and improving resource utilization.

NVMe-oFcloud-nativedistributed-database
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LightPool: A Cloud‑Native NVMe‑oF Based High‑Performance Storage Pool Architecture for Distributed Databases
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Mar 21, 2024 · Cloud Native

LightPool: An NVMe‑oF‑Based High‑Performance and Lightweight Storage Pool Architecture for Cloud‑Native Distributed Databases

The article presents LightPool, a cloud‑native storage‑pooling solution that leverages NVMe‑over‑Fabric, Kubernetes‑based scheduling, and a lightweight user‑space engine to deliver high‑performance, low‑cost, and highly available storage for large‑scale distributed databases while eliminating traditional bottlenecks.

KubernetesNVMe-oFcloud-native
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LightPool: An NVMe‑oF‑Based High‑Performance and Lightweight Storage Pool Architecture for Cloud‑Native Distributed Databases
Aikesheng Open Source Community
Aikesheng Open Source Community
Mar 21, 2024 · Cloud Native

LightPool: A NVMe‑oF‑Based High‑Performance and Lightweight Storage Pool Architecture for Cloud‑Native Distributed Databases

The article introduces LightPool, an open‑source NVMe‑over‑Fabric storage pool system presented at HPCA 2024, which combines cloud‑native design, high‑performance lightweight storage engine, and advanced scheduling to improve resource efficiency, cost, and availability for large‑scale distributed databases.

Cloud Native StorageHPCALiteIO
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LightPool: A NVMe‑oF‑Based High‑Performance and Lightweight Storage Pool Architecture for Cloud‑Native Distributed Databases
AntData
AntData
Mar 21, 2024 · Cloud Computing

LightPool: A Cloud‑Native NVMe‑oF Based High‑Performance Storage Pool Architecture for Distributed Databases

The article introduces LightPool, an open‑source cloud‑native storage‑pool architecture built on NVMe‑over‑Fabric that delivers high performance, low cost, and high availability for large‑scale distributed databases, and explains its design, scheduling, storage engine, and hot‑upgrade/migration capabilities presented at the 30th IEEE HPCA conference.

LiteIONVMe-oFcloud-native
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LightPool: A Cloud‑Native NVMe‑oF Based High‑Performance Storage Pool Architecture for Distributed Databases
Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Feb 9, 2024 · Industry Insights

Why NVMe‑oF Is Redefining High‑Performance Storage Networks

This article explains how the shift from HDD to ultra‑fast SSDs and NVMe changes storage networking, compares NVMe with legacy SCSI, details NVMe‑oF transport options (FC, TCP, RDMA), examines RDMA variants, and outlines the network requirements and trade‑offs for deploying NVMe‑oF in modern data centers.

Data centerNVMeNVMe-oF
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Why NVMe‑oF Is Redefining High‑Performance Storage Networks
AntTech
AntTech
Jan 25, 2024 · Cloud Native

LiteIO: Open‑Source High‑Performance Cloud‑Native Block Device Service

LiteIO is an open‑source, high‑performance, cloud‑native block device service that uses NVMe‑oF and SPDK to provide point‑to‑point storage pooling, enabling efficient FinOps, serverless scaling, hot upgrades, zero‑copy I/O, snapshots, and thin provisioning for databases and applications in Kubernetes.

Cloud NativeKubernetesLiteIO
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LiteIO: Open‑Source High‑Performance Cloud‑Native Block Device Service
Aikesheng Open Source Community
Aikesheng Open Source Community
Jan 25, 2024 · Cloud Native

Introducing LiteIO: Open‑Source High‑Performance Cloud‑Native Block Device Service

LiteIO is an open‑source, cloud‑native block device service that leverages NVMe‑oF and SPDK to provide high‑performance, scalable storage for Kubernetes‑based workloads, improving storage utilization and enabling FinOps‑driven cost efficiency across large‑scale production environments.

Cloud Native StorageFinOpsKubernetes
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Introducing LiteIO: Open‑Source High‑Performance Cloud‑Native Block Device Service
Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Apr 7, 2019 · Fundamentals

Understanding NVMe/TCP and Its Role in Modern Data Center Storage

The article explains the evolution of NVMe‑oF, compares RDMA, FC and TCP transports, highlights the advantages and challenges of NVMe/TCP in modern data‑center and cloud storage, and discusses Lightbits' LightOS and accelerator card as a cost‑effective solution for high‑performance distributed storage.

Data centerLightbitsNVMe
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Understanding NVMe/TCP and Its Role in Modern Data Center Storage