New Offering Expands Platform’s Proven Performance, Tech Stack & GPU Cloud Interoperability, and Affordability for Use Cases with Extreme Throughput
Backblaze, the cloud storage innovator offering a modern and affordable alternative to traditional providers, has unveiled Backblaze B2 Overdrive, a high-performance cloud storage solution engineered to deliver blazing-fast throughput of up to a terabit per second—starting at only $15 per terabyte. This offering dramatically undercuts the costs associated with legacy cloud providers.
Designed specifically for enterprises with demanding data throughput requirements, B2 Overdrive removes the long-standing trade-off between speed and cost that has historically hindered data-heavy workloads.
“Today’s AI, machine learning, and high-performance compute workloads demand both lightning-fast access to massive datasets and predictable economics that don’t penalize success,” said Gleb Budman, CEO at Backblaze. “With B2 Overdrive, we’re challenging the industry’s assumption that organizations must pay colossal prices for colossal performance. We’ve engineered a solution that delivers the sustained high-throughput organizations need, without the egress fees and complex pricing tiers that are pervasive of legacy providers.”
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Built on Backblaze’s robust always-hot cloud infrastructure, B2 Overdrive incorporates enhanced networking and storage capabilities to maintain terabit-scale data transfer speeds. By eliminating bottlenecks and unpredictable costs, it turns cloud storage from a budget concern into a business accelerator.
Key features include:
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Terabit-Scale Performance: Sustained throughput of up to 1 Tbps allows rapid ingestion and processing of exabyte-scale data without the need for overly complex architecture.
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No Egress Fees: Transfer data freely to any GPU cloud or compute cluster with zero egress charges, enabling truly scalable deployments.
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Private Networking Support: Accelerate data movement through secure, high-speed private network connections directly to your infrastructure.
“We need to store an insane amount of data and, at the same time, download it to different GPU clusters around the world, and for all that to not cost an insane amount of money. That’s why we chose Backblaze,” said Dean Leitersdorf, CEO and co-founder of generative AI platform Decart.
B2 Overdrive is tailored for organizations operating in high-throughput environments such as AI and machine learning (ML) training and inference, HPC (high-performance computing), large-scale analytics, media and video processing, research computing, and global content distribution.
With B2 Overdrive, Backblaze continues its mission to redefine the economics of cloud storage while empowering modern enterprises to move and process massive data sets—without compromise.