TheCUBE’s Rob Strechay kicks off this KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America preview with Backblaze CEO and co-founder Gleb Budman, discussing why storage is the cornerstone to proper AI deployment. Budman outlines how Backblaze B2 – an S3-compatible, affordable, high-performance storage platform – is used across the AI pipeline: data collection, labeling, training, inference and logging. He shares how organizations are minimizing the idle time for graphics processing units time by staging data for fast access. Budman highlights B2 Overdrive, described as “the fastest throughput-per-dollar storage,” delivering up to a terabit per second to hyperscalers, neocloud GPU providers or on-premises clusters. Unpredictable AI costs come up in conversation, with Budman emphasizing fixed per-TB pricing and free egress so teams can move data where they need it without surprise charges.
Budman goes on to detail Universal Data Migration, a service that moves data from AWS, Google, Microsoft, on-prem and more into Backblaze while helping to subsidize source egress fees, enabling “land once, use many” strategies across clouds and Kubernetes environments. He also previews Backblaze’s first-ever KubeCon presence at Booth 1742 near Startup Village – complete with a limited-edition Overdrive hot sauce – illustrating how Backblaze is bringing the spice to AI at scale.
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TheCUBE’s Rob Strechay kicks off this KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America preview with Backblaze CEO and co-founder Gleb Budman, discussing why storage is the cornerstone to proper AI deployment. Budman outlines how Backblaze B2 – an S3-compatible, affordable, high-performance storage platform – is used across the AI pipeline: data collection, labeling, training, inference and logging. He shares how organizations are minimizing the idle time for graphics processing units time by staging data for fast access. Budman highlights B2 Overdrive, described as “the fastest throughput-per-dollar storage,” delivering up to a terabit per second to hyperscalers, neocloud GPU providers or on-premises clusters. Unpredictable AI costs come up in conversation, with Budman emphasizing fixed per-TB pricing and free egress so teams can move data where they need it without surprise charges.
Budman goes on to detail Universal Data Migration, a service that moves data from AWS, Google, Microsoft, on-prem and more into Backblaze while helping to subsidize source egress fees, enabling “land once, use many” strategies across clouds and Kubernetes environments. He also previews Backblaze’s first-ever KubeCon presence at Booth 1742 near Startup Village – complete with a limited-edition Overdrive hot sauce – illustrating how Backblaze is bringing the spice to AI at scale.
TheCUBE’s Rob Strechay kicks off this KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America preview with Backblaze CEO and co-founder Gleb Budman, discussing why storage is the cornerstone to proper AI deployment. Budman outlines how Backblaze B2 – an S3-compatible, affordable, high-performance storage platform – is used across the AI pipeline: data collection, labeling, training, inference and logging. He shares how organizations are minimizing the idle time for graphics processing units time by staging data for fast access. Budman highlights B2 Overdrive, described as “th...Read more
