Name: Leveraging Your Cloud Storage Data in AI/ML Apps and Services
Start: 2024-07-09T17:00:00Z
End: 2024-07-09T17:00:48.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 4.6

Backblaze is a leading independent cloud provider that makes it astonishingly easy for people to store, protect, and use their data. Its B2 Cloud Storage platform offers always-hot, S3 compatible object storage that’s readily available through APIs, CLI, Web UI, and 3rd party integrations--to seamlessly support ranging workflows and fit hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, and other IaaS strategies. Its computer backup solutions offer automatic data protection for business fleets and home Mac and PC. We're here on BrightTalk to unpack product and solution updates, discuss best practices around data storage and protection, and openly share hard drive stats based on our experience spinning >200,000 drives. Thanks for joining us.

Learn how to accelerate media workflows by reading growing objects in the cloud.

Backblaze B2 Live Read

Tune in to uncover the full potential of Backblaze Event Notifications with Pat Patterson of Backblaze and CloudSpot’s co-founder Oleh Aleinyk. Delve into CloudSpot’s transformative shift to a best-of-breed technology stack that enabled their growth to petabyte-scale storage. Gain practical insights and an exclusive look at how your business can leverage Event Notifications to scale on an open cloud ecosystem.

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Building Event-Driven Workflows In The Open Cloud With CloudSpot

Join us for an exploration of how Twelve Labs' cutting-edge video AI technology integrates with Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage to streamline video content analysis. In this session, Pat Patterson from Backblaze and James Le from Twelve Labs will showcase how their AI technology enables businesses to unlock deep video insights directly from cloud storage, optimizing AI-driven object and event detection, transcripts, and more. Discover practical applications, seamless integration strategies, and a hands-on demo. Don't miss this opportunity to transform your video content strategy with AI and object storage, and leverage learnings to build next-gen applications.

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Vision Meets Storage: AI-Driven Insights with Twelve Labs

Unlock simplicity in backup recovery with Cloud Instant Backup Recovery. Join Troy Lijedahl, Backblaze and Greg Tellone, from Cloud IBR, and Marty Williams, Veeam, for a practical and technical BRaaS webinar.
  
You will receive an easy-to-implement Backup Recovery as a Service (BRaaS) playbook for cyber resilience and learn ransomware recovery tactics tailored for anyone who needs a simple and cost-effective disaster recovery solution to reduce RTOs from weeks to hours.

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Cloud Instant Backup Recovery A simple, cost-effective, and fully-automated Disaster Recovery SaaS platform for your Veeam backups stored in Backblaze B2 and Wasabi Object Storage, with on-demand, automation-driven Bare Metal Cloud server and storage infrastructure. The easy-to-use interface and affordability … Read More at
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Backup Recovery as a Service: Prepare for Ransomware With Backblaze + Cloud IBR

Struggling with AWS’s high egress costs and tricky workflows? Tune in to see how Amplify’s CTO, Ameya Pathare, tackled these issues by switching their object storage endpoint from Amazon S3 to Backblaze B2 while leveraging Snowflake for data warehousing. This shift not only reduced their cloud expenses but also maintained expected performance for end users. Dive into Amplify’s strategy with Backblaze and uncover actionable insights for enhancing data storage and workflow efficiency.

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Amplify’s Egress Win: Storing Smarter With Snowflake

Join Andy Klein as he shares analysis, insights, and stories from the 2023 Drive Stats report. Based on more than ten years of drive data and covering 30+ hard drive models, the 2023 Drive Stats report uniquely calls out the annualized failure rates of the drives Backblaze uses in operating over three exabytes of cloud storage. Whether you use one hard drive or manage an entire data center, you’re sure to come away with practical and valuable information you can use.

Backblaze Drive Stats for 2023

Data storage is a requirement for almost all organizations, but higher ed’s data storage needs are wholly distinct compared to traditional businesses. Higher education institutions store vast amounts of data from students, faculty, administrators and research centers – and some of this data needs to be easily accessed by multiple departments. Storing and managing data on this scale comes with unique security and cost concerns.

Join Government Technology and Backblaze for an insightful webinar tailored exclusively for higher education leaders on December 13, 2023, at 10 AM PT/1 PM ET. Our panel of experts will delve into the benefits of cloud storage for the higher education sector and how moving data to the cloud can help schools address challenges around security and costs. This 30-minute session will equip you with the knowledge to save on storage costs while driving resiliency from cyber threats.

You’ll Learn:

• Key data storage considerations and insights from our expert panel
• Steps education leaders can take to elevate data protection 
• How to build a cloud storage approach that meets your budgeting constraints

Streamline Higher Ed Data Storage: Strategies and Best Practices

In today's dynamic tech environment, decision-makers are looking for specialized solutions to develop cutting-edge applications. Backblaze Tech Day ’23 is your gateway to these solutions. Designed for forward-thinking CTOs, tech leaders, and innovators, this concise virtual event promises to equip you with insights and strategies to harness the power of specialized cloud technology. Discover how you can drive innovation, optimize costs, and achieve exceptional performance for your next-gen applications.

Here’s a glimpse of what to expect:

• Kickstart the event with insights from Gleb Budman, CEO, Backblaze. 
• Empowering Data-Driven Decisions: Integrating Snowflake With Backblaze B2 with Pat Patterson, Chief Technical Evangelist at Backblaze, and Saurin Shah, Senior Product Manager at Snowflake. 
• Trust in Every Byte: Securing Edge Workflows With Fastly Compute@Edge with Greg Hamer, Principal Developer Evangelist at Backblaze, and Dora Militaru, Developer Relations Engineer at Fastly. 
• Specialized Clouds, Superior Results: GPU-Driven AI/ML Applications with CoreWeave with Pat Patterson and Brandon Jacobs, Infrastructure Architect at CoreWeave.
• Safeguarding Your Stack: Building a Bulletproof Disaster Recovery Plan with Troy Liljedahl, Director, Solutions Engineering at Backblaze. 
• Dive into the latest in Drive Stats reporting in Drive Stats Insights with Andy Klein. 
• Address your burning questions in a live Q&A session.

And here's a bonus: the first 1,000 to register and attend will receive an exclusive Backblaze Tech Day ’23 shirt. Don't miss out—register now and secure your spot (and your shirt)!

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Backblaze Tech Day '23

As network attached storage (NAS) devices continue to gain popularity for their convenience and efficiency in data management, ensuring their security has never been more crucial. This is especially true in the current climate, where ransomware attacks are on the rise across all types of networked systems. 

The good news is that there are robust methods and tools available to keep your NAS devices secure and your data protected. In this must-attend webinar, we’ll guide you through effective methods to protect your NAS against the increasing threat of ransomware attacks. 

Join us to learn:
• The importance of securing NAS devices amid increasing risk of ransomware attacks.
• The critical role of off-site backups in a comprehensive 3-2-1 backup strategy.
• Actionable strategies you can employ to safeguard your NAS from ransomware.

Speakers:
• Vinodh Subramanian, Product Marketing Manager, Backblaze
• Danny Pinheiro, Sr. Solutions Engineer, Backblaze
• Daniel Francis-Lyon, Business Development Manager, QNAP Systems

Plus, all attendees will receive free NAS cybersecurity resources, including essential checklists, case studies, and best practice guides. Register now. 

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Mastering Cybersecurity with QNAP and Backblaze B2: The 3-2-1 Backup Blueprint

Object Lock allows Backblaze B2 customers to make data immutable, preventing files from being changed or deleted until a given date. Off-the-shelf products, such as backup software, leverage Object Lock to protect data that is stored in Backblaze B2 from threats like ransomware or for regulatory compliance. In this webinar, Pat Patterson, Chief Technical Evangelist at Backblaze, will present a deeper look at Object Lock. Pat will explain Object Lock's governance, compliance, and legal hold modes, how to enable Object Lock at the bucket and file level, and how to take advantage of Object Lock in your own applications.

This webinar is essential viewing for any IT professional responsible for archiving or backing up data, and any developer writing applications that leverage cloud object storage.

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Inside Object Lock: Ransomware Protection for Application Developers

Are you confident that your data backups are airtight and also easily recoverable? In 30 quick minutes, take away high-impact learning and practical tips, including:

• How 3-2-1 strategies can fail you. 
• How to better protect against ransomware.
• How to plug the gaps in your backup strategy

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10 Common Data Protection Mistakes

Veeam’s version 12 release introduced a wealth of new features that expand the way enterprises can use cloud storage and on-premises object storage for data protection. Join us to learn key considerations for your object storage strategy and how to increase your defenses with new possibilities for immutability.

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Uplevel Veeam Protection: New Possibilities for Object Storage & Immutability

The question isn’t if your business will face a security incident, but when. Ransomware, employee errors, and natural disasters all threaten your bottom line. Join us to learn more about how to strengthen your organization’s cyber resilience by protecting systems, responding to incidents, and recovering with minimal disruption. 

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Build Cyber Resilience: Protect, Respond, and Recover From Security Incidents

Join Disaster Recovery Expert, Greg Tellone (CEO of Continuity Centers), Rasmus Haslund (Veeam), and Elton Carneiro (Backblaze), as they discuss the increasing challenges with ransomware and disaster recovery, as well as what prompted Greg to make a drastic change from on-premises storage to the cloud with Backblaze and Veeam.  

In this fireside chat, you will learn:

• Why Continuity Centers chose to build its disaster recovery service offering with Veeam and Backblaze. 

• The ease of moving your capacity tier from on-premises to Backblaze’s always-hot cloud storage.

• How Veeam Backup and Recovery v12 Direct to Object Storage functionality opens up new possibilities for your bulletproof backup plan. 

• The ins and outs of Continuity Centers’ Instant Business Recovery, which leverages Veeam + Backblaze B2 to bring your business online ASAP after a disaster of any kind.

Build a DRaaS Offering at No Extra Cost With Veeam and Backblaze

Come and join Pat Patterson, Backblaze's Chief Technical Evangelist, and James Ross, the CTO of Nodecraft, as they take a trip down memory lane and look back at Nodecraft's first five years as a Backblaze customer. James will explain why he chose Backblaze B2 as Nodecraft's cloud storage platform in early 2018, how his team transferred terabytes of saved game worlds from Amazon S3 to Backblaze B2 in just seven hours, and the impact this decision had on Nodecraft's ability to expand its business and cater to new customers since then.

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Leveling up a Global Gaming Platform While Slashing Cloud Spend by 85%

SaaS and other modern businesses that are locked into traditional hyperscaler infrastructure are often forced to make trade-offs between spend and performance as they scale with limited budgets. Instead of sacrificing budget or performance, building on best-of-breed, specialized cloud stacks customized for their business model provides a better alternative, allowing them to scale sustainably. In this session, we’ll explore:

• How to effectively leverage Backblaze B2 and Vultr cloud compute to scale application workloads. 
• Customer spotlights: 
       ○ Can Stock Photo breaks free from AWS and reduces cloud bill by 55% and achieves 4x faster generation.
       ○ Monument Labs, Inc. launches a new cloud-based photo management service to 25,000+ users.
       ○ Black.ai processes 1000s of files simultaneously, with a significant reduction in infrastructure costs.
• And more!

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Reducing Cloud OpEx Without Sacrificing Performance and Speed

Media workflows face unique challenges, such as managing data growth, collaborating with remote team members, and accessing files—all while ensuring data security. These challenges can result in inefficiencies, delays, and decreased productivity. However, with the right tools, media workflows can be optimized for improved collaboration, easy file access and sharing, resulting in increased productivity across the organization. 

Join media experts James Flores and Xris Nil, as well as Vinodh Subramanian, as they talk about how to optimize media workflows in remote media and entertainment teams to unlock media collaboration with hybrid cloud storage. 

Plus, we’re giving away a Synology two-bay NAS device (Model: DS220+) and $100 credit for Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage to one lucky attendee. Don’t miss the chance to win!

Presented by:

• Xris Nil, Technical Account Manager, Synology
• James Flores, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Backblaze
• Vinodh Subramanian, Product Marketing Manager, Backblaze 

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Unlocking Media Collaboration: How To Boost Productivity on Hybrid Cloud Storage

With the exponential rise of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) applications over the past few years, more developers are integrating these technologies with Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage. In this webinar, Backblaze Evangelists Pat Patterson and Andy Klein will explore various ways AI/ML applications use and store data, share insights from our customers who leverage Backblaze B2 for their AI/ML needs, and demonstrate a simple use case of how you can harness AI to extract more value from your data. With Backblaze B2's 3x free egress, you can easily choose the best solutions for your compute needs without worrying about download costs, making Backblaze B2 a practical and cost-effective choice for scaling AI/ML applications.

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