We hope that CrashPlan Home customers who are reaching the end of service on October 22 will consider adopting Backblaze for their backup service.
Year: 2018
Hard Drive Stats for Q3 2018: Less is More
As of September 30, 2018 Backblaze had 99,636 spinning hard drives in our data centers, which now includes a large number of 12 TB drives. Here’s our latest report on how they’re all doing, and a brief look at the direction we’ll be heading in the future.
Welcome Cheryl — Data Center Tech
Our data center team continues to grow at a rapid pace as we’re now storing way over 600 petabytes of data! The latest addition to the team is Cheryl, who joins our team as a datacenter technician! Lets learn a bit more about Cheryl, shall we? What is your Backblaze title? Data Center Technician. Where… Continue reading Welcome Cheryl — Data Center Tech
Move Even Your Largest Archives to B2 with Fireball and Archiware P5
Archiware P5, Fireball, and Backblaze B2 provide all the essential components of an effective backup, archive, and sync solution. With the latest version, Archiware gains deeper Fireball integration that gets your largest archives into B2 even faster.
iconik and Backblaze — The Cloud Production Solution You’ve Always Wanted
With Cantemo iconik and Backblaze B2, you can make all of your media instantly accessible within your workflows while adopting an infinitely scalable media storage solution.
Wanted: Corporate Governance & Compliance Analyst
Want to work at a company that helps customers in 156 countries around the world protect the memories they hold dear — a company that stores over 500 petabytes of customers’ photos, music, documents, and work files in a purpose-built cloud storage system? Here’s your chance. Backblaze is looking for a Corporate Governance & Compliance… Continue reading Wanted: Corporate Governance & Compliance Analyst
Backblaze Cloud Backup Release 5.4
We’re releasing an update today for Backblaze Cloud Backup, version 5.4! This is a smaller release, but it does provide some bug fixes and adds in some building blocks for future releases. What’s New: Windows Changed Sign-in flow for the Backblaze Downloader and Inherit Backup State Minor bug fixes Mac Support for Dark Mode Mojave… Continue reading Backblaze Cloud Backup Release 5.4
Backblaze and macOS 10.14 Mojave
Last week, Apple released macOS 10.14 “Mojave.” Many Backblaze users experienced a less-than-ideal update experience. We wanted to take a moment to summarize what happened, how to fix the issue, and what we’re doing to avoid this in the future. If you’re updating or have updated to Mojave, please make sure you are running the… Continue reading Backblaze and macOS 10.14 Mojave
Help Wanted: Data Center Technician
Want to work at a company that helps customers in 156 countries around the world protect the memories they hold dear — a company that stores over 500 petabytes of customers’ photos, music, documents, and work files in a purpose-built cloud storage system? Here’s your chance. Backblaze is looking for a Data Center Technician! Company… Continue reading Help Wanted: Data Center Technician
Backing Up for Small Businesses
All businesses need a solid backup plan to prevent interruptions in operations or loss of valuable data. Here’s our guide for SMBs on how to develop an effective and economical backup plan.
Backblaze and Cloudflare Partner to Provide Free Data Transfer
Today we are announcing that beginning immediately, Backblaze B2 customers will be able to download data stored in B2 to Cloudflare for zero transfer fees. This means that customers can save up to 75% on storage versus Amazon S3 to store their content in the cloud and deliver it worldwide.
Welcome Ebony — Data Center Tech
One of the positions that we’re continually hiring for at Backblaze is for Data Center Technician. As we store more and more data, we need to make sure that all of our physical drives and servers are running smoothly, and that’s what the techs do on a daily basis. The newest addition to that team… Continue reading Welcome Ebony — Data Center Tech
Securely Managing Your Digital Media (SD, CF, SSD, and Beyond)
This is the second in our post exchange series with Lensrentals.com. Zach Sutton and Ryan Hill discuss best practices for securely managing the digital media you use in your cameras.
Backblaze B2 API Version 2 Beta is Now Open
Version 2 of the Backblaze B2 API brings a number of enhancements. While existing applications using version 1 of the API will continue to function as before with no changes required, we encourage developers to try out the version 2 beta and submit comments to us.
The Maltese MacBook
At Backblaze, we like to take a slightly different direction on the day of Apple’s fall announcements and hoopla. This year we’re presenting a tale about backing up in the style of American hardboiled detective fiction entitled, “The Maltese MacBook.”
Moving Tape Content to Backblaze Fireball with Canister
Hedge has created Canister for Backblaze Fireball, a frictionless solution that is by far the easiest way to migrate LTO tape archives to B2 Cloud Storage. Once in B2, the content is easily accessible and ready to pull into new content creation workflows.
Welcome Athrea — Jr. Support Technician
As Backblaze grows, one of the departments that grows right along with it is our support team! We do all of our support in-house from our headquarters and as we get more and more customers, the number of tickets that we receive daily also increases. To help us with those tickets, we have a brand… Continue reading Welcome Athrea — Jr. Support Technician
Welcome Cameron — Senior DevOps Engineer
Backblaze continues to grow and our operations team is growing right along with it. The latest person to join our operations team is Cameron, our Senior DevOps Engineer. Lets learn a bit more about Cameron shall we? What is your Backblaze Title? Senior DevOps Engineer. Where are you originally from? Hayward, CA. What attracted your… Continue reading Welcome Cameron — Senior DevOps Engineer