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Jun 12
Manual media logging is costing you revenue. See how top studios are scaling deliverables 80% faster with AI. hubs.ly/Q04ldsB20
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Jun 12
AI models are commoditizing. Every few months, a new best-in-class model drops. If your application is hard-coded to a single AI provider, you are building a house of cards.
The real moat is your pipeline orchestration. Here is how we’re solving it with Genblaze. 🔥➡️ hubs.ly/Q04ldl9C0
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Jun 10
"We had backups."
That didn't mean recovery was easy.
Hear the real story behind a LockBit ransomware attack from Zach Lewis, CIO/CISO and author of Locked Up.
📅 June 12
⏰ 10 am PST / 12 pm CST
Topics:
✅ Recovery lessons
✅ Incident response
✅ Leadership under pressure
✅ What IT teams should do now
Register to attend live or get the recording: hubs.ly/Q04kd5nB0
#Ransomware #CyberSecurity #CIO #CTO #ITDirector #SysAdmin #InfoSec #DisasterRecovery
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Jun 10
#AI data flows aren't just heavy—they break traditional #DataCenter networking. #Neocloud architectures fix the bottleneck AND keep GPU costs up to 85% lower.
Read the breakdown from @NetworkWorld. hubs.ly/Q04kPLdp0
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Jun 9
Cold storage is an #AI cost trap. 💸
When #DataScience teams need legacy data to train models, cold tiers hit you with brutal API charges and delayed retrieval times. Those "cheap" tiers are penalizing innovation.
Escape the trap and keep #FinOps happy 🔥➡️ hubs.ly/Q04kL4Gd0
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Jun 9
Ransomware doesn't care about your backup window.
Backblaze Computer Backup continuously protects endpoint data so IT teams can recover faster after an attack.
Unlimited backup.
One-year retention.
Rapid recovery.
Learn More: hubs.ly/Q04kzyKw0
#Ransomware #CyberSecurity #ITOps #DataProtection
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Jun 8
Hot take:
Backup software shouldn't be a project.
If your IT team spends hours troubleshooting backups, chasing storage limits, or managing complex policies, something's wrong.
Backup should run quietly in the background while you focus on higher-value work.
Learn more about Backblaze Computer Backup: hubs.ly/Q04kdg0Y0
#EndpointBackup #SysAdmin #DataProtection
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Jun 5
“We thought it was just a hardware outage.”
It was actually LockBit ransomware.
Join CIO/CISO Zach Lewis for a real-world breakdown of the UHSP ransomware attack:
🔒 What failed
💾 Why backups weren’t enough
⚠️ What IT teams should change now
📅 Fri, June 12
⏰ 10 am PST / 12 pm CST
Live Q&A recording included with registration: hubs.ly/Q04kd8MR0
#Ransomware #CyberSecurity #CIO #CTO #ITDirector #SysAdmin #InfoSec #DRaaS
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Jun 5
An eye-watering GPU budget shouldn't fund idle compute. Under-architected data pipelines are the ultimate AI bottleneck—if storage can't keep pace, premium hardware stalls. Fix the plumbing to protect your ROI.
Read the breakdown 🔥➡️ hubs.ly/Q04kcfKx0
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Jun 4
#AIAI NYC is a wrap! Fantastic day with AI decision makers across GenAI and Agentic AI, plus Chief AI Officers and CISOs attending respective summits all in one place—the heart of New York.
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Jun 4
We're at #AIAI NYC today. Backblaze Director of Applied AI, @iamjdeleon, spoke about Pipelines, Provenance, and Storage for GenAI media at scale for the conference's GenAI track. As GenAI scales, everything from signed manifests, to versioning and generation lineage means that your storage layer needs to scale without constraints.
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Jun 3
Marketing slides don't run production pipelines—hard telemetry does. 📊
From #AIBigDataExpo, Stephanie Doyle & Maddie Presland cut through benchmark hype to reveal the real fleet data driving object storage selection.
Watch the interview 👉 hubs.ly/Q04jWWhz0
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Jun 3
Gartner predicts 60% of AI projects will be abandoned without AI-ready data. That is an expensive graveyard of wasted development hours.
Centralize your ingest layer to turn raw data into a massive strategic advantage.
Download the complete dataset economics playbook 🔥➡️ hubs.ly/Q04jWn4y0
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Jun 2
The platform pitch: one vendor, one console, one contract.
The catch: convenience can become constraint.
As AI and high-performance workloads evolve, modular infrastructure gives teams the flexibility to optimize each layer for cost, performance, and agility.
Best-of-breed is back.
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Jun 1
Our Q1 2026 Network Stats “bits per IP” analysis shows how concentrated, persistent #Neocloud traffic differs from traditional distribution. Discover what this means for network design.
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May 29
Autonomous agents produce a massive trail of logs, artifacts, and memory files. Without orchestration, this becomes dark data—unindexed, unmanaged, and effectively invisible to your organization.
Build durable agent infrastructure from day one: hubs.ly/Q04jdfgD0
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May 29
Ransomware doesn’t usually succeed because of one catastrophic failure. It succeeds because systems were designed for scale—not for adversaries.
In this piece, Kari Wilson breaks down what it means to create resilient systems aren’t built on assumptions of safety. For IT and security leaders, this isn’t theory. It’s design strategy.
Read the full article 🔥➡️
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May 28
With the U.S. housing 40–45% of global datacenters, our latest Network Stats report shows the highest concentration of #Neocloud and hyperscaler traffic flowing through Backblaze’s U.S. regions. At the state level, California leads #Neocloud traffic while Ashburn anchors hyperscaler density.
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May 27
The hidden killer of GenAI margins isn't the GPU bill. It’s data egress.
Production changes the game. Teams launch models and face massive, punitive penalties just for moving data across clouds. B2 Overdrive eliminates the infrastructure bottleneck. hubs.ly/Q04j3Y0-0
📹: Senior Director of Solutions Engineering Troy Liljedahl speaking at AI & Big Data Expo in San Jose last week.
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May 27
EBITDA masks cloud cash burn.
CFO Marc Suidan tells @CFOBrew how ditching it for free cash flow delivered positive cash flow and a 24% YoY revenue surge to $22.4M.
Read how 🔥➡️ hubs.ly/Q04h_WBy0
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