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INSERTING and REPLACING Backblaze to Present Strategy for Future-Proofing AI Initiatives at Gartner® IT Infrastructure, Operations, & Cloud Strategies Conference 2025
Head of GTM Patrick Thomas to outline how an independent data layer solves today’s data sprawl and creates long-term AI agility SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nHead of GTM Patrick Thomas to outline how an independent data layer solves today’s data sprawl and creates long-term AI agility\n\n SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nInsert after \"Meet with Backblaze at Gartner IOCS\" paragraph of release issued Dec. 2, 2025, at 1:01 p.m. PT/4:01 p.m. ET: About the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference: Gartner analysts will provide additional analysis on cloud strategies and infrastructure and operations trends at the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conferences 2025 taking place December 9-11, 2025, in Las Vegas. Follow news and updates from these conferences on X using #GartnerIO. Gartner is a trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates.\n\nThe updated release reads: \n\nBACKBLAZE TO PRESENT STRATEGY FOR FUTURE-PROOFING AI INITIATIVES AT GARTNER® IT INFRASTRUCTURE, OPERATIONS, & CLOUD STRATEGIES CONFERENCE 2025\n\nHead of GTM Patrick Thomas to outline how an independent data layer solves today’s data sprawl and creates long-term AI agility\n\nBackblaze, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLZE), the high-performance cloud storage platform for the AI era, today announced that Patrick Thomas, head of go-to-market (GTM), will present a theater session at the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations, & Cloud Strategies Conference 2025 (Gartner IOCS), taking place December 9–11 in Las Vegas, Nevada.\n\nThomas’s session will give infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders a strategic playbook for building an independent data layer to overcome data sprawl, optimize storage economics, and create the flexible foundation required for AI and multi-cloud initiatives.\n\nThe presentation will address a central challenge facing I&O leaders: decades of accumulated data sprawl and fragmented infrastructure—often marked by vendor lock-in and unpredictable egress fees—are major blockers to delivering AI-driven workloads such as retrieval augmented generation (RAG), inference, analytics, and multi-cloud compute. Thomas will outline how adopting an independent, vendor-neutral, S3-compatible data layer enables organizations to consolidate storage, unlock data mobility, and eliminate cost barriers that impede innovation.\n\nThomas will also highlight real-world examples of how organizations, including Big Cartel, Decart, urlscan.io, and a Fortune 100 media company, have mo...