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Backblaze Q1-2026 network report monthly sum of bits 95th by network type
Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

Backblaze Q1 2026 Network Stats: Neocloud Cools, CDN Climbs, Geography Comes into View

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 BG8
Client SSD  ◇  Consumer

KIOXIA Launches BG8 Client SSDs For Mainstream PC OEMs

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

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AI  ◇  Enterprise

IBM and Google Cloud Expand Partnership to Streamline Enterprise AI and Hybrid Cloud Operations

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

Consumer  ◇  Workstation

HP ZGX Nano G1n AI Station Review: A Secure, Sustainable Desk-Side AI Node

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

AI  ◇  Enterprise

NVIDIA and Google Cloud Expand AI Hypercomputer Platform at Next 2026

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

Consumer  ◇  Desktop Storage (External)

LaCie 8big Pro5 Review: 256TB of HAMR-Powered Thunderbolt 5 DAS

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

AI  ◇  Enterprise

How Metrum AI and Oregon State University Are Building the New Standard for Academic Assessment

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

ASUSTOR Lockerstor 24R Pro Gen2
Enterprise  ◇  Server

ASUSTOR Lockerstor 24R Pro Gen2 Available Now for Enterprise Storage and Virtualization

ASUSTOR has announced the availability of the Lockerstor 24R Pro Gen2 (AS7224RDX), a higher-end rackmount NAS for enterprise and multi-user deployments, pairing a 24-bay chassis with AMD’s Ryzen 7 Pro 7745 processor. The AMD chip delivers 8 cores, 16 threads, and boost speeds up to 5.3 GHz. The system is designed for virtualization, container workloads,