With CrashPlan deciding to leave the consumer backup space, CrashPlan for Home customers are now faced with having to migrate their data to a new cloud backup service. Uploading your data from your computer to a new service is onerous enough, but one thing that seems to be getting overlooked is the potential for the… Continue reading How to Migrate All of Your Data From CrashPlan
Wanted: Front End Developer
Want to work at a company that helps customers in over 150 countries around the world protect the memories they hold dear? Do you want to challenge yourself with a business that serves consumers, small to medium-sized businesses, enterprises, and developers? If all that sounds interesting, you might be interested to know that Backblaze is… Continue reading Wanted: Front End Developer
Backblaze Cloud Backup 5.0: The Rapid Access Release
Announcing Backblaze Cloud Backup 5.0: The Rapid Access Release. We’ve been at the backup game for a long time now, and we continue to focus on providing the best unlimited backup service on the planet. A lot of the features in this release have come from listening to our customers about how they want to… Continue reading Backblaze Cloud Backup 5.0: The Rapid Access Release
Getting Your Data Into the Cloud Is Just the Beginning
As cloud storage has become ubiquitous, organizations large and small are joining in. For larger organizations the lure of reducing capital expenses and their associated operational costs is enticing. For smaller organizations, cloud storage often replaces an unmanageable closet full of external hard drives, thumb drives, SD cards, and other devices. With terabytes or even petabytes of data, the common challenge facing organizations, large and small, is how to get their data up to the cloud.
A New Twist on Data Backup: CloudNAS
There are many ways for SMBs, professionals, and advanced users to back up their data. The process can be as simple as copying files to a flash drive or an external drive, or as sophisticated as using a Synology or a QNAP NAS device as your primary storage device and syncing the files to a… Continue reading A New Twist on Data Backup: CloudNAS
Wanted: Automation Systems Administrator
Are you an automation systems administrator who is looking for a challenging and fast-paced working environment? Want to a join our dynamic team and help Backblaze grow to new heights? Our Operations team is a distributed and collaborative group of individual contributors. We work closely together to build and maintain our home-grown cloud storage farm,… Continue reading Wanted: Automation Systems Administrator
Wanted: Site Reliability Engineer
Are you a site reliability engineer who is looking for a challenging and fast-paced working environment? Want to a join our dynamic team and help Backblaze grow to new heights? Our Operations team is a distributed and collaborative group of individual contributors. We work closely together to build and maintain our home-grown cloud storage farm,… Continue reading Wanted: Site Reliability Engineer
Wanted: Network Systems Administrator
Are you a network systems administrator who is looking for a challenging and fast-paced working environment? Want to a join our dynamic team and help Backblaze grow to new heights? Our Operations team is a distributed and collaborative group of individual contributors. We work closely together to build and maintain our home-grown cloud storage farm,… Continue reading Wanted: Network Systems Administrator
Wanted: Database Systems Administrator
Are you a database systems administrator who is looking for a challenging and fast-paced working environment? Want to a join our dynamic team and help Backblaze grow to new heights? Our Operations team is a distributed and collaborative group of individual contributors. We work closely together to build and maintain our home grown cloud storage… Continue reading Wanted: Database Systems Administrator
Top Ten Ways to Protect Yourself Against Phishing Attacks
It’s hard to miss the increasing frequency of phishing attacks in the news. Earlier this year, a major phishing attack targeted Google Docs users, and attempted to compromise at least one million Google Docs accounts. Experts say the “phish” was convincing and sophisticated, and even people who thought they would never be fooled by a… Continue reading Top Ten Ways to Protect Yourself Against Phishing Attacks
Introducing Our Content Director: Roderick
As Backblaze continues to grow, and as we go down the path of sharing our stories, we fid ourselves in need of someone that can wrangle our content calendar, write blog posts, and come up with interesting ideas that we can share with our readers and fans. We put out the call, and found Roderick!… Continue reading Introducing Our Content Director: Roderick
Why Consumer Design Is Good for Business
We know that business users sometimes ask, “Why can’t business software be as easy to use as consumer software?” At Backblaze, we believe it can be. We started our business to make backup easier for everyone, knowing that the primary reason why people don’t back up is that it is too complicated and too intimidating.… Continue reading Why Consumer Design Is Good for Business
How to Get Your First 1,000 Customers
If you launch your startup and no one knows, did you actually launch? As mentioned in my last post, our initial launch target was to get a 1,000 people to use our service. But how do you get even 1,000 people to sign up for your service when no one knows who you are?
Two-factor Verification via Auth Apps
Security is something we take very seriously at Backblaze. All Backblaze backups occur over HTTPS, are encrypted, and we even have private encryption key functionality available for those who wish to add another layer of protection. In 2015, we added two-factor verification via SMS to our service, which allowed customers to use a mobile device… Continue reading Two-factor Verification via Auth Apps
The Cost of Cloud Storage
This week, we’re celebrating the one year anniversary of the launch of Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage. Today’s post is focused on giving you a peek behind the curtain about the costs of providing cloud storage.
Desert to Data in Seven Days—Our Phoenix Data Center
We are pleased to announce that Backblaze is now storing some of our customers’ data in our newest data center in Phoenix. Let’s take you through the process of getting the Phoenix data center up and running.
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage on a Budget: One Year Later
A year ago, Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage came out of beta and became available for everyone to use. We were pretty excited, even though it seemed like everyone and their brother had a cloud storage offering. Now that we are a year down the road let’s see how B2 has fared in the real world of tight budgets, maxed-out engineering schedules, insanely funded competition, and more. Spoiler alert: We’re still pretty excited…
From Idea to Launch: Getting Your First Customers
After deciding to build an unlimited backup service and developing our own storage platform, the next step was to get customers and feedback. Not all customers are created equal. Let’s talk about the types, and when and how to attract them.