Backblaze’s Q1 2026 Network Stats report shows a slower winter period for neocloud and hyperscaler traffic, with activity beginning to rise again in March. The report examines network-level infrastructure data across Backblaze’s environment, providing context on how data movement is changing as AI-related workloads continue to influence cloud and storage usage patterns. Since the launch

KIOXIA has introduced the BG8 Series, a new client SSD line aimed at PC OEMs that brings the PCIe Gen5 interface into more mainstream systems. The lineup is designed for a broad range of everyday computing hardware, including slim laptops, consumer and commercial notebooks, and desktop PCs. KIOXIA BG8 Features and Performance KIOXIA’s BG8 Series

At Google CloudNext, IBM and Google Cloud announced an expanded collaboration to address a recurring challenge for enterprise customers: modernizing core systems and operationalizing AI across hybrid and multi-cloud environments without increasing complexity. The joint effort focuses on improving interoperability across platforms, data, and tooling while maintaining operational consistency and security. The partnership combines Google

The DGX Spark platform is familiar territory for us at this point. We’ve reviewed the Dell, ASUS, Acer, and Gigabyte takes on NVIDIA’s GB10 Grace Blackwell reference design, and the core ingredients are consistent across all of them: 1,000 TOPS of FP4 compute, 128GB of unified LPDDR5x memory, and dual 200GbE networking in a 150mm

NVIDIA and Google Cloud used Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas to outline a new phase of their long-standing engineering partnership, introducing updates to the Google Cloud AI Hypercomputer platform to scale agentic and physical AI for production environments. The companies continue to co-design infrastructure spanning silicon, systems, networking, and software to support increasingly complex

LaCie has been a fixture in our lab for well over a decade. From the 8big Rack Thunderbolt 2 we covered in 2014 through the many generations of 5big, 6big, 8big, and Rugged devices that have followed, the formula has been consistent: premium Neil Poulton-designed enclosures, Seagate drives inside, Mac-centric polish, a solid warranty, and a

Seagate’s FireCuda X Vault is the gaming-flavored half of a two-drive launch that brings bus-powered USB-C to 3.5-inch external hard drives for the first time. Available in 8TB and 20TB capacities starting at $269.99, it runs on a single USB-C cable for both data and power, provided the host port can supply at least 15W.

Seagate’s new One Touch Desktop HDD sidesteps one of the staples of the desktop external drive category: the power brick. The refreshed lineup runs 8TB, 20TB, and 24TB in a 3.5-inch chassis, but instead of a DC input and wall adapter, it draws everything it needs over a single USB-C cable. Seagate bills it as

When we published our story on Oregon State University’s plankton imaging research last November, the headline was the science: AI-accelerated infrastructure aboard research vessels, processing terabytes of ocean data in near real-time before the ship ever reached port. But something else happened quietly in the weeks that followed. Word spread across campus about what a