Storage is the least glamorous layer of the AI stack — and often the actual reason GenAI pipelines stall between pilot and production. Sam sits down with Troy, Senior Director of Solutions Engineering at Backblaze, to unpack what's really happening under the hood when AI infrastructure fails to scale.

Topics covered:

• What actually happens when a GPU sits idle — and the opportunity cost most teams don't account for
• Why storage bottlenecks are the hidden reason enterprise GenAI adoption stalls
• Backblaze's role as a capacity and data lake tier for companies building their own models
• Inside B2 Overdrive: dedicated bandwidth up to a terabit per second, predictable IOPS, and no egress charges
• Why hyperscalers prioritize large foundational model companies over startups and researchers whe ...