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Year: 2025

Preview Bucket Access Logs for Greater Visibility and Control

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Now in private preview, Bucket Access Logs let you see detailed records of operations performed against objects in a bucket.

Published April 24, 2025
Categorized as Cloud Storage, Featured-Cloud Storage Tagged B2Cloud

Analyzing Performance at Exabyte Scale

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Before you can improve performance, you have to know where to look.

Published April 23, 2025
Categorized as Cloud Storage, Featured-Cloud Storage, Tech Lab Tagged B2Cloud

Updated Backblaze Password Requirements

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We’re updating our password minimums to 15 characters.

Published April 21, 2025
Categorized as Backblaze Bits Tagged B2Cloud

AI 101: How AI and Ransomware Are Reshaping Cybersecurity

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AI is changing the ransomware landscape, empowering both cybercriminals with sophisticated tools and cybersecurity defenders with advanced protection. Today, let’s talk about the high-stakes battle for data security.

Published April 17, 2025
Categorized as Cloud Storage, Featured, Featured-Cloud Storage, Ransomware Tagged AI/ML, B2Cloud

NAS RAID Levels Explained: RAID Types and Benefits

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Explore different RAID types and their benefits, and learn how to choose the right RAID level for your NAS setup to securely store your data.

Published April 11, 2025
Categorized as Cloud Storage, Featured, NAS Tagged B2Cloud

What Powers the Performance of Backblaze

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Senior Vice President of Engineering Tina Cessna kicks off a series of articles discussing how her team is continually improving our exabyte-scale platform.

Published April 8, 2025
Categorized as Cloud Storage, Featured, Featured-Cloud Storage, Tech Lab, Uncategorized Tagged B2Cloud

Cloud Egress Fees: What They Are And How To Reduce Them

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Traditional cloud storage pricing models come with complexity—by which we mean fees. Today, let’s talk about what egress fees are and where they fit into your cloud storage strategy.

Published April 3, 2025
Categorized as CDN, Cloud Storage, Featured, Partner News Tagged B2Cloud

Escaping Egress: Hidden Cloud Fees Every CFO Should Know

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Traditional cloud storage billing has included too many fees and too little transparency. Read why CFO Marc Suidan advocates that controlling cloud storage fees like egress should be top of mind.

Published April 2, 2025
Categorized as Cloud Storage, Featured, Featured-Cloud Storage Tagged B2Cloud, Cloud Storage Fees, Egress

Disaster Recovery 101: Improving RTO and RPO Goals with the Cloud

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Setting SMART RTO and RPO goals is crucial for disaster recovery. Read more to understand what these terms mean and how to use them.

Published March 25, 2025
Categorized as Cloud Storage, Featured, Featured-Cloud Storage Tagged B2Cloud, Disaster recovery/DRaaS

DR 101: Assembling Your Incident Response Team

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Assembling a well-defined incident response team with clear roles, redundancy, and strong communication is crucial for an effective disaster recovery strategy, ensuring swift action and minimizing downtime.

Published March 20, 2025
Categorized as Cloud Storage, Featured, Featured-Cloud Storage Tagged B2Cloud, Disaster recovery/DRaaS

Backblaze and CHESA: Doubling Down on a Premier Media Workflow Partnership

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Backblaze and CHESA are a powerful partnership for media teams. Learn how they’re doubling down on their partnership to bring even more value to customers like the Philadelphia Eagles.

Published March 17, 2025
Categorized as Cloud Storage, Featured, Featured-Cloud Storage, Media Workflow, Partner News Tagged B2Cloud

Streaming Media with Backblaze B2: A Data Storage Guide

Learn how to turn your Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage into a streaming media hub. Find essential tools and tips for hosting audio and video files efficiently.

Published March 13, 2025
Categorized as Cloud Storage, Tech Lab, Technology Tagged B2Cloud

Network Stats: Launching the CA-East Region in Canada

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Read Backblaze Technical Lead Network Engineer Brent Nowak’s account of building the latest Backblaze data center in Canada.

Published March 6, 2025
Categorized as Cloud Storage, Featured, Featured-Cloud Storage Tagged B2Cloud

Experimenting with DeepSeek, Backblaze B2, and Drive Stats

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Read about how to build a chatbot using Backblaze, DeepSeek, and the Drive Stats dataset.

Published March 4, 2025
Categorized as Cloud Storage, Featured, Featured-Cloud Storage, Tech Lab Tagged AI/ML, B2Cloud

Disaster Recovery 101: Backup vs. Replication

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When you’re building a disaster recovery strategy, it’s crucial to know that there’s a difference between replication and backups. Here’s what you need to know.

Published February 25, 2025
Categorized as Cloud Storage, Featured, Featured-Cloud Storage, Ransomware, Server Backup Tagged B2Cloud, Disaster recovery/DRaaS

Backblaze + Kandji: Native Mac Backup with Integrated Endpoint Management 

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Backblaze and Kandji save IT teams time, money, and headaches with Mac-native tools.

Published February 20, 2025
Categorized as Backing Up, Featured, Featured-Backing Up, Mac Love Tagged BusinessBackup

A Playbook for Migrating Your Media to a MAM System

Learn how migrating data to a media asset manager (MAM) backed up to cloud storage can help media professionals find and organize content to enhance productivity.

Published February 19, 2025
Categorized as Cloud Storage, Media Workflow Tagged B2Cloud, DAM, M&E, MAM, NAB

Exabyte Scale Hard Drive Investments

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Read what Chris Opat, Senior Vice President of Cloud Operations, has to say about the strategy of drive purchasing at the scale of enterprise.

Published February 13, 2025
Categorized as Cloud Storage, Featured, Featured-Cloud Storage Tagged B2Cloud

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