AI training needs flash, but the rest of the AI lifecycle does not. See how tiered storage helps neoclouds lower costs, keep data close to GPUs, avoid hyperscaler lock-in, and retain more of the customer relationship across every workload stage.
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Object lock can create false confidence when bucket settings, backup software, retention periods, and lifecycle rules are misaligned. Learn the most common immutable backup mistakes—and how to configure ransomware-resistant storage correctly without unexpected access, capacity, or operational transaction-cost surprises.
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For lean IT teams, zero-touch Mac backup deployment is no longer optional. Learn what truly silent installation requires and how Backblaze helps admins protect every device across Jamf, Kandji, Addigy, and other MDM-managed fleets without user interaction or follow-up work.
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Backblaze B2 now integrates with Suite Studios S3 Native File Streaming, giving teams high-performance, drive-like access to cloud data. Work directly with standard S3-compatible objects across media, scientific, geospatial, and engineering workflows without duplicating datasets or creating new storage silos.
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The Backblaze B2 MCP Server gives AI agents a safe, standard way to operate cloud object storage. Connect MCP-compatible clients to scoped B2 application keys, manage files and buckets, move large objects directly, and control destructive actions with configurable safeguards.
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TAMS organizes live media by time, giving distributed production teams faster access to shared footage. See how Backblaze B2, LiveWyer, CuttingRoom, and Drastic Technologies create an interoperable, cloud-native workflow for ingest, editing, playback, distribution, and archive with economics at scale.
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Code42 support ends in 2026, but CrashPlan isn’t the automatic successor it appears to be. Before migrating, understand the companies’ split, CrashPlan’s ownership, potential storage limits, evolving positioning, and the questions IT teams should ask when evaluating better backup alternatives.
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Starting September 14, Backblaze B2 will automatically encrypt every new upload and destination copy at rest with AES-256. Always-on SSE-B2 strengthens security without application changes, added costs, or performance impact, while preserving SSE-C for customer-managed encryption keys when required instead.
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Adobe’s experience reveals why GPUs sit idle during AI model training: slow storage, insufficient throughput, and uneven workloads. Learn how storage bottlenecks and uneven data loading leave expensive GPUs idle—and how always-hot, high-throughput object storage keeps AI training pipelines running efficiently at scale while reducing wasted compute costs.
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Simplify Mac backup deployment with Backblaze and Jamf. Flexible user matching reduces manual setup, streamlines onboarding, and helps IT teams protect every device using their existing Jamf workflows.
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See what the strongest projects from the Backblaze Generative AI Media Hackathon had in common. These five generative media apps show how storage and orchestration become part of production-ready design.
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Backblaze Drive Stats has been cited in more than 105 academic papers and AI/ML projects since 2018. Explore the research it powers and download the dataset.
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GenAI can finally unlock the 90% of enterprise data trapped in unstructured formats—but legacy storage wasn't built for continuous indexing, vectorization, and RAG workflows. Learn why always-hot, high-throughput storage is becoming a prerequisite for production AI performance, accuracy, and cost efficiency.
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Backup and cloud storage solve different problems. Learn when to use Backblaze Computer Backup, when B2 Cloud Storage is the better fit, and why many organizations use both to protect endpoints, store growing datasets, and support data throughout its lifecycle.
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Most AI projects don't fail because of the model—they fail because of the data. Learn how to build an AI-ready data pipeline from ingestion onward.
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Read the Q2 2026 Network Stats report to see the latest in cloud storage and neocloud networking trends.
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Cloud storage vendors compete aggressively to sign you up, then make it expensive and complicated to move your data out. Learn why migration friction has become part of the cloud business model, and how Backblaze Universal Data Migration helps remove barriers to exit.
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Read the Q1 2026 Drive Stats Report to see the latest on failure rates of over 340,000 hard drives.
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New frontier AI models can now perform expert-level offensive cybersecurity tasks, shrinking the gap between vulnerability discovery and exploitation while lowering the barrier for attackers. For IT leaders, that means detection alone is no longer enough.
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Read more about how the $335M strategic agreement aligns to strong AI demand and establishes Backblaze as a key storage provider.
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Join the Backblaze Generative Media Hackathon to build innovative generative media applications using Backblaze B2, Genblaze, and GMI Cloud for a chance to win cash prizes.
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Customer records live in the database. Payment activity is safely stored in your payment processor. Call recordings and transcripts live in Zoom, Teams, Webex, or another video conferencing application–or are shared to Gong for customer insights. Telemetry resides in an observability tool like Grafana or DataDog. Your own day-to-day work is in Google Drive or… Continue reading Why AI Projects Stall: Data Silos
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Genblaze is an open-source Python SDK from Backblaze for building generative media pipelines — one API across video, image, and audio providers, with swappable models, durable B2 storage, and SHA-256 provenance manifests on every run.
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AI infrastructure is difficult to observe directly. That’s because AI systems are highly distributed. They span storage platforms, GPU clusters, training pipelines, and multiple cloud providers—and those looking to optimize their stacks have to build out a visibility layer that takes all of those things into account. Data is constantly moving between different tools and… Continue reading What Network Data Can and Can’t Tell Us About AI Infrastructure
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Two-thirds of enterprise leaders see significant potential in integrating AI models with their proprietary data. Yet only 22% feel confident their current IT infrastructure could actually support new AI applications. That gap—between ambition and capability—is where most AI investments stall, budgets balloon, and promising projects quietly get shelved. The problem isn’t the models, the change… Continue reading Your AI Strategy Is Only as Strong as Your Data Foundation
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Explore why best-of-breed infrastructure outperforms monolithic platforms in the AI era. Learn how flexibility, cost control, and composability drive enterprise infrastructure strategy.
The post Best-of-Breed vs. Platform Play: Why Modular Infrastructure Is Winning Again appeared first on Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup
GPU availability is only half the equation for AI cloud performance. As AI workloads scale, upstream object storage must deliver sustained throughput, predictable data movement, and fast rehydration to keep expensive GPU clusters fully utilized.
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Teams that invest in annotation infrastructure early—combining tools like CVAT with scalable storage like Backblaze B2—build data operations that sustain computer vision models through their entire lifecycle and into the era of world models.
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Learn how to build resilient infrastructure that stands up to persistent adversaries who probe your environment through traffic abuse and credential attacks.
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Read the Q1 2026 Network Stats report to see the latest in cloud storage and neocloud networking trends.
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Backblaze B2 Neo wins the NAB Show 2026 Product of the Year Award, recognizing its breakthrough as a high-performance, white-label cloud storage solution for media and AI platforms.
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The rise of AI workloads is changing infrastructure criteria, shifting the focus from storage capacity to sustained throughput capability, portability, and network proximity.
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Learn how changes in cloud sync technology affect your backup coverage and what Backblaze is doing to keep your files protected.
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Backblaze is showcasing ten partners at NAB Show 2026 who are building cost-efficient, deeply integrated media workflow solutions—such as AI-driven content monetization, file streaming, high-speed data transfer, and real-time review—on top of the Backblaze storage platform.
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As autonomous agents scale, cloud storage provides the critical durable layer for managing the full data lifecycle—ingestion, versioning, archival, and retention—of operational artifacts and compliance data beyond the ephemeral NemoClaw runtime.
The post Data Orchestration in the Age of Autonomous Agents: Architectural Patterns Building on NemoClaw & OpenClaw appeared first on Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup
Backblaze recently moved beyond the hybrid model to become a fully remote company, embracing a culture that invests in people and intentional collaboration over a physical office space.
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Read the Q1 2026 Performance Stats report to see transparent, repeatable testing data comparing Backblaze B2, AWS S3, Cloudflare R2, and Wasabi Object Storage performance in US-East and EU-Central regions for developers and teams.
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Backblaze is donating its original Storage Pod, an open-hardware innovation that revolutionized high-density, low-cost cloud storage server design, to the Computer History Museum.
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The new open-source Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Skill for Claude provides a simple and powerful natural language interface for inspecting and managing B2 Cloud Storage using Claude-based agents and the B2 CLI.
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Discover how cloud storage eliminates the split-stack problem and capital rigidity, allowing neoclouds to scale immediately and focus engineering efforts on their core AI and compute platforms.
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Read more about Backblaze pricing and product updates.
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Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage has partnered with StorageReview to host the new 314 trillion-digit pi dataset, totaling over 130TB and structured for large-scale retrieval.
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True cloud resilience requires data portability; learn how open cloud storage, predictable costs, and flexible neocloud ecosystems eliminate vendor lock-in and enable recovery.
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Set up automatic, daily, and pre-compaction backups of your OpenClaw state to Backblaze B2 with the openclaw-b2-backup plugin's minimal three-field configuration.
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Backblaze Computer Backup now includes the Advanced Installer and a new bzcli command-line tool, empowering IT teams to consistently pre-configure and remotely manage backup settings.
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B2 Neo solves the hidden storage problem for neoclouds—keeping GPU clusters fed with high-throughput, performant storage—allowing them to focus on their core compute roadmap.
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