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Hot Sauce Drone Delivery: Backblaze at SpiceWorld 2019
Backblaze is coming in hot to Austin, Texas for SpiceWorld 2019, and hundreds of bottles of Backblaze brand hot sauce are just the beginning. If you’re attending, we hope you’ll visit us.
Welcome, Lisa — Physical Media Technician
As Backblaze continues to grow, so does our physical media support team. Our latest physical media technician to join the team is Lisa. She will be helping to fulfill our customers’ needs when it comes to restores and hard drive returns.
Raising Prices is Hard
Every company is faced with the decision to raise prices at some point. Here’s an inside look at the process behind a recent price raise at Backblaze, including the why, how, and when.
Stranger in a Tech Land
Our new Marketing Associate, Nicole, describes her fears, expectations, and what it’s really like to work for her first Silicon Valley tech company.
A Toast to Our Partners in Europe at IBC
Celebrate with us in Amsterdam at IBC, the premier European conference and expo for media and entertainment technology, as we toast our European partners and our new data center that just opened in Amsterdam.
Making the Data Center Choice (the Work Has Just Begun)
We select our European data center.
The Logistics of Finding the Right Data Center: The Great European (Non) Vacation
Join Backblaze on a European road trip to visit ten data center candidates in three countries in three days.
Getting Ready to Go to Europe
On Tuesday August 20th, we announced the opening of our first European data center. This post is the first in our three-part series on why we wanted an EU data center and how we selected one.
Welcome Fabian — Senior Java Engineer
As the Backblaze team and products continue to expand we found that we needed more engineers to help us keep up with existing systems and build out news ones (and we’re always hiring, by the way). To help us, we hired Fabian to join our team as a senior java engineer. Let’s learn a bit… Continue reading Welcome Fabian — Senior Java Engineer
Announcing Our First European Data Center
We have big news. Starting today, our first European data center, in Amsterdam, is open and accepting customer data!
Heard Around Backblaze — August 2019
Here’s the August installment of what we’re talking about at lunchtime, discussing over Slack, debating in the hallways, and paying attention to at Backblaze.
Welcome Kim — Senior Engineering Manager
Joining to help manage our amazing, ever-growing team of engineers is Kim. Kim’s background with companies like Microsoft and Salesforce.com makes her a great addition to the team. Let’s learn a little more about Kim, shall we?
Interview With Filmmaker Laura D’Antoni
We met filmmaker Laura D’Antoni when we worked with her on a number of films for Backblaze. We were intrigued by her career as a director, editor, and filmmaker and thought our readers would be interested in getting to know her and her work better.
B2 Copy File is Now Public
At the beginning of summer, we put B2 Copy File APIs into beta. We’re pleased to announce that they are now public and ready to use (and we even included a few feature). Here’s the lowdown on how developers can use these new capabilities with B2 Cloud Storage.
Wanted: Graphic Designer
We’re looking for a graphic designer who understands and loves focusing on the customer. As importantly, we’re looking for someone that wants to be on a team that shows genuine care for each other. Put more plainly, we’re looking for a teammate.
Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2019
This review looks at the Q2 2019 and lifetime hard drive failure rates of the data drive models currently in operation in our data centers.
Interviews From Storage Pod Pickup Day
Why would people make the long trek to our data center in Sacramento just to get a free Storage Pod? We asked them in these video interviews.