Name: Harnessing Cloud Storage to Build Smarter AI Agents
Start: 2025-05-14T17:00:00Z
End: 2025-05-14T17:00:45.000Z
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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.

Join Andy Klein for his last hurrah as our resident Drive Stats guru as he shares analysis, insights, and stories from the 2024 Drive Stats report. Yes, you heard that right: It’s Andy’s last Drive Stats report before he heads off to retirement. This is your last chance to ask Andy those Drive Stats questions you've had spinning round in your head like so many drives, and your first chance to meet the new Drive Stats team—Stephanie Doyle and David Johnson of Backblaze Blog fame. Join us to say goodbye, say hello, and learn more about Drive Stats.
About Drive Stats
Based on more than 11 years of drive data and covering 30+ hard drive models, the 2024 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 2024

Opti9's Cory Mac Donell and Backblaze’s Troy Liljedahl chat about cloud object storage for the media and entertainment industry.

With data volumes growing exponentially, organizations need cost-effective, scalable solutions to manage, protect, and access their content. In this 30-minute Tech Talk, our experts explore how Backblaze seamlessly integrates with industry workflows, helping M&E businesses optimize storage costs without sacrificing performance.

Whether you manage massive archives or active production data, this session will give you practical insights into streamlining your storage strategy.

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Opti9 Tech Talks | Exploring the Benefits of Cloud Object Storage for the Media + Entertainment Industry

If your backup infrastructure feels like a complex maze of storage tiers, vendors, and management headaches, there's a simpler way. Start with an easy-to-use, secure cloud storage foundation that just works.

Join us to discover:
- Why traditional cloud storage creates unnecessary complexity for backup and recovery
- How simple, immutable object storage changes the game
- Ways to integrate easy, secure storage with your existing backup tools
- Real-world examples of an organizations that simplified their backup storage while strengthening security

Taming the Data Storm: Simplifying backup and recovery in the cloud

Learn how to leverage cyber insurance requirements to drive your MSP’s growth. Kevin Schmidt, Channel & Security Partnerships Lead at Coalition, and Yev Pusin, Head of Computer Backup at Backblaze, will take you through the world of cyber readiness to help you understand how services like Backblaze Computer Backup can reduce cybersecurity risk and allow your clients to be insurable by Coalition. 

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Expand Your MSP’s Footprint: Leverage Cyber Insurance Requirements to Drive Growth with Coalition and Backblaze

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 IBR - Cloud IBR
Cloud Instant Backup Recovery A simple, cost-effective, and fully-automated Disaster Recovery SaaS platform for your Veeam backups stored in Backblaze B2 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, Veeam and Cloud IBR

As ransomware attacks become increasingly prevalent, organizations of all sizes are at risk of experiencing significant disruption and financial losses. No matter how well your prevention efforts are, having a well thought out and implemented recovery plan is critical—especially for your M365 or Google Workspace environments.  Join us to learn how the combination of Parablu + Backblaze delivers unbeatable, simple-to-manage, and highly affordable recovery capabilities for your M365 and Google Workspace.

Ransomware recovery for M365 and Google Workspace is optimized through the integration between Parablu + Backblaze. By leveraging automated backups, versioning, and off-site storage, Parablu + Backblaze ensures swift and comprehensive data restoration. Coupled with robust security measures and regular testing, this solution provides a reliable and efficient way to safeguard against and recover from ransomware attacks.

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Ransomware Resilience: Protecting M365, Google Workspace, and Servers with Parablu & Backblaze

Join us for Backblaze Tech Day 2024, designed for businesses looking to scale their AI apps and services with specialized, open cloud technology. Discover how to break free from costly legacy infrastructure and reduce unnecessary spend. Our event features live talks and sessions with leading infrastructure partners, showcasing AI innovation and real-world success stories. Plus, enjoy exclusive swag for the first 500 registrants and attendees.  

Key sessions include:

* Building Productive AI Infrastructure with Ori 
* Turning Video Content into Real-World Insights with Twelve Labs 
* Winning the Future of AI: Infrastructure, Workflows, and the Open Cloud
* Predicting Hard Drive Failure Rates with AI—with a sneak peek at Q3 Drive Stats numbers 
* Live Q&A with experts

Register now to receive updates and secure your spot!

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Backblaze Tech Day '24

Are you looking to enhance your data backup processes and ensure the safety of your critical information? Join us for an insightful webinar where we'll explore how Backblaze and Jellyfish can revolutionize your data backup strategy. Discover the power of automation and optimization to streamline your workflows and safeguard your data like never before.

What you'll learn:
- Best practices for data backups: Learn the essential strategies for ensuring reliable and secure data backups that protect your valuable information from loss or damage.
- Seamless setup and configuration: Get step-by-step guidance on setting up Backblaze and Jellyfish to maximize efficiency and effectiveness in your backup processes.
- Optimization techniques: Uncover advanced optimization techniques that will help you reduce costs, save time, and improve the performance of your data backups.

Who should attend?
This webinar is perfect for IT professionals, data managers, and anyone interested in enhancing their data protection strategies. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced user, you'll find valuable insights and actionable tips to implement in your organization.

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Streamline Your Data Backup Process: Automation and Optimization with Backblaze and Jellyfish

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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Leveraging Your Cloud Storage Data in AI/ML Apps and Services

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

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

Your company’s data is a powerful resource—learn how to harness it with an AI agent designed to generate meaningful insights. In this deep dive, Backblaze’s Pat Patterson will demonstrate how to build an AI agent that can query, analyze, and generate insights from company-specific data—all powered by cost-efficient, scalable cloud storage.

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