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What Network Data Can and Can't Tell Us About AI Infrastructure
1+ hour, 40+ min ago (916+ words) June 10, 2026 by Stephanie Doyle // No Comments Your organization is ready to prioritize AI-first projects. But is your data ready? Whether you're developing AI-powered products to bring in new revenue or building internal AI tools to increase productivity, your AI initiatives…...
Defense by Design: Building Infrastructure That Assumes Adversaries
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (623+ words) May 7, 2026 by Kari Rivas // No Comments Ransomware and other disruptive attacks rarely succeed because of a single catastrophic failure. More often, they succeed because a system was designed for availability and scale, but not for persistent, adaptive adversaries testing for…...
Distributed by Design: Building a Truly Remote Backblaze
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (561+ words) 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. The post Distributed by Design: Building a Truly Remote Backblaze appeared first…...
Backblaze, Part of Computer History
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (422+ words) March 31, 2026 by Yev // No Comments Some innovations change the trajectory of a company, others change the trajectory of an entire industry. Today, I'm absolutely chuffed that one of our original Storage Pods, ul010 to be exact, is heading to the Computer…...
Backblaze Now Serving 314 Trillion Digits of Pi
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (412+ words) March 13, 2026 by Stephanie Doyle // No Comments Lots of us were taught that pi equals 3. 14. Maybe 3. 14159 if your teacher was ambitious. Akira Haraguchi, who holds the Guiness Book of World Records title for reciting the most digits of pi in a…...
Introducing the Backblaze Flamethrower Startup Program
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (653+ words) February 18, 2026 by Stephanie Doyle // No Comments The Backblaze Flameflower Startup Program is here, and it's built by people who've been burned before (and that's a good thing for you)." Startups don't fail because they pick the wrong cloud storage provider....
Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (716+ words) February 12, 2026 by Drive Stats Team // 5 Comments This year marks 13 years of collecting Drive Stats data. Thirteen is an unlucky number (to some), but we count our lucky stars (or perhaps our lucky stats?) that we've had 13 years of this experiment....
The New Shape of Risk: How Generative AI Is Changing the Security Landscape
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (797+ words) January 22, 2026 by Stephanie Doyle // No Comments As generative AI has shifted from selective experimentation to broad operational use, large language models (LLMs) now sit inside developer environments, support workflows, internal knowledge systems, and security tooling itself. Adoption has widened for…...
2025: That's a Wrap and Here Are the Stats
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (452+ words) December 23, 2025 by Stephanie Doyle // No Comments When most people think about year-end work, they think in terms of deadlines, retrospectives, and a well-earned break. Data centers have other ideas because, well, the internet still needs to work on holidays in…...
Scaling Generative AI Video Depends on Your Data Egress Strategy
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (819+ words) November 25, 2025 by Maddie Presland // No Comments The AI and cloud infrastructure industry talks endlessly about GPUs, model size, and compute capacity, but there's an invisible Achilles heel that can quietly undermine even the most promising AI projects: data egress. We…...