As the Backblaze team and products continue to expand we found that we needed more engineers to help us keep up with existing systems and build out news ones (and we’re always hiring, by the way). To help us, we hired Fabian to join our team as a senior java engineer. Let’s learn a bit… Continue reading Welcome Fabian — Senior Java Engineer
Year: 2019
Announcing Our First European Data Center
We have big news. Starting today, our first European data center, in Amsterdam, is open and accepting customer data!
Heard Around Backblaze — August 2019
Here’s the August installment of what we’re talking about at lunchtime, discussing over Slack, debating in the hallways, and paying attention to at Backblaze.
Welcome Kim — Senior Engineering Manager
Joining to help manage our amazing, ever-growing team of engineers is Kim. Kim’s background with companies like Microsoft and Salesforce.com makes her a great addition to the team. Let’s learn a little more about Kim, shall we?
Interview With Filmmaker Laura D’Antoni
We met filmmaker Laura D’Antoni when we worked with her on a number of films for Backblaze. We were intrigued by her career as a director, editor, and filmmaker and thought our readers would be interested in getting to know her and her work better.
B2 Copy File is Now Public
At the beginning of summer, we put B2 Copy File APIs into beta. We’re pleased to announce that they are now public and ready to use (and we even included a few feature). Here’s the lowdown on how developers can use these new capabilities with B2 Cloud Storage.
Wanted: Graphic Designer
We’re looking for a graphic designer who understands and loves focusing on the customer. As importantly, we’re looking for someone that wants to be on a team that shows genuine care for each other. Put more plainly, we’re looking for a teammate.
Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2019
This review looks at the Q2 2019 and lifetime hard drive failure rates of the data drive models currently in operation in our data centers.
Interviews From Storage Pod Pickup Day
Why would people make the long trek to our data center in Sacramento just to get a free Storage Pod? We asked them in these video interviews.
Creating Great Content Marketing
Content marketing is the practice of creating, publishing, and sharing content with the goal of building the reputation and visibility of your brand. That might sound easy, but creating great content marketing takes real thinking about who you are and why you do what you do.
Happy Sysadmin Day
Today is the 20th annual Sysadmin Day! We honor sysadmins every day at Backblaze and even want to hire more!
Welcome Nicole — Marketing Associate
As our company grows in customers, team members, and projects we find ourselves hiring like mad to keep up. When I created the job description for our first-ever marketing associate, one of the responsibilities was: Miscellaneous — our favorite category!
Reading, Writing, and Backing Up — Are You Ready to Go Back to School?
It’s almost time to start or go back to school. Remember to back up all your school work to protect it from accidental or other loss.
Welcome Vincent — Business Development Representative
Backblaze business backup continues to grow and so does the department. Vincent has recently joined the team to help bring new clients to Backblaze! Let’s learn a little more about Vincent, shall we?
Planned Maintenance (Wednesday July 17th 2-4pm Pacific)
We will be having a planned maintenance period today 2:00pm -4:00pm Pacific Time.
More From Our Annual Survey: Choosing the Best Cloud for Backing Up
Our annual survey showed that more people are using the cloud for backup. But are they choosing the best kind of cloud for backing up?
The Shocking Truth — Managing for Hard Drive Failure and Data Corruption
All hard drives are subject to mechanical and electronic failure as well as silent corruption of your stored data, also known as bit rot. We look at the causes of hard drive data loss and best practices for keeping your data intact.
Welcome Mike — Senior Systems Administrator
The data center keeps growing, with well over 500 petabytes of data under management, so we need more systems administrators to help us keep track of all the systems as our operation expands. Our latest systems administrator is Mike!