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Year: 2026

Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025

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Backblaze’s 2025 Year-End Drive Stats Report provides an in-depth analysis of hard drive failure rates for Q4, the full year, and lifetime performance across its data center fleet.

Published February 12, 2026
Categorized as Cloud Storage, Featured, Featured-Cloud Storage, Hard Drive Stats Tagged B2Cloud

A Deeper Look at S3 Compatible Lifecycle Rules in Backblaze B2

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Learn more about how Backblaze B2’s S3 compatible lifecycle rules facilitate lift-and-shift migrations from AWS S3, enabling effective data cost management and compliance in multi-cloud environments.

Published February 5, 2026
Categorized as Cloud Storage, Featured, Featured-Cloud Storage, Tech Lab Tagged B2Cloud, Developer

Network Stats for Q4 2025: Neocloud Traffic Trends

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Backblaze’s Q4 2025 Network Stats detail the significant surge and regional concentration of AI-driven Neocloud traffic, marking an early shift toward high-magnitude, specialized network flows.

Published January 29, 2026
Categorized as Cloud Storage, Featured, Featured-Cloud Storage, Tech Lab Tagged AI/ML, B2Cloud, NetworkStats

The New Shape of Risk: How Generative AI Is Changing the Security Landscape

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Generative AI is shifting the security paradigm, creating new control surfaces for attackers and amplifying classic threat vectors like phishing and data exfiltration. Let’s talk about trends.

Published January 22, 2026
Categorized as Cloud Storage, Featured Tagged AI/ML, B2Cloud

A Developer’s Guide to Migrating Multimodal AI Training Data (and Putting It to Work) with Pixeltable

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Learn how to eliminate custom glue code and data alignment issues in multimodal AI pipelines by migrating media and metadata with NiFi and Airbyte, versioning with lakeFS, and using Pixeltable on Backblaze B2 to create queryable, production-ready training assets.

Published January 21, 2026
Categorized as Cloud Storage, Featured, Hybrid Cloud, Partner News Tagged AI/ML, B2Cloud

Why “Build” Is a Bigger Distraction Than You Think for Neoclouds

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For neoclouds, building specialized storage infrastructure via Ceph or a custom approach can be a costly “build trap” that distracts engineers from core business; partnering with a storage specialty like Backblaze provides an instantly available, S3-compatible, and minimal-overhead solution.

Published January 13, 2026
Categorized as Cloud Storage Tagged B2Cloud

Cloud Egress Fees: What They Are And How To Reduce Them

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Traditional cloud storage pricing models come with complexity—by which we mean fees. Today, let’s talk about what egress fees are and where they fit into your cloud storage strategy.

Published January 7, 2026
Categorized as CDN, Cloud Storage, Featured, Partner News Tagged B2Cloud