With Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage ramping up, we keep buying more and more stuff. We needed help! Enter Amanda! She’s already been interfacing with our current purchasing and BZ Labs teams while working for one of our contract manufacturers, Evolve! We’re glad to have her on board full time and helping us with our ever-mounting… Continue reading Expert Buyer Amanda Joins the Crew
200 Petabytes of Customer Data and Counting
Backblaze now stores over 200 petabytes of customer data on our Storage Pods. Actually, we crossed that line a few weeks ago but we were busy with our Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage beta thing and so here we are, a little late—200 petabytes of customer data. Yes, 200 petabytes is a big number—a two followed… Continue reading 200 Petabytes of Customer Data and Counting
Sr. Software Engineer Doug Comes Aboard!
As Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage gets closer to coming online, we’re adding more people to our Engineering team! The latest addition is Doug! Doug joins us from Colorado, where he lives with his family and enjoys the mountain air. Doug is a pretty interesting guy, with a bit of a background in game development. Lets… Continue reading Sr. Software Engineer Doug Comes Aboard!
Wanted: Tech Support Master
Thank you for your interest, but this position has been filled. Please check out our jobs page for additional great opportunities at Backblaze. Backblaze’s online backup support team needs a customer support master to help answer any and all questions from our customers. This position is for the Backblaze Personal Backup service! Tech Support Representative… Continue reading Wanted: Tech Support Master
Join the Alliance—Backblaze Needs a Senior Network Engineer & Data Center Tech
Thank you for your interest, but this position has been filled. Please check out our jobs page for additional great opportunities at Backblaze. With the announcement of Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, we keep on growing, and we need some help! We’re looking for two Rebels to join the Alliance, a Senior Network Engineer for our… Continue reading Join the Alliance—Backblaze Needs a Senior Network Engineer & Data Center Tech
Elliott Finds Home as a Senior Sysadmin!
Elliott comes to us from Facebook as a referral by Chuck, who was referred to us by… Elliott! Life is cyclical after all! Elliott’s already hit the ground running and is already all up in our systems. Like Chuck he likes car racing, and he just happens to be our first Mountain Dew drinker in… Continue reading Elliott Finds Home as a Senior Sysadmin!
The Hardware Inside Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage: Storage Pod 5.0
To get the latest updates and information on ALL of the Storage Pod versions, click here. A couple of months ago, we gave you a sneak peek as we designed and prototyped our next generation Storage Pod. We’re done, and Storage Pod 5.0 is here and it is faster, beefier, easier to assemble, easier to… Continue reading The Hardware Inside Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage: Storage Pod 5.0
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
Have You Tested Your Backup Lately?
Everyone should be backing up, right? Sure. Backups, though, aren’t important. If you want to get your data back, the thing you should be worried about is the restore. Can you restore your data? A backup you can’t restore data from is worthless. Don’t assume no news is good news from your backups. You test… Continue reading Have You Tested Your Backup Lately?
Natasha Joins Backblaze Business Backup
Our Backblaze Business Backup team has been growing lately and the latest addition to the team is Natasha! She’s been working with Backblaze ever since 2011, but mostly remotely and always behind the scenes, usually manning our social accounts. Well, we needed some help for our Backblaze Business Backup team and she fit right in!… Continue reading Natasha Joins Backblaze Business Backup
Welcome, Chuck: Our Data Center Expert
Some say that all things in life are cyclical. Backblaze pioneered DIY server architecture on a large scale with the Backblaze Storage Pods. This, in turn, spurred Facebook to start their Open Compute Project. This led to them having top-notch data center teams. And now, that leads to Chuck Goolsbee joining the Backblaze team after… Continue reading Welcome, Chuck: Our Data Center Expert
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
What Can 49,056 Hard Drives Tell Us? Hard Drive Reliability Stats for Q3 2015
As of the end of Q3 2015, there were 50,228 drives spinning in the Backblaze datacenter. Subtracting boot drives, drive models with less than 45 drives and drives in testing systems, we are publishing data on 49,056 hard drives spread across 26 different models, varying from 1.0TB to 8.0TB in size.
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Frequent Questions
Editor’s note: This post reflects pricing at the time it was published. Please refer to Backblaze Pricing Comparison for the latest information. We’ve had a lot of interest and many questions since announcing Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage last week and we want to thank you for engaging with us on our blog, Reddit, and HackerNews! I’ve… Continue reading Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Frequent Questions
Data Storage Technologies of the Future
If someone from the future—two decades or two centuries from now—traveled back in time to today, they’d probably chuckle at our use of hard drives and USB sticks, the way we now wonder how we ever survived with floppy disks and Zip drives. Want a peek at the kinds of storage devices we’ll be using… Continue reading Data Storage Technologies of the 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
The B2 Cloud Storage Launch, What’s Next?
On Tuesday, the 22nd, Backblaze announced Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage to the world. The response has been amazing. The B2 announcement was covered by many leading tech sites including TechCrunch, Fortune, The Next Web and many more.
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.