Learn how SIMMER.io, a community site for game developers to share content, set up a multi-cloud solution with Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage and Cloudflare to reduce egress fees to $0.
On-prem to Cloud, Faster: Meet Our Newest Fireball
Today, the Backblaze Fireball service is getting bigger and faster—read on for more on the improved pathways to the Backblaze Storage Cloud.
Finding a 1Up When Free Cloud Credits Run Out
Read this post when your free cloud credits run out. A big bill might be looming, but there are paths to escape the long-term pain.
Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2020
This post looks at the lifetime hard drive failure rates of the data drive models in operation in our data centers in 2020.
Q&A: Developing for the Data Transfer Project at Facebook
Read this Q&A with Umar Mustafa, Facebook Partner Engineer, about developing Facebook’s data portability feature for Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage using open-source code from the Data Transfer Project.
New Year, New Goals: Six Backup and Cloud Storage Tips for 2021
Avoid any potential data loss challenges in 2021 by adding these six backup and cloud storage tips to your plans for the year.
2020 in the Rearview
2020 has been a year with its fair share of challenges—we’d like to thank our community for staying connected throughout these unprecedented times.
The 2020 Top Ten(s)
Take a look back at the top 10 blog posts—and a few top contenders—we published in 2020.
Development Roadmap: Power Up Apps With Go Programming Language and Cloud Storage
Learn more about using Go in your development environment with this primer for connecting an app to cloud storage.
Backblaze Holiday Gift Guide 2020
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.
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.