Thank you for your interest, but this position has been filled. Please check out our jobs page for additional great opportunities at Backblaze. Backblaze is looking to hire a full time content director. This role is an essential piece of our team, reporting directly to our VP of marketing. As the hiring manager, I’d like… Continue reading Wanted: Content Director
Confessions of a Digital Pack Rat: Almost Half a Petabyte and Still Growing
What do you do when you have almost half a petabyte of data? That’s the situation in which Michael Oskierko finds himself. He’s a self-proclaimed digital pack rat who’s amassed more than 390TB total, and it’s continuing to grow. Based in Texas, Michael Oskierko is a financial analyst by day. But he’s set up one… Continue reading Confessions of a Digital Pack Rat: Almost Half a Petabyte and Still Growing
Protecting Your Account
Editor’s Note: This is a copy of an email sent to our customers on April 28, 2017. The Backblaze login database has in no way been compromised. That said, we have seen a number of automated login attempts to our site and wanted to alert our users of the risk. See below for more info.… Continue reading Protecting Your Account
Deleted or Changed a File You Need Back? Backblaze Can Help!
Sometimes we like to spotlight some of our most-used functionality. This particular feature of Backblaze Personal Backup can get you out of a bind. Suddenly find yourself looking for a missing file? Or have you opened a file only to find out that it’s changed? Having a local backup can get you to recover quickly.… Continue reading Deleted or Changed a File You Need Back? Backblaze Can Help!
Steel to Tin: The First 10 Years of Backblaze
Today Backblaze celebrates turning 10 years old. Tin is the traditional gift for a 10 year wedding anniversary, a sign of strength and flexibility. Getting to this point took not only the steel to make the servers, but tin as well. How things have changed: 2007 2017 Team Five Founders in a Palo Alto apartment… Continue reading Steel to Tin: The First 10 Years of Backblaze
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Drops Download Price by 60%
We are thrilled to announce that, effective immediately, we are reducing the price of Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage downloads from $0.05 to $0.02 per GB. What’s more, the first gigabyte of data downloaded each day is still free.
A History of Removable Computer Storage
Almost from the start, we’ve had a problem with computers: They create and consume more data than we can economically store. Hundreds of companies have been created around the need for more computer storage. These days, if we need space we can turn to cloud services like our own Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, but it… Continue reading A History of Removable Computer Storage
How Backblaze Got Started: The Problem, the Solution, and the Stuff in Between
Backblaze will be celebrating its ten year anniversary this month. As I was reflecting on our path to get here, I thought some of the issues we encountered along the way are universal to most startups. With that in mind, I’ll write a series of blog posts focused on the entrepreneurial journey. This post is the first and focuses on the birth of Backblaze. I hope you stick around and enjoy the Backblaze story along the way.
Wanted: Sr. System Administrator
Are you a Linux SysAdmin 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: Sr. System Administrator
What’s New With Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage continues to grow in popularity as developers, IT personnel, and more realize the benefits of affordable cloud storage. Our Backblaze B2 engineering team continues to add features and capabilities to B2 Cloud Storage that our users identify as being helpful in getting their job done. Here’s a collection of recent updates… Continue reading What’s New With Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Backblaze Labs: The Future of DNA Storage
Backblaze Labs, the data storage innovation branch of Backblaze, is proud to present to you its newest innovation: Backblaze DNA Storage. Most recently, Backblaze Labs designed Storage Pod 6.0 and built out our Vault infrastructure that powers Backblaze Computer Backup and Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage. DNA Storage has long been in our sights and we’re… Continue reading Backblaze Labs: The Future of DNA Storage
Four Things to Do on World Backup Day
Happy World Backup Day! Are you backed up? If not, you should be! And if you are backing up, now’s the time to check to make sure your backup is doing what it’s supposed to be doing. On this day, we thought we’d offer a few backup pointers to make sure you’re on the right… Continue reading Four Things to Do on World Backup Day
A Day in the Life of a Data Center
We’re going to take a look at a typical day in the life of a data center, including what it’s like to visit a data center and see what’s inside.
APFS: What You Need to Know About Apple’s New File System
Editor’s note: We posted this article originally in August 2016. We’ve since updated it with new information. APFS, or Apple File System, is one of the biggest changes coming to every new Apple device. It makes its public debut with the release of iOS 10.3, but it’s also coming to the Mac. (In fact, it’s… Continue reading APFS: What You Need to Know About Apple’s New File System
Back Up and Restore Time Machine Using Synology and the Backblaze B2 Cloud
Have you ever wished that you could have Time Machine, your Synology NAS, and B2 Cloud Storage work together to automatically backup your Mac locally and to the cloud? That would be cool. Of course, you’d also want to be able to restore your Time Machine backup from your Synology NAS or the B2 cloud. And while you’re wishing, it would be great if you could have an encrypted USB Hard Drive show up at your doorstep with your Time Machine backup. Stop wishing! You can do all that today. Here’s how.
How to Securely Recycle or Dispose of Your SSD
Solid state drives (SSDs) are fast and efficient. More new computers than ever come with them, and many of us have upgraded our existing PCs and Macs to them to get better performance or to replace dead or dying spinning hard drives. With prices dropping on larger SSDs, those of us who have outgrown our… Continue reading How to Securely Recycle or Dispose of Your SSD
The Cloud’s Software: A Look Inside Backblaze
When most of us think about “the cloud,” we have an abstract idea that it’s computers in a data center somewhere—racks of blinking lights and lots of loud fans. There’s truth to that. Have a look inside our data center to get an idea. But besides the impressive hardware—and the skilled techs needed to keep… Continue reading The Cloud’s Software: A Look Inside Backblaze
The Economics of Hybrid Cloud Storage
“Hybrid cloud” has jumped into the IT vernacular over the last few years. Hybrid cloud solutions intelligently divide processing and data storage between on-premises and off-premises resources to maximize efficiency. Businesses seamlessly extend their data processing and data storage capabilities to the cloud enabling them to manage unusual or fluctuating demands for services. More recently,… Continue reading The Economics of Hybrid Cloud Storage