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Marjorie Joins the Engineers

With the upcoming release of Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, we are staffing up our Engineering team. The latest addition is Marjorie Ready! She’s working remotely out of Madison, Wisconsin, bringing the total number of people at Backblaze that know about New Glarus Brewing Company to three (Candace, Marjorie, and myself). Marjorie comes to visit the… Continue reading Marjorie Joins the Engineers

Back to Our Future

As you’ve probably already read, today is that day. October 21st, 2015. The day Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel to the future to help the McFly descendants. If you haven’t seen the “Back to the Future” series, I highly recommend it (though to many people’s dismay I like the third film, the Western, best).… Continue reading Back to Our Future

Adding Google Drive to Your Backup Plan

Backing up your Google documents seems rather redundant doesn’t it? Google does that stuff for you, right? However, forgetting to back up your Google items is something you could deeply regret. There are a few common reasons for this error and some easy ways to prevent it. Risk of Accidental Deletion or Removal Although Google… Continue reading Adding Google Drive to Your Backup Plan

Backblaze B2: The World’s Lowest Cost Cloud Storage

Ever since we open-sourced the original Backblaze Storage Pod and shared our storage costs, people have been saying, “I love your backup service, but I need a place to just store data. Can you give me direct access to your cloud storage?” After a year of hard work and tremendous excitement from our team, I’m delighted that today the answer is, “Yes!” We are announcing a brand new service, Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage.

The Evolution of the Backblaze Storage Pod: A Deep Dive

In September 2009, we introduced the Backblaze Storage Pod to the storage community. We then open-sourced the Storage Pod’s hardware design, and included a parts list, assembly instructions, and a cool 3D Storage Pod model. This enabled anyone with the desire and ability to create their own storage system. Over the past six years, we’ve… Continue reading The Evolution of the Backblaze Storage Pod: A Deep Dive

Backblaze Release 4.0.4

We’ve updated our Backblaze client to version 4.0.4. This is a fairly minor release; there are a few key changes. Windows: Designed with latest Visual Studio 15 Updated to latest OpenSSL, resulting in increased performance and security Minor tweaks and fixes Mac: Support for Mac OS X 10.11 “El Capitan” Flame icon changes Minor tweaks… Continue reading Backblaze Release 4.0.4

The Faceplate for the Next Storage Pod: What Do You Think?

We have over 1,000 Backblaze Storage Pods storing over 150 petabytes of data. Who cares what they look like as long as they work, right? Turns out lots of people care—they care a lot. And it’s not just the folks in the data center, nearly everyone here at Backblaze has an opinion—marketing, engineering, sales, finance,… Continue reading The Faceplate for the Next Storage Pod: What Do You Think?

Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business. Really.

The better goal? Keep your head down, make a great product, and build a successful business. Silicon Valley prays at the altar of the billion-dollar business. And for good reason: These companies define industries, give the founders so-called “F-you money,” and provide VCs with a return that can counterbalance a dozen lousy investments. I don’t… Continue reading Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business. Really.

A Behind the Scenes Look at Designing the Next Storage Pod

Tim holds up a drive beam and shows the design to Matt, who is attending the meeting courtesy of a telepresence robot. They are discussing the results of a prototype Storage Pod developed using Agile development methodology applied to hardware design. The Storage Pod they are discussing was the result of the fifth sprint (iteration)… Continue reading A Behind the Scenes Look at Designing the Next Storage Pod