Lucidity Launches Lumen: Revolutionary Disk Tiering Technology Eliminates Cloud Storage Downtime

Lucidity unveils Lumen at FinOps X 2025, enabling zero-downtime disk tier conversions and data-driven storage optimization across multi-cloud environments.

At the 62nd IT Press Tour, Lucidity made headlines by announcing Lumen, its groundbreaking disk tiering management solution, which promises to eliminate one of cloud computing's most persistent operational challenges: downtime during storage tier conversions. This announcement, embargoed until June 3rd at FinOps X 2025, represents a significant advancement in cloud storage management technology.

Addressing a $9,000-Per-Minute Problem

The business case for Lumen is stark. According to Lucidity's research, downtime costs organizations an average of $9,000 per minute, while 25% of enterprise spending on disk tiering is wasted due to inefficient tier selection. Perhaps most telling, 50% of enterprise disks are currently running on the wrong tier—a problem that has persisted because changing tiers traditionally requires taking virtual machines offline.

"Most organizations end up choosing the most premium tier and, without clear visibility into real-world usage, never convert to a more optimal tier," explained Nitin Bhadauria, Lucidity's Co-Founder. This conservative approach leads to massive waste across enterprise environments that can span thousands of disks and hundreds of applications.

The Technical Breakthrough: Zero-Downtime Tier Conversion

Lumen's core innovation lies in its ability to perform seamless disk tier conversions without requiring VM reboots or application downtime. This capability addresses a fundamental limitation that has prevented organizations from optimizing their storage tiers post-deployment.

The solution provides three key capabilities that work in concert:

Unified Visibility: Lumen aggregates disk metrics scattered across different cloud provider portals into a single dashboard, providing real-time visibility into tiering efficiency, usage patterns, IOPS, throughput, and latency across multi-cloud environments.

Data-Driven Recommendations: Leveraging historical usage data spanning 90 days, Lumen's intelligent analysis engine delivers targeted recommendations for tier optimization, supported by multidimensional cost and performance analysis. Users can compare IOPS, throughput, latency, and cost between current and recommended tiers.

One-Click Actions: Most significantly, Lumen enables both up-tiering and down-tiering operations through a single click, with all changes happening asynchronously without impacting VM uptime.

Expanding the AutoScaler Success Story

Lumen builds on Lucidity's established success with AutoScaler, their industry-first multi-cloud storage management platform. AutoScaler has already demonstrated impressive results across Fortune 500 deployments:

• A leading US airline automated 7,500 provisioning activities, saving $88,000 monthly with 77% ROI

• A Big 4 accounting firm automated 51,000 provisioning tasks, achieving $470,000 in savings with 60% cost reduction

• A major IT management company realized $1.5 million in savings while managing over 1 petabyte of data

These successes have established Lucidity as the pioneer in cloud storage automation, with AutoScaler delivering 50-70% storage cost reductions by maintaining 75-80% disk utilization compared to the industry average of 30%.

Market Timing and Industry Impact

The Lumen announcement comes at a critical juncture for enterprise cloud adoption. As Vatsal Rastogi, Lucidity's Co-Founder, noted during the presentation, "The volume of data is skyrocketing, and it's moving to the cloud faster than ever." The cloud storage market is projected to grow from $134.5 billion in 2024 to $1.1 trillion by 2035, making efficient storage management increasingly critical.

The complexity of modern cloud storage environments compounds this challenge. Organizations typically face over 1,000 possible manual decisions spanning disk sizing, tiering, IOPS configuration, backup strategies, and compliance requirements across multiple cloud providers.

Technical Architecture and Implementation

Lumen operates as an extension of Lucidity's proven agent-based architecture. The system deploys lightweight agents on virtual machines that continuously monitor storage metrics and communicate with Lucidity's central AutoScaler service. This architecture enables:

• Multi-cloud support across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform

• Application-agnostic operation without requiring code changes

• Non-disruptive deployment to existing infrastructure

• Enterprise-scale management of petabytes of data across hundreds of accounts

Strategic Business Implications

For Lucidity's channel partners, Lumen represents significant new revenue opportunities. As Raj Dutt, VP of Marketing, explained, the solution helps partners become "stickier" with customers by expanding Lucidity's coverage to solve multiple storage management challenges. Partners can bundle Lumen with AutoScaler to increase average contract values while providing expansion and upsell opportunities for existing customers.

The pricing model follows Lucidity's established consumption-based approach, charging $60 per terabyte per month for data managed, ensuring customers pay only for active storage rather than provisioned capacity.

Industry Recognition and Validation

Lucidity's innovation has attracted significant industry backing, including $31 million in funding from major investors. The company has established partnerships with all three major cloud providers and maintains a 100% channel-first go-to-market strategy through partnerships with leading technology resellers.

Customer testimonials highlight the transformational impact of Lucidity's technology. Aaron Stayton, Manager of Cloud and Infrastructure Engineering at Dometic, noted: "Working with Lucidity has helped us move faster and smarter. Their team gets the challenges we're trying to solve, and they bring ideas to the table that make a real difference."

Looking Forward

The Lumen announcement positions Lucidity to address the full spectrum of cloud storage management challenges. While AutoScaler solved the critical problem of capacity optimization, Lumen tackles the equally important challenge of performance optimization through intelligent tiering.

Initially launching for Azure, with support for AWS and Google Cloud Platform to follow in future releases, Lumen represents Lucidity's evolution from a point solution provider to a comprehensive cloud storage management platform. This expansion reflects the company's broader mission to transform cloud storage from a reactive operational burden into a strategic advantage for enterprise technology organizations.

For organizations struggling with the complexity and cost of cloud storage management, Lumen offers a path to optimization without the traditional operational risks that have prevented many from acting on obvious inefficiencies in their storage infrastructure.