$34 billion in bitcoins may have been lost because the information needed to trade or sell the currencies was misplaced or destroyed. This could have been prevented if the owners had securely backed up their keys. No matter how you manage your cryptocurrency, we look into the best ways to back up your keys so this doesn’t happen to you.
Cryptocurrency Security Challenges
Anyone venturing into the fast-moving world of cryptocurrencies had better be prepared with solid information and a healthy dose of skepticism if they want to buy, sell, or trade currencies. In this post, we go over the basics required to be an intelligent participant in the cryptocurrency revolution.
The Helium Factor and Hard Drive Failure Rates
Does the promise of helium-filled drives prove to be real? In this post we compare the performance of 19,065 Seagate and HGST helium hard drives vs. 24,281 Seagate air-filled drives. What do the numbers tell us?
Hard Drive Stats for Q1 2018
For the most recent Hard Drive Reliability Statistics, as well as the raw hard drive test data, visit Hard Drive Data and Stats. As of March 31, 2018 we had 100,110 spinning hard drives. Of that number, there were 1,922 boot drives and 98,188 data drives. This review looks at the quarterly and lifetime statistics… Continue reading Hard Drive Stats for Q1 2018
Welcome Steven: Associate Front End Developer
The Backblaze web team is growing! As we add more features and work on our website we need more hands to get things done. Enter Steven, who joins us as an Associate Front End Developer. Steven is going to be getting his hands dirty and diving in to the fun-filled world of web development. Lets… Continue reading Welcome Steven: Associate Front End Developer
Ransomware Update: Viruses Targeting Business IT Servers
As ransomware attacks have grown in number in recent months, the tactics and attack vectors also have evolved. While the primary method of attack used to be to target individual computer users within organizations, we’re increasingly seeing attacks that target weaknesses in businesses’ IT infrastructure.
Welcome Victoria — Sales Development Representative
Ever since we introduced our Groups feature, Backblaze for Business has been growing at a rapid rate! We’ve been staffing up in order to support the product and the newest addition to the sales team, Victoria, joins us as a Sales Development Representative! Let’s learn a bit more about Victoria, shall we? What is your… Continue reading Welcome Victoria — Sales Development Representative
Backblaze at NAB 2018 in Las Vegas
Backblaze just returned from exhibiting at NAB in Las Vegas, where the response to our recent announcements was tremendous. In case you missed the news, Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage continues to extend its lead as the most affordable, high performance cloud on the planet.
Cloud Empire: Meet the Rebel Alliance
Last week Backblaze made the exciting announcement that through partnerships with Packet and ServerCentral, cloud computing is available to Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage customers. If you’re not familiar with cloud computing, here is a quick introduction.
Welcome Daren — Data Center Technician
The data center team continues to expand and the latest person to join the team is Daren! He’s very well versed with our infrastructure and is a welcome addition to the caregivers for our ever-growing fleet! What is your Backblaze Title? Data Center Technician. Where are you originally from? Fair Oaks, CA. What attracted you… Continue reading Welcome Daren — Data Center Technician
American Public Television Embraces the Cloud — And the Future
American Public Television was like many organizations that have been around for a while. They were entrenched using an older technology — in their case, tape storage and distribution — that once met their needs but was limiting their productivity and preventing them from effectively collaborating with their many media partners. APT’s VP of Technology knew that he needed to move into the future and embrace cloud storage to keep APT ahead of the game.
Backblaze Announces B2 Compute Partnerships
Today we’re announcing that compute is now available for B2 Cloud Storage customers through our partnerships with Packet and ServerCentral. These partnerships enable B2 customers to use compute, give our compute partners’ customers access to cloud storage, and introduce new customers to industry-leading storage and compute — all with high-performance, low-latency, and low-cost.
Backblaze’s New Cloud Storage Offering
Why pay less for the same service? We’ve spent the last month making changes to Backblaze B2. We’ve reduced the B2 Download Prices in Half, expanded on our Snapshot USB Restore program by offering refunds if the hard drives are shipped back to us, and have built out our Backblaze Fireball program into a self-service… Continue reading Backblaze’s New Cloud Storage Offering
World Backup Day 2018: Backing Up The World
March 31 is World Backup Day. It’s a good day to remember to back up all your data. The map above shows all the countries of the world where Backblaze customers have peace-of-mind knowing their data is safe.
Introducing Backblaze’s Rapid Ingest Service: B2 Fireball
Backblaze’s rapid ingest service, Fireball, graduates out of public beta. Our device holds 70 terabytes of customer data and is perfect for migrating large data sets to Backblaze’s B2 Cloud Storage.
Welcome Billy – Senior Systems Administrator
The data center keeps growing, with well over 500 Petabytes of data under management we needed more systems administrators to help us keep track of all the systems as our operation expands. Our latest systems administrator is Billy! Let’s learn a bit more about him shall we? What is your Backblaze Title? Sr. Systems Administrator… Continue reading Welcome Billy – Senior Systems Administrator
Welcome Jacob – Data Center Technician
With over 500 Petabytes of data under management we need more people keeping the drives spinning in our data center. We’re constantly hiring Systems Administrators and Data Center Technicians, and here’s our latest one! Lets learn a bit more about Jacob, shall we? What is your Backblaze Title? Data center Technician Where are you originally… Continue reading Welcome Jacob – Data Center Technician
Welcome Nathan – Our Solutions Engineer
Backblaze is growing, and with it our need to cater to a lot of different use cases that our customers bring to us. We needed a Solutions Engineer to help out, and after a long search we’ve hired our first one! Lets learn a bit more about Nathan shall we? What is your Backblaze Title?… Continue reading Welcome Nathan – Our Solutions Engineer