If you’re a user of Time Machine, you could be vulnerable if something happens to the external drive you’re using for backups. One way to protect yourself is to use multiple backup drives with Time Machine. Here’s how.
Five Best Practices to Securely Preserve Your Video, Photo, and Other Data
Protecting your digital video, photo, or audio data might sound challenging, but following just a handful of guidelines makes it easy. We’re sharing our five best practices for maintaining the safety of your media data.
Welcome Mikael: Data Center Tech
As we cross 750 petabytes and march towards 800, we need more people in the data center helping us keep our over 100,000 hard drives spinning! To help us with that, Mikael came aboard! Let’s learn a bit more about Mikael, shall we?
Welcome Brad: Junior Support Technician
As Backblaze continues to grow, we need great people to take care of our customers’ questions and make sure they have a good experience with our service. The latest person to join our support team is Brad. Let’s learn a bit more about Brad, shall we?
Cloud-Based Tools and AI Make Workflows More Powerful and Increase Content Value
In Part Two of Modern Storage Workflows in the Age of Cloud, we show how combining cloud-base tools with the power of artificial intelligence can make your workflows more powerful and your content more valuable.
An Inside Look at the Backblaze Storage Pod Museum
Nearly 10 years after the first Storage Pod altered the storage landscape it continues to stimulate new approaches to data center storage. Let’s take a tour through the years of Storage Pod innovation.
Subscription Updates for Computer Backup
Since 2008, we have offered unlimited Computer Backup for $5 per month. Today, we are announcing that our monthly plan will increase by one dollar, from $5 to $6. Other plans change similarly.
B2 on Your Desktop — Cloud Storage Made Easy
These applications let you mount B2 on your desktop, use it as if it were a local drive, and drag and drop files to and from B2 cloud storage. What could be easier?
Save Data Directly to Backblaze B2 With Backblaze Cloud Backup 6.0
Customers have often told us that they’d love a way to save data directly from their Backblaze Computer Backup account to B2 Cloud Storage. We’re happy to announce that with the 6.0 update, users can now save Snapshots directly to B2 from their backup account and retain the Snapshots for as long as they wish.
Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2018
We look at the hard drive failure rates for the data drive models in operation in our data centers in 2018 (now totaling over 750 petabytes and 100,000 drives). In addition, we’ll see how the new hard drive models we added during the year did, including our 12 TB HGST and 14 TB Toshiba drives.
Backblaze Cloud Backup v6.0: Larger Longer Faster Better
This release for consumers and businesses brings a lot of new functionality to Backblaze Cloud Backup: Restore by Mail drives that are twice the size, archiving with Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, up to 50% faster backups, and a network blocklist feature to help avoid data caps. All that plus more efficient and performant Mac and Windows applications along with mobile enhancements and SSO support with Google.
Welcome Janet: Sr. Product Marketing Manager
As the Backblaze team grows, our marketing team is growing with it. To help expand our Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage business we needed some industry veterans, and we were lucky when Janet came on board! Lets learn a bit more about Janet shall we? What is your Backblaze Title? Senior Product Marketing Manager, B2 Media… Continue reading Welcome Janet: Sr. Product Marketing Manager
How We Optimized Storage and Performance of Apache Cassandra at Backblaze
Conventional wisdom for Apache’s high-performance, scalable database has been to avoid wide partitions for risk of impacting database performance and storage limitations. Backblaze’s work with a Cassandra consultant shows how version 3.11 can dramatically decrease garbage collection, lower latencies, and require nearly 30% less space when using wide partitions versus version 2.2.
Wanted: Senior Android Developer
You will lead the development of Backblaze’s Android application. Your responsibilities will include designing and implementing features as well as fixing bugs in a timely manner within project constraints. There are significant enhancements in the works, and you’ll be a part of making them happen. Qualifications 10+ years of overall experience in software programming with… Continue reading Wanted: Senior Android Developer
Best of the Blog 2018
2018 was a great year for Backblaze. We’re starting off the year with a look back at what we believe are the top blog posts of 2018.
Storage Pod Dominoes
As we’re lightening things up in time for the holidays, we decided to share this little video. We figured it could be a fun little holiday gift.
2018 in the Rear View Mirror
Thank you to all of our customers and friends; you’ve made 2018 a great year for Backblaze. Here’s a quick look at what we’ve been up to in the past year.
Bootstrapping to $30 Million ARR
Backblaze will be celebrating its 12th year in business this coming April 20th. We’ve grown steadily over the years, and this year have reached $30 million ARR (annual recurring revenue). In a series of posts and in a BrightTALK Founders Spotlight interview, our CEO, Gleb Budman, shares his behind-the-scenes insight into what it’s really like to found a tech startup.