Year: 2013

A Million Dollars Worth of Backblaze

Backblaze is giving away one million dollars worth of the Backblaze Personal Backup service. “Whoa,” you say, “Backblaze is like the thriftiest company ever, now they’re giving away a million dollars worth of their service, what gives?” That’s a fair question. Here’s the deal… Starting immediately and running through the end of World Backup Day… Continue reading A Million Dollars Worth of Backblaze

Incredible Invoices!

Backblaze has a great support team and one of the most frequent requests they receive is, “Could you please provide an invoice?” From the beginning, we’ve been handcrafting every invoice that’s been sent out, and while we love making our customers happy, as Backblaze has grown it’s become increasingly difficult to keep up with all… Continue reading Incredible Invoices!

180TB of Good Vibrations: Storage Pod 3.0

To get the latest updates and informationon ALL of the Storage Pod versions. Click Here. We thought ten people would care; instead, a million people read our “Storage Pod 1.0” blog post where we open sourced the Backblaze Storage Pod design and introduced the world’s most cost efficient way to store big data. The interest… Continue reading 180TB of Good Vibrations: Storage Pod 3.0

Backblaze: The Strong Silent Type

Our first “restory” is actually two stories, each lovingly crafted and delivered to Backblaze. And you thought online backup couldn’t be romantic… A One Way Street I think I should take this time to just tell you what our relationship is: a one way street. Honestly, I don’t think about you at all. You just… Continue reading Backblaze: The Strong Silent Type

Data Restores: More, More, and Even More!

Editor’s note: On March 3, 2022, Backblaze ended the USB flash drive restore option. While we parted ways with USB flash drives, we continue to offer many options for restoring your files—explore ways to recover your data here. For all our talk about online backup, restoring data is what Backblaze is all about! “Backblaze saved… Continue reading Data Restores: More, More, and Even More!

Software Engineer: Monika

Bringing with her a master’s of science degree from MIT and a handful of patents, Monika joins Backblaze as a Software Engineer. She’ll initially work on the server side of our service and she’s already busy checking in new code. Welcome Monika. How did you get into computers? I took a basic language course in… Continue reading Software Engineer: Monika

Honoring Our Drive Farmers

Back in November, our drive farming brigade was asked to farm hard drives for us over the Thanksgiving holiday. Hundreds of drives showed up and we dutifully sent them to our warehouse. They joined our drive stockpile and patiently waited for their chance to reach their hard drive destiny and be part of a Backblaze… Continue reading Honoring Our Drive Farmers

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