AI is a useful tool for businesses, but it also presents challenges. Here are four questions to help you understand when you have an AI-worthy business problem.
The Fine Print: How Minimum Data Retention Fees Affect Cloud Costs
Minimum retention fees, minimum storage duration fees, and delete fees all essentially mean the same thing: You’re getting charged for data after you’ve deleted it. Here’s how they can impact your cloud storage bill.
Backblaze B2 Event Notifications Now Generally Available
Backblaze B2 Event Notifications is now generally available. Read on to see how to use this powerful feature to streamline your workflows.
The Cloud Storage Playbook: 4 Best Practices for Sports Teams
As sports teams evolve, cloud storage media workflows are becoming increasingly necessary.
Is Your Data Really Safe? A Guide on How to Test Your Backups
Regular backup testing is an essential tool to make sure that data is properly backed up, your team is ready when there’s a crisis, and key features like immutability are properly configured.
Mastering Mac MDM: Best Practices for Managing Your macOS Fleet
Mac-powered enterprises are becoming increasingly common, especially when security is a concern. As a result, so are Mac-native mobile device management (MDM) tools. Let’s talk about some best practices for IT admins.
Announcing Full IPv6 Support Across the Entire Backblaze Cloud Platform
If you’re rocking IPv6 or it’s on your roadmap, Backblaze is now phasing in IPv6 support for the S3 compatible API.
How to Zip Files with the Python S3fs Library + Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
A customer question inspires adventures in the Python S3fs library to build an application for creating .zip files from Backblaze B2.
Backblaze Open Sources Boardwalk Workflow Engine for Ansible
Read about how to orchestrate Ansible to help automate rolling maintenance jobs like kernel and OS upgrades across your production environment.
Cyber Insurance Basics: Understanding Coverage and Deductibles
As the cost of ransomware attacks has gone up across the board, industry experts have seen increasing demand for cyber insurance. Let’s talk about what you need to know to decide if cyber insurance is right for your business.
Do More with Backblaze B2: A Tour of the Backblaze GitHub Repositories
Check out the Backblaze GitHub for a whole slew of useful, open source tools built on Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage.
Three Surprising Factors that Affect Cloud Performance
There are several factors that can affect your performance metrics when working in the cloud. Here are a few of the surprising ones.
Five Tips for Creating a Predictable Cloud Storage Budget
Cloud storage pricing models can be tricky—but they don’t have to be. Here are some tips for helping you estimate your cloud storage budget.
What Are Software Containers? A Beginner’s Guide to Container Technology
Learn more about what containers are, how they’re used in AI and other workloads, and how cloud storage works together with containerized applications.
Backblaze Network Stats: Ingress Trends and What They Tell Us About Backup Behaviors
Ingress trends tell us that humans are creatures of habit.
Command Like a Pro with New Backblaze B2 CLI Enhancements
Check out the latest enhancements to the Backblaze B2 CLI in version 4.1.0.
Welcoming Chief Financial Officer Marc Suidan to Backblaze
Marc Suidan joins Backblaze as chief financial officer. Welcome, Marc!
How to Build Your Own LLM with Backblaze B2 + Jupyter Notebook
We didn’t use an LLM to write this, but we did figure out how to build one on Backblaze B2.