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Company strengthens go-to-market leadership as AI workloads drive new storage demand Backblaze, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLZE), the high-performance cloud storage platform for the AI era, today announced the appointment of Anuj Kumar as Chief Revenue Officer. Kumar brings more than two decades of experience scaling cloud revenue organizations at enterprise infrastructure companies — most notably driving NetApp's worldwide cloud business during a period of significant growth. He joins Backblaze as Backblaze advances its go-to-market transformation and AI adoption drives a new phase of infrastructure demand. The appointment follows a period of accelerated momentum for Backblaze's B2 Cloud Storage business, which grew 26% year over year in 2025, and recently added new offerings targeting neoclouds and AI-native developers, as well as closing its first eight-figure total contract value deal. "The buildout of AI infrastructure is one of the largest capital replatformings in the history of enterprise

Presentations will highlight modern media workflows ready for the AI era Backblaze, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLZE), the high-performance cloud storage platform for the AI era, today announced a series of partner showcases for media professionals attending the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show. The showcases will highlight the latest in modern media workflows, AI technologies, and how to best produce, protect and distribute media. Backblaze will be hosting the presentations in North Hall, booth N1259, and invites all NAB exhibition hall badge holders to attend. Showcase partners will include: Backlight (Iconik), Hiscale, Imaginario, Qencode featuring Sardius, Suite Studios, Telestream, Tillered and Twelve Labs. The presentation schedule (all times Pacific): Monday, April 20, 2026: 11 a.m.: Jose Puga, CEO & Co-founder, Imaginario From Archive to Action: How AI Is Turning Your Video Library Into a Revenue Engine 12 p.m.: Jay Maxwell, CPO and co-founder, Suite S3 Native

Data suggests enterprises relying on one vendor may be leaving performance and money on the table Backblaze, Inc . (Nasdaq: BLZE), the high-performance cloud storage platform for the AI era, today released its Q1 2026 Performance Stats report , the second installment in its quarterly cloud storage performance testing series. The report expands testing to EU-Central for the first time and reveals that cloud storage performance varies meaningfully across geographies. Part of an ongoing, transparent benchmarking initiative, Performance Stats is designed to build a repeatable, industry-wide dataset and testing methodology to help developers, IT leaders, and researchers evaluate cloud storage performance over time. This quarter’s report tests Backblaze B2, AWS S3, Cloudflare R2, and Wasabi Object Storage across US-East and EU-Central. As with the first Performance Stats report , Backblaze published the full testing methodology, allowing technology companies, researchers, and end users to

The watershed open-sourced design marks a milestone in open hardware innovation and cements its place in computer history. Backblaze, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLZE), the high-performance cloud storage platform for the AI era, today announced that one of its original Storage Pod 1.0 chassis will be preserved in the Computer History Museum’s permanent collection. First externally introduced in 2009 in the blog post “ Petabytes on a Budget ”, Backblaze’s Storage Pod emerged from a practical challenge, delivering affordable, scalable cloud storage as a bootstrapped startup. By combining off-the-shelf components for a custom storage server and publicly sharing the design, Backblaze challenged proprietary infrastructure models, and demonstrated that enterprise-grade storage could be built at a fraction of traditional costs. “When Backblaze began in 2007, their goal was to provide unlimited cloud backup storage for $5 a month. Their first product relied on hardware—Storage Pod 1.0—which represented a

Backblaze, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLZE) today announced that on March 24, 2026, it granted an equity inducement award to Rhett Dillingham, the Company’s Senior Vice President of Product, and Joey Myers, the Company’s Vice President of Revenue Operations, as a material inducement to each of Mr. Dillingham and Mr. Myers’ employment with the Company. The inducement award consists of 194,240 restricted stock units (“RSUs”) for Mr. Dillingham and 82,650 RSUs for Mr. Myers. The RSUs will vest as to 25% of the underlying shares after one year, with the balance vesting in equal quarterly installments over the remaining three years, subject in each case to Mr. Dillingham’s and Mr. Myers’ continued employment with Backblaze through each applicable vesting date. About Backblaze Backblaze (NASDAQ: BLZE) gives businesses the freedom to innovate without limits by removing the barriers of lock-in, complexity, and cost. Our high-performance cloud object storage accelerates AI workflows, powers data-heavy

The panel will focus on how modern sports workflows are being designed from build to broadcast to fan experience. Backblaze, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLZE), the high-performance cloud storage platform for the AI era, today announced that Laquie T.N. Campbell, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Media & Entertainment at Backblaze , will speak at NAB Show 2026 in the SMPTE panel session, “From Build to Broadcast to Fan Experience in Live Sports Systems.” The panel will take place Saturday, April 18, from 3:00 to 3:55 p.m. in room N259. Presented as part of the SMPTE Visual Innovation and Brilliant Engineering Conference, the panel will examine how live sports broadcasting is evolving from a single signal into an extensible, end-to-end system designed to support multiple experiences, platforms, and audiences from a shared infrastructure foundation. The discussion will focus on how personalization and innovation are operationalized across the workflow, from AI-enabled design and production

Backblaze, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLZE), the high-performance cloud storage platform for the AI era, today announced a partnership with StorageReview to make StorageReview’s record-breaking 314 trillion digits of pi available to the pi enthusiasts both serious and casual. Backblaze and StorageReview partner to make the record 314 trillion digits of pi available, but what exactly is pi? Totaling over 130 terabytes of data, the record-breaking 314 trillion digits of pi was calculated by StorageReview in December 2025 and is being made available via the Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage service to the public. Says StorageReview.com Founder Brian Beeler: “Pushing π to 314 trillion digits was far more than a headline number. It was a sustained, months-long computational challenge that stressed every layer of modern infrastructure, from high core-count CPUs to massive high-speed storage, and it gave us valuable insight into how extreme, real-world workloads behave at scale. Making this dataset available in