Last week Backblaze made the exciting announcement that through partnerships with Packet and ServerCentral, cloud computing is available to Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage customers. If you’re not familiar with cloud computing, here is a quick introduction.
Year: 2018
Welcome Daren — Data Center Technician
The data center team continues to expand and the latest person to join the team is Daren! He’s very well versed with our infrastructure and is a welcome addition to the caregivers for our ever-growing fleet! What is your Backblaze Title? Data Center Technician. Where are you originally from? Fair Oaks, CA. What attracted you… Continue reading Welcome Daren — Data Center Technician
American Public Television Embraces the Cloud — And the Future
American Public Television was like many organizations that have been around for a while. They were entrenched using an older technology — in their case, tape storage and distribution — that once met their needs but was limiting their productivity and preventing them from effectively collaborating with their many media partners. APT’s VP of Technology knew that he needed to move into the future and embrace cloud storage to keep APT ahead of the game.
Backblaze Announces B2 Compute Partnerships
Today we’re announcing that compute is now available for B2 Cloud Storage customers through our partnerships with Packet and ServerCentral. These partnerships enable B2 customers to use compute, give our compute partners’ customers access to cloud storage, and introduce new customers to industry-leading storage and compute — all with high-performance, low-latency, and low-cost.
Backblaze’s New Cloud Storage Offering
Why pay less for the same service? We’ve spent the last month making changes to Backblaze B2. We’ve reduced the B2 Download Prices in Half, expanded on our Snapshot USB Restore program by offering refunds if the hard drives are shipped back to us, and have built out our Backblaze Fireball program into a self-service… Continue reading Backblaze’s New Cloud Storage Offering
World Backup Day 2018: Backing Up The World
March 31 is World Backup Day. It’s a good day to remember to back up all your data. The map above shows all the countries of the world where Backblaze customers have peace-of-mind knowing their data is safe.
Introducing Backblaze’s Rapid Ingest Service: B2 Fireball
Backblaze’s rapid ingest service, Fireball, graduates out of public beta. Our device holds 70 terabytes of customer data and is perfect for migrating large data sets to Backblaze’s B2 Cloud Storage.
Welcome Billy – Senior Systems Administrator
The data center keeps growing, with well over 500 Petabytes of data under management we needed more systems administrators to help us keep track of all the systems as our operation expands. Our latest systems administrator is Billy! Let’s learn a bit more about him shall we? What is your Backblaze Title? Sr. Systems Administrator… Continue reading Welcome Billy – Senior Systems Administrator
Welcome Jacob – Data Center Technician
With over 500 Petabytes of data under management we need more people keeping the drives spinning in our data center. We’re constantly hiring Systems Administrators and Data Center Technicians, and here’s our latest one! Lets learn a bit more about Jacob, shall we? What is your Backblaze Title? Data center Technician Where are you originally… Continue reading Welcome Jacob – Data Center Technician
Welcome Nathan – Our Solutions Engineer
Backblaze is growing, and with it our need to cater to a lot of different use cases that our customers bring to us. We needed a Solutions Engineer to help out, and after a long search we’ve hired our first one! Lets learn a bit more about Nathan shall we? What is your Backblaze Title?… Continue reading Welcome Nathan – Our Solutions Engineer
Simplicity is a Feature for Cloud Backup
For Joel Wagener, Director of IT at the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), simplicity is an important feature he looks for in software applications to use in his organization. So maybe it’s not unexpected that Joel chose Backblaze for Business to back up AIBS’s staff computers. According to Joel, “It just works.”
Introducing the B2 Snapshot Return Refund Program
Today we’re pleased to introduce the cloud storage industry’s only refundable rapid data egress service, the B2 Snapshot Return Refund program. Send back the drive we sent you with your B2 Snapshot data (up to 3.5 terabytes) within 30 days and we’ll refund your Snapshot fee.
Wanted: Office Administrator
At inception, Backblaze was a consumer company. Thousands upon thousands of individuals came to our website and gave us $5/mo to keep their data safe. But, we didn’t sell business solutions. It took us years before we had a sales team. In the last couple of years, we’ve released products that businesses of all sizes… Continue reading Wanted: Office Administrator
Welcome Michele — Our HR Coordinator
Backblaze is growing rapidly and as we have more and more job listings coming online and more employees to corral, we needed another member on our Human Resources team! Enter Michele, who is joining the HR folks to help recruit, onboard, and expand our HR organization. Lets learn a bit more about Michele shall we?… Continue reading Welcome Michele — Our HR Coordinator
Wanted: Senior Java Engineer
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 Java Engineer! Company… Continue reading Wanted: Senior Java Engineer
Needed: Software Engineering Director
Company Description: Founded in 2007, Backblaze started with a mission to make backup software elegant and provide complete peace of mind. Over the course of almost a decade, we have become a pioneer in robust, scalable low cost cloud backup. Recently, we launched B2 – robust and reliable object storage at just $0.005/gb/mo. We offer… Continue reading Needed: Software Engineering Director
Your Hard Drive Crashed — Get Working Again Fast with Backblaze
Your hard drive crashed and you’re without the files you need for a meeting. Fortunately, you’re a Backblaze customer, so your files are safe in the cloud. Here’s how Backblaze helps you get back to work as quickly as possible.
HDD vs SSD: What Does the Future for Storage Hold? — Part 2
In Part 2 of our series on HDDS and SSDs, we take a deeper look at the differences between HDDs and SSDs, how both HDD and SSD technologies are evolving (and what else is on the horizon), and how Backblaze takes advantage of SSDs in our operations and data centers.