Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup

Welcome to the Q2 2026 Network Stats report. While we’ve been tracking trends since December 2023, this is the third quarter since we

You’ve done the storage evaluation. The per-terabyte price is right. The durability numbers check out. Compliance boxes are ticked. And still, the cloud migration project hasn’t been approved.

That’s not a coincidence.

The cloud storage industry has spent years competing on what happens after you’re already locked in: performance, redundancy, featu...

Long time readers: I must start with a mea culpa that this article was not released on our traditional May the Fourth (or thereabouts) report date. Please know I missed making the many and sundry Star Wars puns as much as (I’m sure) you missed hearing them—so, I’ll probably slip a few in, just because.

That said, there was good reason for the delay. We were...

On April 7, 2026, Anthropic announced a model so capable they refused to release it publicly. Claude Mythos, their most advanced frontier AI, was deemed too dangerous for open access because of one thing: it can hack.

Not in the vague, theoretical sense that sec...