#the trailblazer: nvm

[electric-plants]

the trailblazer: *literally just minding their own business*

gepard and serval about to add them to a group chat:

[opikiquu]

penacony am i right

[aromanticasterisms]

i started this side quest off going girl i cannot POSSIBLY be this stupid. then saw my friends and went oh okay all of this was worth it actually :]

[shadowcatzone]

"technically if at any point you decided (hypothetically) to jump off the ground of the luofu and into the unknown foggy stretch beneath it would you land on solid ground or in the water of the scalegorge? Answer preferrably within a few seconds aka ASAP" -Trailblazer in the groupchat, probably

"I'm confused, did you or did you not jump?" -march

"HYPOTHETICALLY" -Trailblazer

"If you have enough time to type 'hypothetically', you probably didn't jump." -Welt

"What if you just fall through the luofu?" -himeko

"That's unlikely" -welt

"Nvm dan heng caught up to me" -TB

"... they dropped their phone when i caught them." -dan heng

_____

Alternatively: "from that height, it won't matter" -dan heng

[definitelynotafurinasimp]

AND hanya canonically finds the trailblazer hot :P

Where? I need to know! TELL ME WHERE! /hj

Also, didnt Xiyue mention she writes books somewhere or did I hallucinate that sometime?

Gotta check it sometime.

Edit: nvm, she says it herself...

Anyway, where were we? Oh yeah!

Hanya supremacy!

[honorary-fool]

📖,💭, and ❤️ for the selfship ask game!!!! :3c

This ended up being long so putting most of it under "keep reading" (especially 'cus I'm using my 2 more recent s/i's for these so there's a Lot)

📖

"what is your s/i's backstory? how does it make them meet your f/o(s)?"

I don't have a lot of Carmen's figured out (after so long, no less /lh), but from what I do have written down definitively..

an elf, in the same way Klee is

they're a bard- or at least trying to be one, social anxiety & lack of ideas for original stuff be damned

minor religious trauma in the sense that their estranged grandmother tried to force it on them in their youth and they have negative associations w/ it (nothing against Lord Barbatos but they do get a bit tense when it comes to things with the Cathedral and the nuns and all that)

I think in terms of first meeting Venti, they'd seen him in Windrise and I think asked him about something with their lyre, still trying to get used to the instrument. Then the rest of the polycule... off of memory, they tried to ask Venti out but 'oh shit he's already taken nvm, that's chill,' eventually them/Venti/Xiao polycule happens, then they end up dating Xiao as well, at some point Lynette gets thrown in and I'm on the fence about adding Lyney or not.

Definitely gotta work on things for her once Genshin sucks me back in. More lore, alter the polycule, etc etc

Clover's turn!! My beloved Foxian I love her (race in star rail that's like fox-people).

Also not a lot fleshed out, but I have a lil tidbit about her lineage. Both of her parents supposedly were human, though they thought they just had a really fucked up bloodline cus they had oddly longer lifespans. Thought nothing of it, Clover and their twin (HSR AU Carmen basically bc I couldn't part with them) are born, cue the panic 'cus 'why the fuck does one have ears and a tail???'. Nope, turns out one of their ancestors married & had kids w/ a Foxian and overtime the genes just got weeded out/became recessive (idk if that’s how it actually works but erm... it works /lh).

Also things about a shitty ex of theirs but um.. that may or may not need TWs for some aspects so I will hold off on that for now ^^"

Not sure how she would've ended up on the Astral Express yet but she's around mostly for maintenance on the train itself! Still not used to the whole trailblazing thing yet so a lotta the time they stay back with Pom Pom and whoever else doesn't end up going.

They'd be there like post-Penacony arc, so their first introduction to Boothill is seeing him in the Express itself. "Why the fuck is there a wanted criminal on the Express guys are you nuts???" -> over time they get used to his presence and antics, at some point attempting maintenance on him (which I'd guess is similar in some ways but differs in a lot of ways, working on a train vs a cyborg), "shit he's kinda hot" -> clovehill canon??? /j

Then Argenti... similarly, post-Penacony, seeing him on the Express. Freaks out at first 'cus "what the fuck how many new people are there in this fucking train??" I got bored and made a fake text message thing between them and the Trailblazer over it (postimage link)- probably gonna remake it though since this was made prior to finding out he could, in fact, be added to the guest book in HSR, which means like 2 random characters can visit the Astral Express itself and you can talk to 'em briefly and stuff.

💭

"are you more of a 'has everything written down' self shipper or a 'what happens in my daydreams STAYS in my daydreams' self shipper?

The first one, I think. I don't write a lot of like in-depth things down, but I do write down little snippets. I used to write more, I think, when it came to Carmen and their boyfriends... only one so far w/ Clover.

❤️

"any favourite reoccurring scenario?"

With Carmen, I think it was them tending to their partners' wounds (as someone who would've been a healer-type character and whose creator is a Sucker for hurt/comfort stuff). Or like general comfort stuff w/ their partners.

Clover... similar, I think. Considering all the x reader imagines and writings I've reblogged w/ Boothill and the reader being a mechanic... That's a big one for me (especially 'cus those were partially inspiration for them as a whole). Lotsa banter back and forth. Not a lot w/ Argenti that I can think of off the top of my head..Yeah I think overall a lotta repairs for one partner & attempting to help w/ their other partner's wounds (technically they're on the Preservation path, which has a lot of shielder characters, but shhhh), or like silly shit like cuddling or Clover enabling Boothill's chaotic shenanigans or playing around w/ their old makeup w/ the boys, etc etc.

.. Yeah tending to wounds is a big one in general. Give the pookies some gosh darn comfort!!! /lh

[weaseltotheface]

i’ve got two days to use more than 3000 trailblaze power and i don’t think i can do it lol, i wanna get the nameless honor stuff done before the next period starts so i can get as many of the rewards as i can but i don’t think i can do it, i don’t have enough fuel to give me that amount of stamina in any way lol

you only get 180 a day and each fuel only gives u 60 so i’d need 52 fuels to get it done lmao....nvm

[veridiantree]

Nvm it’s back now. Happy Trailblazing!

Voice of the Galaxy | Update Radio Vol. 6

Version 1.6 "Crown of the Mundane and Divine" will soon be online!

The topic of this episode of the Voice of the Galaxy is... The Update Radio! In this episode, we will introduce some optimizations and new features available in Version 1.6. Let's take a look together!

[lucydacusgirl]

Who were the first people in the world to get gay divorced thats what I wanna know

[bixisarusher]

Bix Reviews: Call Me Kat (Season 1, FOX 2021)

I thought a lot about how I feel about this show, and there are lots of words, so it’s gonna go under the cut.

In summary: I didn’t enjoy it quite as much as I hoped to, and i discuss why I think that was. BUT there are great things in this remake, and I want to name them as well!

There are two ways to look at Call Me Kat: As it’s own thing, and as a Miranda remake. As a Miranda Hart stan, I’ll have a lot more to say about the latter, so let’s start with the show itself.

On It’s Own

That felt appropriate, nvm me

It’s a cute show. It’s not a groundbreaking concept, and it’s not re-inventing the genre, but it has some really good things going for it:

Kat is happy and confident in her quirks, but doesn’t have it all together - so she has room to grow and is very sympathetic, all the while encouraging the viewer to celebrate their own quirks. Lovely! Also Mayim is a treasure and it’s great to watch her perform.

The show openly discusses “taboo” topics, like using anti-depressants and their side-effects, freezing your eggs, comparing yourself to a hallucinated version of your crush’s ex...  The show isn’t a trailblazer, (partly because there have been many great shows in the last couple years) but I thinks it’s awesome to see them further treading out the ground and normalizing these topics.

It has a nice set of characters that go through their indepent stories, I found myself excited for any new episode and enjoying the varying storylines. (Most of them Randi.)

And, although the last episode dragged it right back into the romantic territory, Kat has a genuine friendship with Max and I value that a lot. Neither of them harbours secret feelings, instead they are open and honest about it. The only thing they overdid here was to have an exchange of “Do you remember, when we were in college together and [blank] happened?” in at least every other episode.

Another thing on the down side: Neither the writers nor Mayim seem to fully know what to do with the fourth wall breaks. I don’t mind the thing, it just doesn’t feel fully rounded out - like how much they want to use it, what purpose it really has, ...

I think it’s due to the circumstances of the filming (pandemic restrictions and all), but more on that later. So much for the show itself.

As a remake

First of all: Do I love Jim Parsons for looking at this absurd british gem of a TV show and deciding “the world needs more stuff like this”? Absolutely! Because I agree! There were two or three moments that leaned on Miranda a little too much for their own good, but overall: it is content inspired by Miranda, but neither correcting, it nor copying it. More power to this concept.

More power to celebrating the silly joys in this live, to celebrate not being normal, more power to amazing friendships and women who find their own path. Call Me Kat does all of these things.

However, it doesn’t quite live up to it’s Mothership. Let me elaborate.

There is a myriad of reasons why Miranda works and I will not attempt to list them. However there’s one thing that does stand out to me in the original, and that I really miss in the adaptation: Miranda didn’t just write “a plot” and salt it with “a few jokes”. She carefully built tensions and different storylines to culminate together. Sometimes it’s a funny word that the character hears in the first act, and later nervously blurts out in the wrong moment. Sometimes it’s a parade of characters she met through the episode that all meet in one spot at the end. Or there is a throw away comment in the beginning of an episode that sets up a revelation toward the end.

I could swarm you with examples, a good one is in 1x03 Job: trying to impress Tilly, trying to deny waitressing, and then: the multiple “You weed in a ball pool?” and Gary in uniform walking in right on time to sell the lie about being an undercover commander. Another one of my personal favorites is in 2x04 A New Low, when Miranda in the end tells Gary that he lost her trust, and he’ll “never get to see her naked sweep” - and then he find’s the portrait Tamara did of Miranda’s “naked sweep”. Just hit’s right.

That is a testament to how well crafted the episodes are. In Call Me Kat? All Nighter and Gym had moments like that, and Double Date very early on set up Kat’s dream to use the sound system, but it just never reached that same level of mastermind.

But, in defense of CMK: Miranda was crafted over ten years with a full of 20 episodes airing (21 if you count the radio series) and the cast worked together a good year before they filmed the first series of 6 episodes. Compared to that, work on Call me Kat started around 2018, the cast was assembled in the first half of 2020 and started shooting in late October. They then shot 13 episodes in their first season. (which is more than half of the total episodes of Miranda, just saying) Sources: english wikipedia articles for Miranda and Call Me Kat, as well as Mayim’s Youtube. (Jep I did research for this.)

Also the CMK episodes were written and directed by a variety of people, while the Miranda episodes have all been at least co-written by Miranda Hart and all except for the last two were directed by Juliet May.

These are - as much as I as a humble consumer with a bit of wikipedia knowledge know - basic differences about how shows are made in the UK vs. in the US, and neither formula is any way of guarantee for the quality of the final product. However I think somewhere in those facts is the reason why the Miranda ship feels a lot more in shape and ... coherent. The pilot that we know and love is the fourth time they recorded the script, and I don’t even want to know how many times the script had been edited in between. The cast knew each other well, the material had been tested in front of multiple audiences. Call Me Kat had neither of these luxuries. On the contrary, CMK has been put together under restrictions due to the pandemic.

So on the one hand, I am majorly grateful that this show even got to see the light of day! That means that a full cast and crew had jobs in these trying times, and it means that we were provided with good entertainement.

On the other hand, the circumstances are showing in the final product. The cast had an awkward chemistry with each other, and the comedic timing, though not horrible, could have been a lot better.

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I think studio audiences can be a blessing. There is something about the actors having a genuine connection to real time observers that helps me as a screen audience connect to it. And for this staged multicam show that includes glances at the camera? I think a real audience would have grounded the concept. And it would have given the team a direct feedback as to which moments were working comedically and which weren’t.

What I’m trying to say is: they had big shoes to fill, and the odds were not really in their favor, and so it doesn’t really hold up in comparison.

That’s sad. But that doesn’t mean that it’s a horrible show. As I said in the beginning, I love that this show is done in the spirit of Miranda, even if it’s not just as good.

I have no idea how the show’s chances are to get a second season. If they do get renewed - I’ll keep watching.

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Now, let me finish with a few gifs that I feel like they can be applied to the whole “they remade Miranda and it went both ok and less then ok but at least the word is being spread, right?”-situation.

because Kat/Max is good but could anything ever be Miranda/Gary?

Not really...

ok that one’s a bit rude. but you thought it, too.

Jim turning in bed at night overthinking if Mayim was the right choice. But she was. Much like Stevie was for Miranda.

Honestly a very good part of the remake is Mayim and Cheyenne performing together! I personally think this moment above is responsible.

Trying to match the CMK characters to the Miranda characters like: I thought Phil is supposed to be the Customer but turns out Phil originally was supposed to a Phillys? So Phil is Stevie, but then who is Randi? Tilly? So many questions.

And with that, dear Caller, back to you.

[cleaduvalls]

i watched all 20 episodes of spy kids: mission critical in about a week and here are my thoughts (3/5)

1.9

i havent watched this in like 2 days i dont even remember what happened last time

why is everything in the desert the desert sucks

alsjhiajgdf i love tom kenny

listen i know hes like a superandroid or whatever but i really hope he and therese fall in love

wait hold up. i thought they already had midterms???? like the did that before scorpion went to her fashion shoot. AND they were kupkakkes midterms. whats up with this school

no drinking in class???? rude. let them hydrate

that seems imbalanced

aHh

thats only like 10

also that book is dummy thicc

its ok ace my nose whistles too

shut up carmen youre just jealous because shes pretty

there are no seasons its a desert

ok dude stop breathing so hard

he JUST said that

anywhere between an hour and umm... 11 months

you put it on one page why are all the pages back

me but with physics

thats literally the best line in the whole series

juni how do you not know that you were at a safe H O U S E

theyve been gone for like 2 hours are they not allowed to study?????

what even is AWOL???

absent without leave. neat

talon gives off some big draco energy

tick tock???? how dare you

slkdhfa she called sir awesome honey shes such a mom

dont make it obvious

oh look they made it obvious

roll credits

i was in cleveland when i watched this episode - well actually i left that day - and i was s h o o k e t h

also hes right. no spy would be in cleveland. theres 3 buildings

oh me too

right bc shes the only “I.A.”

ew

eW

this isnt HARRY POTTER. or maybe it is. talon is a hardcore draco

oh right bc swearing is for Men™

update tumblr decided to break AGAIN (im boutta cry btw) so we lost about 5 minutes from the end of 1.9 and 7 from the beginning of 1.10

1.10

its a DOORBELL do they not have those in the outback steakhouse

lots of people. doofenshmirtz, other people who i cant think of right now, etc

???? no it wont????

did your troop leader not give you The Talk??? you NEVER go in the customers house

ace no. youre allowed to not buy treats

theres a triforce on her vest, too

shes just gonna go to another house yall. shell be f i n e

oh my God shes holding hands with mauly im gonna c r y

yeah its called saliva

nope only scorpion lives in a castle

stop bringing up spy sense and tell him you saw her glare at you

HES ALLOWED TO LIKE FOOD

how do you know that he doesnt have his phone if YOU dont know where it is and HE cant tell you

i love how she says "floor. ceiling. more thumb"

haha i found the birth of venus

oh and the creation of adam

hes like squidward, which would make sense bc goldies voiced by tom kenny who voices spongebob

"sebastian oliver" "shadow operative" S.O. nice

why do you have a trailblazers badge. youre 4. i didnt get one til i was a cadette

also sebastian???? isnt that the toymakers first name????? you cant have 2 sebastians

also why do you have braces. youre still 4

"SIR MEANIE FACE" IF SOMEONE SAID THAT TO ME ID BE D E V A S T A T E D

SCORPION LET HER CRY SHES F O U R

so really, spy sense DID help

oooooh, sentry duty, thats gotta hurt

WHAT THE H E C K YOURE F O U R

she looks like frickin plushtrap

aCE NO YOURW GONNA D I E

oh trust me they hurt me more than you know

dude theyre so thin youre f i n e

eh, still worked

clicking her teeth together so hard must H U R T

i think she can get out of there. also shes concussed now

why was that so quiet. why did it get louder

thats not a y shape

no, they spy kids

oh shiitake mushrooms thats what THEY said

whenever they say pinnoquinoxx i always think of pinnochio

ahdhhsjak i miss pizza parties 😔

well now we ALL expect it

also, no one????? pick a cooler code name. your regular name was cool and now youve ruined it

2.1

oh theres finally a skip intro option. im not taking it

stop saying that its weird

EWWWWWW CRUSTY THATS SO G R O S S

haha shes shopping w the goon. love that

oh yeah i didnt get to tell yall yet but i absolutely h a t e gablet

a lot of people, juni

listen i know a jt (but he doesnt go by jt) and uhhhhhhh were not gonna go there

why are you happy. what about second semester makes you so happy

boi thats a tardis

the design on his hoverboard looks like the aperture science logo

i paused to read the Floops label and it says "fried corn and sugar loop shaped breakfast substitute, net wt. 13 oz" ITS NOT EVEN A CEREAL ITS A BREAKFAST SUBSTITUTE IM C R Y I N G

listen i know hes technically scorpions dad but i dont think he can legally be in the dorm rooms

aww, thats sweet

i dont think gablet has an attached printer

gablet always sounds like shes mocking people

oh dear God its dolores umbridge

haha nerd

awesome no im gonna die

whenever carmen yells she sounds like link

ok so i didnt find a reason why she sounds like link but i DID find that theyre making a wherea waldo tv series so uhhhh thats fun

why does the cat have a bandaid

GABLET S T O P

OH!!!!!! ON THE WALL!!!!!!! ITS THE TUMBLR POST WITH THE FORK AND KNIFE ETIQUETTE PICTURE!!!!! YOU KNOW THE ONE!!!!!

oh no fart jokes

its even the basic fart sound effect

BAHAHAH MY PHONE VIBRATED AT THE SAME TIME HE FARTED THAT WAS WEIRD

oh no i hate him

stop SLURPING

uh yeah???? you heard them yelling about it

how??? does that work??? you cant just like catch electricity in a cup.... can you???? i havent studied it since 4th grade

oh worm??

goldies such a boomer

worm??

psi shouldnt be at the drawing board right now. he also shouldnt be confused

what happened to the lasers

wait nvm we havent gotten to that episode yet

ace is valid, dark is Scary

im gonna punch gablet in the face

that doesnt sound realistic

do you not have stairs??????

dont you mean inside AND out??

that flashlight did NOTHING

how did it die so fast?????

who else would you be talking to??

isnt that bowser from the mario movie we dont speak of??

i havent gotten a chance to tell yall but i absolutely love clemp. hes such a mood

hes the greatest spy

does it use a mini transmooker???? ig it doesnt bc gablet works but thatd be lit

SEE SHES IMMORTAL

me when i see something interesting

ME WHEN IM NOT ON MY PHONE

i dont think you can legally say that

you killed her

me

wow nice promo

also just???? bring a charger????? like youre the tech girl why do you not have one at all times

how?????? did you go so fast

machete electric bubbles??? nice

just task manager him

mother of all boards sounds like it could be a cuss...mother of all fuckers

also throwback to 1.7 when she says "his ai firewalled his motherboard" i keep expecting her to say "his ai firewalled this motherfucker"

yes i said keep ive watched that episode too many times to count

worm??

why did you giggle and make a flirty pose. are yall supposed to get together???

did you????? kill him????????? holy shit

2.2

thats what my dad does. he loves hospital corners

idc what it is you have a bazooka

ok if it was a spider id get it, australia has some deadly ones, but does it have deadly ants too???? like is that a Thing????

also ants in your room are gross

was that just a cameo??? i dont remember what happens in this one

haha because he said grapevines and wine has dregs and wine is made of grapes

for the boys??? thats so cute

listen idc how evil you are EVERYONE should cry over otters

so one of the parents has a sister or sister in law named roxanna..... hmmm.......

if you dont use your turn signal h*ck u

hes gonna D I E

i just looked at my shoe and i think theres blood on it???? what the h*ck

suspicious??? about.... what???? having fears???? not being perfect?????

juni that was awful wording

JUNI WHAT DID YOU D O TO HIM

like i know what he DID but the way it plays out makes it seem like something significant

i thought his name was heavy meddle not.... deth metal???? thats how the subtitles spell it

hahah me

he sounds like bling bling boy

yeah ik im a fool thanks for reminding me

what are you gonna do??? kill juni????

POOR WORD CHOICE JUNI

oh he gives exactly 0 h*cks

a shoe doesnt make that sound

crack bugs?????

see thats why you dont mess with things

im a god among boys??????? what????

did you... kill them????????????

thats any australian person

theyre so stupid i love them

good i hate her

i thought the gunk just like... disappeared from the guitar but actually it shot off

he died... 😔

uhh.... yeah????? was it not obvious?????

me when i have 5 dollars

[bakudanma]

Nvm I don't give a shit about those two /j

March 7th supremacy

[ID: text reading {Y'all aren't even a good duo." Literally us:} underneath is official art of the characters Trailblazer and March 7th, Trailblazer has an expressionless face while March has an enthusiastic one. /End ID]

Come on hyoverse I want to know more about that cowboy and that guy who looks like riikami

[ID: the loading screen for the game Honkai Star Rail, the screen is a train flying through the sky past a planet. /End ID]

[mikemortgage]

Lightbits Labs Revolutionizes Cloud Infrastructure with First Production NVMe/TCP Solution; Provides Hyperscale Storage Experience to Private Clouds

With $50 million in funding, Lightbits is galvanizing the NVMe revolution, providing private clouds and data centers the performance of local SSDs over standard networks with the hyperscalability of public clouds

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Lightbits Labs, the company that championed the NVMe™/TCP standard, today launched its solution for bringing hyperscale agility and simplicity to data center storage. Lightbits’ software-defined disaggregation solution helps enterprise private clouds, Software as a Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers save unprecedented amounts of time and money while enabling higher application performance and public cloud grade hyperscalability. Lightbits Labs was first to recognize the opportunity created by combining newly-available affordable Flash solutions with high-performance standard networks. Its LightOS® software and LightField™ storage acceleration card are the first NVMe/TCP solutions to provide a Global Flash Translation Layer (GFTL) running over high-performance standard networks.

“Data center storage underutilization has reached epidemic and expensive levels,” said Eran Kirzner, Lightbits Labs CEO and Co-Founder. “By unlocking the full value of NVMe, we’ve changed the playing field for private clouds. Our customers – private cloud and SaaS providers – can now capitalize on the best of both worlds: the application performance of using local NVMe SSD with the simplicity and efficiency of hyperscale.”

In the data center, converged infrastructure deployments with direct-attached solid state drives (SSDs) have constrained ratios of storage to compute, leading to underutilized resources. The result is lost capital and operating expenditures, including power consumption, real estate and more. Reducing or eliminating stranded resources represents significant cost savings.

LightOS software and the LightField storage acceleration card provide a high-performance, end-to-end disaggregation solution that can scale without requiring any changes to clients or network infrastructure. The result is that cloud infrastructures can now achieve optimal scale at the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO). With LightOS and LightField, application owners can fully utilize truly composable storage that is indistinguishable from low-latency Direct-Attached Storage (DAS) SSDs. By transitioning from fast, but inefficient, DAS SSDs to disaggregated NVMe storage, users will enjoy a fast cloud infrastructure with dramatically higher storage utilization at scale.

By harnessing multiple NVMe SSDs in one large pool, the LightOS GFTL significantly boosts performance and delivers rich data services while enhancing the endurance of commodity SSDs. LightOS and LightField optimize application performance by supporting millions of IOPS at latencies that are similar to DAS SSDs.

Lightbits Labs enters the market with approximately $50 million in funding, with investments from marquee strategic investors including DellEMC, Cisco and Micron.

Analyst: NVMe over TCP Opens New Opportunities for NVMe Storage

“NVMe over Fabric allows customers to share high performance NVMe-based storage across servers, but the implementations available to date have required custom hardware and/or software on the server-side that can make these configurations complex to scale and manage,” said Eric Burgener, research vice president, Infrastructure Systems, Platforms and Technologies Group at IDC. “A new option, based on the NVMe over Fabric standard and the TCP transport, uses the standard Ethernet adapters and drivers that ship with all industry-standard servers and requires no custom content in attached servers, making it not only much easier but much less expensive to share high performance NVMe storage. Vendors like Lightbits Labs that make these solutions available are opening up the opportunity for NVMe storage to be much more widely shared in enterprise environments, and IDC expects NVMe over Fabric deployments to begin to ramp based on the availability of TCP transport options.”

LightOS

Lightbits LightOS is a software-defined storage solution that provides the following attributes:

Easily integrates into existing data center infrastructure, without touching the network or clients

High performance and low latency storage with linear scalability

Shared pool of NVMe storage accessible via standard networking infrastructure

Runs on off-the-shelf servers (Intel, AMD, or ARM based) with standard NVMe SSDs

Designed for operational efficiency and ease of use

Particularly suitable for container-based environments

Provides advanced data services such as line-rate erasure-coding to protect against SSD failures, data reduction through compression, thin provisioning, multiple quality of service levels, and more.

Enhances endurance of the SSDs while delivering more consistent latencies than direct-attached SSDs.

LightField

LightField is a PCIe storage acceleration card that speeds LightOS’s NVMe/TCP target and GFTL. It is available for those customers who desire the highest performance at the lowest TCO.

LightField’s features include the following:

Seamless integration with the LightOS software stack

200Gb/s line rate compression/decompression and erasure-coding

Hardware DMA acceleration engines for peer-to-peer data shuffling between SSDs, offloading SSD garbage collection management and data movement from the storage server’s CPU cores

Hardware scatter/gather engines for zero-copy network-to-storage data transfers that accelerate NVMe/TCP

Data parity engine for offloading data protection services

Future proofing through re-programmable and extendable user-defined in-storage processing functions

Customer Quotes

Zachary Smith, Co-Founder and CEO at IaaS provider Packet:

“With Lightbits technology, we can provide network attached NVMe devices with ‘as good or better’ performance characteristics as local NVMe.”

“Doing this over our existing Ethernet-based network with standard 10/25G network cards is a game changer versus other solutions in the market.”

Fortune 500 SaaS cloud service provider:

“On standard server-hardware, Lightbits out-performs the most expensive flash-array solutions we have in our infrastructure at a fraction of the cost while providing a delivery mechanism that provides universal access to our entire server-fleet with no compromises.”

“Universal access to NVMe flash in our data centers is a key goal for 2019 and Lightbits is one of the leading solutions to getting us there.”

Partner Quote

“We are constantly on the lookout for innovations that could extend the value of the VMware™ Cloud Foundation to industries and customers more broadly,” said Christos Karamanolis, VMware* Fellow and Storage CTO. “Lightbits is a VMware partner that delivers storage-compute disaggregation using NVMe over TCP/IP networks and a global FTL software layer that optimizes for performance and endurance. The technology holds great promise for customers looking to extend hyperconverged infrastructure to environments that are served by traditional storage products today.”

Available Now

LightOS and LightField have been successfully tested in industry-leading cloud data centers. LightOS can be purchased separately as a software-only solution or purchased as a bundle with the LightField hardware accelerator.

About the NVMe/TCP Standard

Lightbits Labs, Facebook, Intel, Cisco, DellEMC, Micron and others collaborated on the NVMe/TCP standard, which was ratified by NVM Express® as an approved transport layer for non-volatile memory express (NVMe) in November, 2018. As the storage industry’s pioneer in NVMe/TCP, Lightbits helped drive the standardization effort and worked closely with NVM Express and its member companies, including taking a leadership role in the initial development of the standard specifications. Designed to layer over existing software-based TCP transport implementations as well as future hardware accelerated implementations, NVMe/TCP lets large-scale data centers utilize their existing, ubiquitous TCP/IP infrastructure to realize NVMe’s performance benefits.

Additional Resources:

Video: Meet Lightbits: Separation without Drama

Video: Lightbits Demo at Flash Memory Summit 2018

Article: Welcome NVMe™/TCP to the NVMe-oF™ Family of Transports

Webinar: NVMe™/TCP: What You Need to Know About the Specification

Webinar: What NVMe™/TCP Means for Networked Storage

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About Lightbits Labs™

Lightbits Labs, founded in 2016, is remaking modern cloud infrastructure on a global scale. The company’s mission is to reinvent the way storage and networking are conducted in cloud data centers. As trailblazers in this field, its solutions are successfully being used in industry-leading cloud data centers around the globe. With strategic investors including DellEMC, Cisco, and Micron, and with investments from Chairman and Founder Avigdor Willenz, Lightbits Labs is disaggregating storage and compute to improve performance and TCO.

Learn more at www.lightbitslabs.com or contact us at info@lightbitslabs.com.

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