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
Year: 2018
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
Wanted: Senior Data Analyst
As the second hire in the nascent business analytics team at Backblaze, you will have broad responsibilities and impact. You will partner closely with Marketing, Sales, Finance and Operations on a wide variety of cross-functional projects – influencing product decisions, forecasting growth and improving operational efficiency. You are comfortable working both independently and in a… Continue reading Wanted: Senior Data Analyst
How to Leverage Your Amazon S3 Experience to Code the Backblaze B2 API
In a guest post, John Matze, founder of BridgeSTOR, outlines the differences for application developers between S3 and B2 APIs, and concludes that adding B2 support is not a major job.
Creating a Media Archive Solution with Backblaze B2 and Archiware P5
In a guest post, Marc N. Batschkus of Archiware outlines seven ways to save time, money, and gain peace of mind with an archive solution that combines Backblaze B2 and Archiware P5.
cPanel Backup to B2 Cloud Storage
Anyone who’s managed a business or personal website should be familiar with cPanel and apps to back up website data. We take a look at cPanel backup apps and other ways to keep your website data safely backed up.
The B2 Developers’ Community
It’s been three years since the launch of Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage and the B2 developer community is strong and growing. In this post we survey what developers are doing with B2 and some of the many tools and resources available to developers.
Help Wanted: Senior Staff Accountant
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? Well here’s your chance. Backblaze is looking for a Senior Staff Accountant! Company… Continue reading Help Wanted: Senior Staff Accountant
What To Do When You Get a B2 503 (or 500) Server Error
If you get a 503 or 500 server error it does not mean that the B2 service is down. It simply means that B2 is functioning as designed. Let’s look at the process.
Backing Up FreeNAS and TrueNAS to Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
FreeNAS and TrueNAS now include direct support of Backblaze B2, which enables easy backing up of data to the B2 Cloud. Here’s how to get started using B2 with FreeNAS or TrueNAS.
Access Issues on Mobile Apps
Some users may experience access issues on our mobile apps until around September 20, 2018. We are sorry for any trouble this may cause and recommend using our mobile website to view and restore files in the meantime. What’s Happening: As part of a large infrastructure project, we are working on the underlying code in… Continue reading Access Issues on Mobile Apps
Minio as an S3 Gateway for Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
If you’re using an Amazon S3-compatible integration, or just want to try out Backblaze B2 using your existing knowledge of S3 APIs and commands, then Minio can be a quick solution to taking advantage of the lower cost of Backblaze’s B2 cloud storage.
Welcome Skip — Director of Product Marketing, B2 Media and Entertainment
Backblaze continues to grow, and B2 Cloud Storage is growing rapidly right along with it. One area where B2 excels is offering simple, low-cost storage for media and entertainment companies. To help foster those relationships, we’ve brought on Skip to help steward the M&E side of B2 Cloud Storage. Lets learn a bit more about… Continue reading Welcome Skip — Director of Product Marketing, B2 Media and Entertainment
Protecting Your Data From Camera to Archive
In this guest post from our friends at Lensrentals.com, Ryan Hill and Zach Sutton outline how to protect valuable data during the entire digital media workflow.
Design Thinking: B2 APIs (& The Hidden Costs of S3 Compatibility)
We’re often asked why Backblaze didn’t implement S3-compatible APIs for our B2 Cloud Storage. Here are the reasons why we believe our approach has advantages over Amazon’s APIs and enables us to offer our cloud services at lower cost than our competitors.
Welcome John — CFO/COO
Backblaze and most U.S. companies are incorporated in Delaware, which requires assigning a President and Secretary. As good practice, and also typically required to conduct business in other states, companies also assign a Chief Financial Officer (CFO). When we started Backblaze over a decade ago, we listed Brian Wilson (co-founder and CTO) as the CFO.… Continue reading Welcome John — CFO/COO
Welcome Vanna — Office Administrator
Backblaze is growing quickly and we need good folks to help keep this well-oiled machine well oiled! The role of an office administrator is one of the most important in the company. If things start falling apart everyone feels it, and we needed a new office administrator to take over the reins after our previous… Continue reading Welcome Vanna — Office Administrator
What’s New In B2: Application Keys + Java SDK
It’s been a few months since our last “What’s New In B2” blog post, so we wanted to highlight the latest B2 developments, which include new application keys, our Java SDK, and B2 compute partnerships with Packet and ServerCentral.