If you’re using an Amazon S3-compatible integration, or just want to try out Backblaze B2 using your existing knowledge of S3 APIs and commands, then Minio can be a quick solution to taking advantage of the lower cost of Backblaze’s B2 cloud storage.
Welcome Skip — Director of Product Marketing, B2 Media and Entertainment
Backblaze continues to grow, and B2 Cloud Storage is growing rapidly right along with it. One area where B2 excels is offering simple, low-cost storage for media and entertainment companies. To help foster those relationships, we’ve brought on Skip to help steward the M&E side of B2 Cloud Storage. Lets learn a bit more about… Continue reading Welcome Skip — Director of Product Marketing, B2 Media and Entertainment
Protecting Your Data From Camera to Archive
In this guest post from our friends at Lensrentals.com, Ryan Hill and Zach Sutton outline how to protect valuable data during the entire digital media workflow.
Design Thinking: B2 APIs (& The Hidden Costs of S3 Compatibility)
We’re often asked why Backblaze didn’t implement S3-compatible APIs for our B2 Cloud Storage. Here are the reasons why we believe our approach has advantages over Amazon’s APIs and enables us to offer our cloud services at lower cost than our competitors.
Welcome John — CFO/COO
Backblaze and most U.S. companies are incorporated in Delaware, which requires assigning a President and Secretary. As good practice, and also typically required to conduct business in other states, companies also assign a Chief Financial Officer (CFO). When we started Backblaze over a decade ago, we listed Brian Wilson (co-founder and CTO) as the CFO.… Continue reading Welcome John — CFO/COO
Welcome Vanna — Office Administrator
Backblaze is growing quickly and we need good folks to help keep this well-oiled machine well oiled! The role of an office administrator is one of the most important in the company. If things start falling apart everyone feels it, and we needed a new office administrator to take over the reins after our previous… Continue reading Welcome Vanna — Office Administrator
What’s New In B2: Application Keys + Java SDK
It’s been a few months since our last “What’s New In B2” blog post, so we wanted to highlight the latest B2 developments, which include new application keys, our Java SDK, and B2 compute partnerships with Packet and ServerCentral.
Wanted: Data Center Technician — Sacramento, CA
Want to work at a company that helps customers in 156 countries around the world protect the memories they hold dear? Would you enjoy being part of a company that stores over 500 petabytes of customers’ photos, music, documents, and work files in a purpose-built cloud storage system? Well, here’s your chance. Backblaze is looking… Continue reading Wanted: Data Center Technician — Sacramento, CA
Welcome Summer Intern: Nelly
We’ve had a great crop of interns this summer and the last one to join us was Nelly! She joins me in the marketing department and helped with a lot of my podcasting projects. One of her tasks over the three weeks that she was with us was to listen to almost 200 podcasts to… Continue reading Welcome Summer Intern: Nelly
Welcome Tina — Director of Engineering
Backblaze is getting bigger, and our engineering team is no exception! We’ve brought on a lot of great talent over the last few months, and we needed someone to make sure that team was running smoothly and efficiently. To make sure that our engineers have the tools they need and to keep all the projects… Continue reading Welcome Tina — Director of Engineering
Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2018
As of June 30, 2018 we had 100,254 spinning hard drives in Backblaze’s data centers. Of that number, there were 1,989 boot drives and 98,265 data drives. This review looks at the quarterly and lifetime statistics for the data drive models in operation in our data centers. We’ll also take another look at comparing enterprise… Continue reading Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2018
Backblaze Cloud Backup Release 5.3 & EOL Announcements
Backblaze announces an update to Backblaze Online Backup: Version 5.3! This is a smaller release, but does improve stability, security, and how Backblaze handles systems without a lot of RAM. This release also signals the beginning of the end of our support for a few older operating systems: Mac OS X 10.5, Mac OS X… Continue reading Backblaze Cloud Backup Release 5.3 & EOL Announcements
Backblaze Durability Calculates at 99.999999999% — And Why It Doesn’t Matter
All cloud storage vendors talk about data durability, but don’t tell you how they calculate what they claim. Until now. In this post, we detail the inputs and calculations for Backblaze B2’s 11 nines of durability.
Wanted: Product Marketing Manager
This position has been updated on 09/05/2018 Backblaze’s Product Marketing Manager for Business Backup is an essential member of our Marketing team, reporting to the VP of Marketing. The best PMM for Backblaze is borderline-obsessed with understanding the modern customer’s journey on a cellular level. The role requires an understanding of the challenges modern businesses… Continue reading Wanted: Product Marketing Manager
Five Cool Multi-cloud Backup Solutions You Should Consider
Keeping a copy of your data in the public cloud is a great idea and enables you to comply with the 3-2-1 backup rule. By going beyond that and adopting a multi-cloud strategy, it is possible to save money and enhance redundancy and security by having data in more than one public cloud service.
How to Back Up Your Mac’s Photos Library
Your photos are precious memories that can’t be replaced so you should make sure that no matter what happens, your photo library is safe from disaster. Here are some tips for Mac Photos users to make sure your memories are preserved.
Panna Cooking Creates the Perfect Storage Recipe with Backblaze and 45 Drives
Panna Cooking uses video to deliver recipes and cooking lessons from top chefs to eager home cooks. They needed to ensure that all their valuable video content was securely stored, yet readily available. A solution from 45 Drives and Backblaze gave Panna Cooking the best of both worlds: high performance local storage and readily accessible and affordable off-site cloud storage.
Welcome Daniel — Sales Development Rep
Our sales team is growing! As Backblaze for Business continues to grow, we needed someone to come in and help our sales team. That help came in the form of Daniel, the latest Sales Development Representative to join Backblaze! Lets learn a bit more about Daniel shall we? What is your Backblaze Title? Sales Development… Continue reading Welcome Daniel — Sales Development Rep