For all of our new users (and also you more experienced ones, too), we’d like to share some blazing power tips that will help you get the most out of Backblaze Backup for home and business.
Year: 2017
Backing Up More Effective and Less Costly than Data Recovery in NBC News Story
David Platt thought that his computer was adequately backed up, but when his hard drive crashed, he was forced to turn to a data recovery company to get back specific files and emails he needed. When the company recovered some data — but not the files and emails he wanted — and David was charged… Continue reading Backing Up More Effective and Less Costly than Data Recovery in NBC News Story
Lorelei Joins the Operations Crew
We’ve eclipsed the 400 Petabyte mark and our data center continues to grow. What does that mean? It means we need more great people working in our data centers making sure that the hard drives keep spinning and that sputtering drives are promptly dealt with. Lorelei is the newest Data Center Technician to join our… Continue reading Lorelei Joins the Operations Crew
What is HAMR and How Does It Enable the High-Capacity Needs of the Future?
In this guest post, Seagate CTO Mark Re gives us an inside look at how Seagate engineers are developing the HAMR technology that will dramatically increase hard drive capacity beginning in 2018.
2017 Holiday Gift Guide — Backblaze Style
Here at Backblaze we have a lot of folks who are all about technology. With the holiday season fast approaching, you might have all of your gift buying already finished — but if not, we put together a list of things that the employees here at Backblaze are pretty excited about giving (and/or receiving) this… Continue reading 2017 Holiday Gift Guide — Backblaze Style
The Operations Team Just Got Rich-er!
We’re growing at a pretty rapid clip, and as we add more customers, we need people to help keep all of our hard drives spinning. Along with support, the other department that grows linearly with the number of customers that join us is the operations team, and they’ve just added a new member to their… Continue reading The Operations Team Just Got Rich-er!
How to Back Up Your NAS With Backblaze B2 and MSP360
If you are using a Synology Network Attached Storage (NAS) device in your home or office, you’ve already discovered the value of centralizing all your files into one device. The next challenge is creating and maintaining an offsite copy of the files stored on your local NAS device. If you’re using a Windows PC, MSP360… Continue reading How to Back Up Your NAS With Backblaze B2 and MSP360
Zach Joins the Support Team
As Backblaze continues to grow, one thing that runs linearly with our growth is the number of folks we need in support. We believe strongly that people writing in to get a helping hand should be quickly and kindly take care of. To help us with that, we’d like to welcome Zach, our latest Support… Continue reading Zach Joins the Support Team
An Introduction to Managing Digital Photos and Videos
Whether you’re a serious amateur photographer, an Instagram fanatic, or a professional videographer, you’ve encountered the challenge of accessing, organizing, and storing your growing collection of digital photos and videos. The problems are similar for both amateur and professional — they vary chiefly in scale and cost — and the choices for addressing this challenge increase in number and complexity every day.
In this post we’ll be talking about the basics of managing digital photos and videos and trying to define the goals for a good digital asset management system (DAM).
What’s the Best Solution for Managing Digital Photos and Videos?
We’d like to open a dialog with serious amateur and professional photographers and videographers to learn more about what you’re doing to back up and manage your digital photos and videos, what your ideal solution would be, and how Backblaze could fit into your strategy.
What We’re Thankful For
All of us at Backblaze hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving, and that you can enjoy it with family and friends. We asked everyone at Backblaze to express what they are thankful for. Here are their responses.
The Decision on Transparency
“Are you crazy?” “Why would you do that?!” “You shouldn’t share that!” were just a few of the common questions and comments we heard over the years when Backblaze shared information about our business that most other companies do not. What was the thought process behind opening up? I’d like to explore the positives and negatives of being so transparent as a company.
B2 Cloud Storage Roundup
Over the past several months, B2 Cloud Storage has continued to grow like we planted magic beans. During that time we have added a B2 Java SDK, and certified integrations with GoodSync, Arq, Panic, UpdraftPlus, Morro Data, QNAP, Archiware, Restic, and more. In addition, B2 customers like Panna Cooking, Sermon Audio, and Fellowship Church are… Continue reading B2 Cloud Storage Roundup
Backing Up the Modern Enterprise with Backblaze for Business
Organizations of all types and sizes need reliable and secure backup. Whether they have as few as 3 or as many as 300,000 computer users, an organization’s computer data is a valuable business asset that needs to be protected. Modern organizations are changing how they work and where they work, which brings new challenges to… Continue reading Backing Up the Modern Enterprise with Backblaze for Business
Welcome Carlo!
As Backblaze continues to grow, we need to keep our web experience on point, so we put out a call for creative folks that can help us make the Backblaze experience all that it can be. We found Carlo! He’s a frontend web developer who used to work at Sea World. Lets learn a bit… Continue reading Welcome Carlo!
Happy Halloween!
Thank you so much to everyone who entered our Halloween Video Contest. We had a lot of fun watching the videos and have chosen a winner! There were many strong entries, but in the end we gave in to our love of Stranger Things. Which fits, because after years of hearing backup stories, some of… Continue reading Happy Halloween!
Hard Drive Stats for Q3 2017
In Q3 2017, Backblaze introduced both 10 TB and 12 TB hard drives into our data centers, we continued to retire 3 TB and 4 TB hard drives to increase storage density, and we added over 59 petabytes of data storage to bring our total storage capacity to 400 petabytes. In this update, we’ll review the Q3 2017 and lifetime hard drive failure rates for all our drive models in use at the end of Q3.
Improved Search for Backblaze’s Blog
There’s a lot of great content on the Backblaze blog, and we wanted to make it easier for visitors to find it. We had a list of requirements for how we wanted to improve site search on our blog. Here’s what we discovered on our mission to improve site search.