Backblaze and WEKA have validated a two-tier AI storage pipeline pairing WEKA NeuralMesh as the performance tier and Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage as the capacity tier, with NeuralMesh's Snap-to-Object s…
WEKA and Backblaze have struck a deal to combine WEKA NeuralMesh with Backblaze B2 cloud object storage, tiering performance-sensitive AI data on NeuralMesh and large datasets and retained AI assets i…
Backblaze announced the results of its Generative AI Media Hackathon, held from June 22 to August 3, 2026, with 1,314 participants competing for a share of a $10,000 prize pool. The winning project, f…
Backblaze has published daily health readings of every hard drive in its data centers since April 2013, and the open dataset has been cited in more than 227 papers and articles since 2018, powering re…
9to5Mac's daily podcast for August 4, 2026, recaps the latest Apple vs OpenAI drama, highlighting ongoing tensions between the two tech giants over AI integration. The episode is available on iTunes, …
VDURA has partnered with Wasabi to offer its customers low-cost cloud storage for aging AI data, avoiding egress and API charges associated with Amazon cloud storage. The alliance targets AI factories…
Backblaze reported Q2 2026 revenue of $47.2 million, up 18% year-over-year, beating its high-end guidance of $40.2 million, and narrowed its GAAP net loss to -$5.1 million from -$7.1 million a year ag…
Airbyte introduced a new workspaces feature in its Airbyte Agents Platform, providing finite controls for organizing users, data connectors, and AI agents, and expanded HubSpot write capabilities for …
Gartner predicts that through 2026, organizations will abandon 60% of AI projects unsupported by AI-ready data, highlighting the importance of data ingest and storage in AI pipelines. Backblaze's in-h…
Backblaze's Q2 2026 Network Stats report reveals that CDN traffic increased 66% year-over-year, while hosting traffic remained stable, and neocloud and hyperscaler traffic showed high variance. The re…
Backblaze, CoreWeave, Panmnesia, Meta, Cloudera, and Vast announced new AI storage and memory solutions to optimize data placement in AI workflows, according to a Forbes report by Thomas Coughlin. The…
Backblaze is offering a 20% discount on its backup service with the code 9to5daily, emphasizing the importance of reliable data security amid rising cyber threats. The 9to5Mac Daily podcast highlights…
Backblaze announced a $335 million, multi-exabyte storage agreement with CoreWeave covering five- and seven-year terms, providing HDD-based tiered storage for CoreWeave AI Object Storage. The deal inc…
Cloud storage provider Backblaze secured a 5-year, multi-exabyte storage deal with AI cloud provider CoreWeave worth $335 million. Backblaze will provide HDD-based storage tiers for CoreWeave AI Objec…