How much data do photographers and videographers typically store? Jim, our Director of Marketing Operations, recently asked this question of his circle of media amateurs and professionals. We’re inviting our readers to answer this question, as well.
Buying a Hard Drive this Holiday Season? These Tips Will Help
If you’re buying a hard drive during the holidays, here are some tips from Backblaze to help you find the right drive at the right price.
MegaBot vs Backblaze
How could we resist letting the MegaBot Eagle Prime help us dispose of our old Storage Pod chassis?
Ever Wish You Had a Backup Brain? The Mars Rover Has One
A recent glitch in its main computer required the Curiosity Rover team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to switch to another computer in the rover while they worked to resolve the problems with its main computer. As @MarsCuriosity tweeted from the surface of the red planet, “Redundant systems: don’t leave Earth without them.”
Modern Storage Workflows in the Age of Cloud
No matter what type of storage you’re considering for creative production, your guiding principle should be to choose the storage with the best performance and cost advantages for each workflow step.
Backblaze’s Custom Data Center PDU
When our data center site manager realized that a few strategic changes in a key component could dramatically improve efficiency in our Phoenix data center, he worked with our IT vendor to make it happen.
New for Business Backup: Single Sign-On (SSO)
Single Sign-On (SSO) for Groups has been one of our most requested features. We’re happy to announce that SSO via G Suite is available immediately at no charge for all Groups.
Credential Stuffing Attacks: What They Are and How to Protect Yourself
Over 500 million login credentials have been exposed due to breaches of high-traffic websites including Adobe, Coachella, Dropbox, LinkedIn, Ticketfly, and Yahoo. We present three simple tactics you can use to protect yourself from hackers exploiting these breaches in credential stuffing attacks.
Stories of Camera and Data Catastrophes
In a post that’s suitable for story telling around a campfire at the lake, Zach Sutton of Lensrentals.com spins scary tales of the challenges encountered by their photo and video rental gear while out in the world, including dust, salt water, forgotten data, and solar eclipses. Don’t read it alone.
Migrating from CrashPlan: Arq and B2
The author of Arq Backup, Stefan Reitshamer, explains how Arq plus B2 Cloud Storage provide a cost effective and efficient alternative to CrashPlan Home.
Wanted: Inside Sales Account Executive
Job Description Backblaze is looking for an Inside Sales Account Executive to join our Backblaze for Business sales team. This is an important role that will help determine the growth path of the company. Finding exceptional individuals who love working in a dynamic and challenging environment is our highest priority. We are searching for people… Continue reading Wanted: Inside Sales Account Executive
An Invitation for CrashPlan Customers: Try Backblaze
We hope that CrashPlan Home customers who are reaching the end of service on October 22 will consider adopting Backblaze for their backup service.
Hard Drive Stats for Q3 2018: Less is More
As of September 30, 2018 Backblaze had 99,636 spinning hard drives in our data centers, which now includes a large number of 12 TB drives. Here’s our latest report on how they’re all doing, and a brief look at the direction we’ll be heading in the future.
Welcome Cheryl — Data Center Tech
Our data center team continues to grow at a rapid pace as we’re now storing way over 600 petabytes of data! The latest addition to the team is Cheryl, who joins our team as a datacenter technician! Lets learn a bit more about Cheryl, shall we? What is your Backblaze title? Data Center Technician. Where… Continue reading Welcome Cheryl — Data Center Tech
Move Even Your Largest Archives to B2 with Fireball and Archiware P5
Archiware P5, Fireball, and Backblaze B2 provide all the essential components of an effective backup, archive, and sync solution. With the latest version, Archiware gains deeper Fireball integration that gets your largest archives into B2 even faster.
iconik and Backblaze — The Cloud Production Solution You’ve Always Wanted
With Cantemo iconik and Backblaze B2, you can make all of your media instantly accessible within your workflows while adopting an infinitely scalable media storage solution.
Wanted: Corporate Governance & Compliance Analyst
Want to work at a company that helps customers in 156 countries around the world protect the memories they hold dear — a company that stores over 500 petabytes of customers’ photos, music, documents, and work files in a purpose-built cloud storage system? Here’s your chance. Backblaze is looking for a Corporate Governance & Compliance… Continue reading Wanted: Corporate Governance & Compliance Analyst
Backblaze Cloud Backup Release 5.4
We’re releasing an update today for Backblaze Cloud Backup, version 5.4! This is a smaller release, but it does provide some bug fixes and adds in some building blocks for future releases. What’s New: Windows Changed Sign-in flow for the Backblaze Downloader and Inherit Backup State Minor bug fixes Mac Support for Dark Mode Mojave… Continue reading Backblaze Cloud Backup Release 5.4