We polled our team members to see what gifts they’ll be giving their family and friends this holiday season and put them together in our annual gift guide.
Churn Analysis: Go From Churning to Learning
Read how Backblaze manages the negative feedback we receive from customers and how it improves our products.
Block-level Deduplication, Compression, and Encrypted Backup With Duplicati
Read this post to learn how to use Duplicati, an open-source backup client that can securely store encrypted, incremental, compressed backups in cloud storage.
Backing Up Our Thanks
2020 has been a challenging year, but we wanted to share a few things our team is thankful for and mark the year’s silver linings.
Code and Culture: What Happens When They Clash
In this post, we’re sharing about the Backblaze Engineering team’s conversation regarding the idea of changing the terms used to describe branches in our repositories, and the effort that resulted from that discussion.
Development Simplified: CORS Support for the Backblaze S3 Compatible API
Backblaze now has CORS support for our S3 Compatible API. Read on to learn how to enable CORS rules for your Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Buckets.
Solution Roadmap: Cross-site Collaboration With the Synology NAS Toolset
Read this post to learn how to use Synology NAS together with cloud storage to grow your team’s remote collaboration capacity.
Vanguard Perspectives: Microsoft 365 to Veeam Backup to Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Read this post to learn how to configure Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 with Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage as an endpoint.
Backblaze and Big Sur: Ready When You Are!
The new operating system from Apple, MacOS 11.0 Big Sur, released on November 12, 2020 and the Backblaze Computer Backup client is “Big Sur-ready.”
Gladstone Institutes Builds a Backblaze Fireball, XXXL Edition
Read the story of how two IT engineers, one Toyota 4Runner, and a mongo storage server transferred petabytes of life-saving biomedical research data into Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage.
Supporting Efficient Cloud Workflows at THEMA
Read this post to learn how THEMA, a Canal+ Group company, used Backblaze B2 together with iconik to develop a cloud-based, resource-efficient workflow.
Rclone Power Moves for Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Learn about five advanced rclone techniques you can use with Backblaze B2 to help you on your path to storage admin mastery.
You’ve Cat to Be Kitten Me…
Did you notice anything different on our site a few weeks ago? Read this post to learn more about a website traffic experiment we ran involving cats and cloud storage—Catblaze.com.
Set Your Content Free With Fastly and Backblaze B2
Our new collaboration with Fastly offers an integrated solution that lets you store and serve rich media files seamlessly. Read this post to learn more about reducing your storage and network costs.
Announcing Facebook Photo and Video Transfers Direct to Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Facebook has integrated Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage directly as a data transfer destination. Read this post to learn more about how to transfer your Facebook images and videos to Backblaze B2.
Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2020
This review looks at the Q3 2020 and lifetime hard drive failure rates of the data drive models currently in operation in our data centers. We also share a handful of insights and observations along the way.
Not So Suite: Dealing With Google’s New 2TB Caps
If you or your team has been using G Suite to store your data, you may be looking for an unlimited data storage option. Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage provides unlimited data storage at only $5/TB per month.
Enhanced Ransomware Protection: Announcing Data Immutability With Backblaze B2 and Veeam
Backblaze B2 now supports immutability for Veeam backups, enabled by Object Lock. Read on to learn how this offers powerful ransomware protection.