AMPD Ventures Inc. announce that it has been selected as the first company to sign a CSP (Cloud Service Provider) agreement with Lightbits Labs Inc. AMPD and Lightbits, in conjunction with Intel® Corporation and utilizing Intel® OptaneTM technology, are in the process of developing a new high-performance storage system specifically targeting the needs of the rapidly evolving media and entertainment sector. The system is being designed to be one of the fastest storage systems ever built to run digital media production specific workloads, including animation and visual effects rendering, as well as data capture and storage for the high speed cameras associated with volumetric capture and real-time virtual production. Founded in 2016, the Lightbits team were key contributors to the development of the new NVMe (Non- Volatile Memory Express) protocol and an originator of NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oFTM) standards. Lightbits is a key player in helping drive the transition from inefficient Direct-Attached SSD architecture to low-latency shared NVMe flash architecture. As businesses contend with the perpetual growth of data, they need to rethink how data is captured, preserved, accessed, and transformed. Performance, economics, and endurance of data at scale is paramount. NVMe is having a great impact on businesses and what they can do with data.