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.
Year: 2026
A Deeper Look at S3 Compatible Lifecycle Rules in Backblaze B2
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.
Network Stats for Q4 2025: Neocloud Traffic Trends
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.
The New Shape of Risk: How Generative AI Is Changing the Security Landscape
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.
A Developer’s Guide to Migrating Multimodal AI Training Data (and Putting It to Work) with Pixeltable
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.
Why “Build” Is a Bigger Distraction Than You Think for Neoclouds
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.
Cloud Egress Fees: What They Are And How To Reduce Them
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.