Backblaze Signs $335 Million Storage Deal With CoreWeave

Forbes reported that Backblaze signed a $335 million agreement with CoreWeave to supply HDD-based storage capacity for portions of CoreWeave’s managed storage infrastructure. The deal helps optimize data placement across performance tiers while preserving high-performance resources for AI workloads. Backblaze supplies HDD-based storage tiers in CoreWeave AI Object Storage.

Forbes reported that Panmnesia presented results from its CXL controller and CXL switch chips at the 2026 ISCA conference. Meta deployed the CXL controller and PBR switch chips in a real-world production environment. Meta reported that CXL memory expansion reduced the number of servers needed for distributed AI inference by up to 25 percent and shortened average response times of distributed caches by about 29 percent.

Forbes reported that Cloudera and Vast Data announced a partnership to deliver AI data across on-premises environments and public clouds. The solution combines Cloudera’s containerized data services with the Vast AI Operating System. The Vast AI Operating System is based on the Nvidia AI Data Platform reference design, integrates vector database services with Nvidia cuVS for GPU-accelerated vector indexing and search, and delivers exabyte-scale data infrastructure.