Backblaze Inc. has launched the Backblaze B2 MCP Server, an open source server that connects AI agents to B2 Cloud Storage via the Model Context Protocol, enabling agents to perform storage operations…
At NVIDIA's GTC conference, Adobe CTO Ely Greenfield revealed that early AI training runs wasted roughly two-thirds of GPU time waiting for data, costing about $600,000 of every $1 million spent on tr…
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…
At Nvidia's GTC conference, CEO Jensen Huang said about 90% of enterprise data is unstructured and largely unusable by generative AI without better storage systems. Traditional storage architectures, …
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…