COVID-19 is rightfully filling the news cycle, but if you’re coming to our blog, you’re probably looking for some helpful information about backing up or entrepreneurship. Considering these novel circumstances and our tradition of transparency, we’re sharing the ways in which we’re thinking about how to best communicate with our customers.
Year: 2020
TV Insider Tips to Upscale Your Next Video Conference
COVID-19 is rightfully filling the news cycle, but if you’re coming to our blog, you’re probably looking for some helpful information about backing up or entrepreneurship. In this post, we’re sharing our top tips from TV studio insiders and film production professionals for setting up great video conferencing.
Backblaze Computer Backup Release 7.0.1
COVID-19 is rightfully dominating the news right now, but our team is still focused on providing the best cloud backup service for you. Read on to learn what they’ve delivered in version 7.0.1!
An April 1st Post
COVID-19 is rightfully filling the news cycle, so we decided not to add to the confusion with some April Fools shenanigans. But, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t enjoy some of our previous foolishness.
A Message to our Community
A message about how Backblaze is adjusting to the global challenge of COVID-19 by looking out for the wellbeing of our coworkers, families, and communities.
Exabyte Unlocked
With the impact of coronavirus on all of our lives, it’s been a struggle to find pieces of good news. But we wanted to take a break from the usual programming and share a milestone we’re excited about, one that’s more than 12 years in the making.
Defining an Exabyte
How much is an exabyte, really?
Allow Us to Introduce Ourselves
COVID-19 is rightfully filling the news cycle, but if you’re coming to our blog, you’re probably looking for education or distraction. If that describes you, here’s an informative post sharing 10 blog entries that we assign to new hires to read to get know what we stand for.
Supercharged Data Migration with Flexify.IO
COVID-19 is rightfully filling the news cycle, but if you’re coming to our blog, you’re probably looking for education or distraction. If that describes you, here’s an informative post about a new integration partner—Flexify.IO—and supercharged cloud-to-cloud migration.
The Speed of Collaboration: How Industrious Films Adopted Cloud Storage
We spoke to Jeff Nicosia about how he and his team at Industrious Films boost collaboration while working remotely and cut down on time wasted by sharing files with Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage.
The Geography of Big Data Maintenance: Data Warehouses, Data Lakes, and Data Swamps
Understanding what “Big Data” is and how to leverage it can make a huge difference for any business. This post explores Big Data as a concept, including what defines Data Warehouses and Data Lakes, and how to avoid Data Swamps.
Pathways to the Cloud: Six Tools for Moving Your Files
Getting started with cloud storage is easy, but uploading all of your data into your cloud storage bucket or transferring it there from another cloud service can be more difficult. We’ve gathered six of our favorite services and partnerships for transferring or migrating your data.
50 Billion Restores and Counting
50,000,000,000—that’s the number of files restored from our Computer Backup service! Read on to learn more about how we reached this milestone.
Launching a Zero-Infrastructure Media Business
Today we’re sharing a conversation we had with Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage customer Andrew Knox, who built the industry’s largest independent music licensing marketplace using cloud services.
To Buy, Or Not to Buy? CapEx Versus OpEx is the Question
Our customers often ask us about the budget implications of investing in cloud storage, versus those of an on-premises solution. In short, they’re debating whether to make a capital investment (CapEx) or committing to an operating expense (OpEx). In those post, we provide some answers.
Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2019
We look at the hard drive failure rates for the data drive models in operation in our data centers in 2019 (now totaling over 120,000 drives). In addition, we’ll see how the new hard drive models we added during the year did.
Metadata: Your File’s Hidden DNA and You
The files you use every day carry around a slew of hidden data that can be incredibly useful to you… or problematically revealing to others. But if you learn how to work with metadata, it can be very helpful in diagnosing problems with files, organizing or protecting data, and even removing information you don’t want revealed!
Drive Stats Update
Read on for a short update on our Hard Drive Stats reports.