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New plumbing, less drama
Lightbits Labs says it’s hit an early interoperability milestone with Microsoft’s new Windows Server NVMe-over-Fabrics Initiator Preview. Translation: the two systems can now play nicely together, which is basically the tech equivalent of getting your smart speaker, laptop, and printer to stop acting like strangers at a family reunion.
Why you should care
This matters because the setup aims to deliver high-performance, native NVMe over TCP block storage to Windows Server Insider hosts over standard Ethernet. For Microsoft, that helps keep Windows Server in the conversation for modern AI and cloud infrastructure builds, where speed and low-friction storage plumbing can matter a lot.
Small milestone, bigger ecosystem vibes
The news doesn’t scream massive revenue catalyst by itself. But it does hint that Microsoft’s server stack keeps evolving toward the kind of infrastructure customers want for AI workloads and high-throughput data handling. And in enterprise land, being the platform that fits into more of the hardware/software puzzle is how you stay sticky.
Big picture: this is more “quiet infrastructure grease” than fireworks, but that kind of behind-the-scenes compatibility can still help Microsoft keep its cloud and server ecosystem looking annoyingly hard to dislodge.