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Year: 2025
What Powers the Performance of Backblaze
Senior Vice President of Engineering Tina Cessna kicks off a series of articles discussing how her team is continually improving our exabyte-scale platform.
Cloud Egress Fees: What They Are And How To Reduce Them
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.
Escaping Egress: Hidden Cloud Fees Every CFO Should Know
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.
Disaster Recovery 101: Improving RTO and RPO Goals with the Cloud
Setting SMART RTO and RPO goals is crucial for disaster recovery. Read more to understand what these terms mean and how to use them.
DR 101: Assembling Your Incident Response Team
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.
Backblaze and CHESA: Doubling Down on a Premier Media Workflow Partnership
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.
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.
Network Stats: Launching the CA-East Region in Canada
Read Backblaze Technical Lead Network Engineer Brent Nowak’s account of building the latest Backblaze data center in Canada.
Experimenting with DeepSeek, Backblaze B2, and Drive Stats
Read about how to build a chatbot using Backblaze, DeepSeek, and the Drive Stats dataset.
Disaster Recovery 101: Backup vs. Replication
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.
Backblaze + Kandji: Native Mac Backup with Integrated Endpoint ManagementÂ
Backblaze and Kandji save IT teams time, money, and headaches with Mac-native tools.
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.
Exabyte Scale Hard Drive Investments
Read what Chris Opat, Senior Vice President of Cloud Operations, has to say about the strategy of drive purchasing at the scale of enterprise.
Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024
The 2024 Year End Drive Stats Report is here. See the the latest annualized failure rates and data insights for the Backblaze drive fleet.
The Philadelphia Eagles Make Real-Time Content Production a Reality
Cloud-based storage technologies can help media teams create distributed, scalable workloads while maximizing budget. See how the Philadelphia Eagles used Backblaze B2 for their media workflows.
AI Reasoning Models: OpenAI o3-mini, o1-mini, and DeepSeek R1
Reasoning models: What are they? And which ones should you care about?
12 Best Practices for Disaster Recovery
Downtime after disaster can be costly. Here are twelve best practices to consider when developing and reviewing your disaster recovery plan.