We are very proud to announce that Backblaze was selected as a finalist for the 2013 SIIA Software CODiE Awards in the Best Cloud Storage and Back Up Solution category. The SIIA CODiE Awards are the premier award for the software and information industries, and have been recognizing product excellence for 27 years. To become… Continue reading Backblaze Is a CODiE Finalist
The Real Story Behind Drive Farming
We try to be really honest and up-front here at Backblaze online backup, but we have a few things that we keep close to the chest. Even though we told the story behind our drive farming a few months ago, there were some things we didn’t tell you. We’re sorry. So, we created this video… Continue reading The Real Story Behind Drive Farming
A Million Dollars Worth of Backblaze
Backblaze is giving away one million dollars worth of the Backblaze Personal Backup service. “Whoa,” you say, “Backblaze is like the thriftiest company ever, now they’re giving away a million dollars worth of their service, what gives?” That’s a fair question. Here’s the deal… Starting immediately and running through the end of World Backup Day… Continue reading A Million Dollars Worth of Backblaze
Incredible Invoices!
Backblaze has a great support team and one of the most frequent requests they receive is, “Could you please provide an invoice?” From the beginning, we’ve been handcrafting every invoice that’s been sent out, and while we love making our customers happy, as Backblaze has grown it’s become increasingly difficult to keep up with all… Continue reading Incredible Invoices!
180TB of Good Vibrations: Storage Pod 3.0
To get the latest updates and informationon ALL of the Storage Pod versions. Click Here. We thought ten people would care; instead, a million people read our “Storage Pod 1.0” blog post where we open sourced the Backblaze Storage Pod design and introduced the world’s most cost efficient way to store big data. The interest… Continue reading 180TB of Good Vibrations: Storage Pod 3.0
Backblaze: The Strong Silent Type
Our first “restory” is actually two stories, each lovingly crafted and delivered to Backblaze. And you thought online backup couldn’t be romantic… A One Way Street I think I should take this time to just tell you what our relationship is: a one way street. Honestly, I don’t think about you at all. You just… Continue reading Backblaze: The Strong Silent Type
Backblaze Mobile for iPhone
Backblaze Mobile for iPhone lets you access and share the photos, documents, music and more you have stored with Backblaze Online Backup.
Data Restores: More, More, and Even More!
Editor’s note: On March 3, 2022, Backblaze ended the USB flash drive restore option. While we parted ways with USB flash drives, we continue to offer many options for restoring your files—explore ways to recover your data here. For all our talk about online backup, restoring data is what Backblaze is all about! “Backblaze saved… Continue reading Data Restores: More, More, and Even More!
Software Engineer: Monika
Bringing with her a master’s of science degree from MIT and a handful of patents, Monika joins Backblaze as a Software Engineer. She’ll initially work on the server side of our service and she’s already busy checking in new code. Welcome Monika. How did you get into computers? I took a basic language course in… Continue reading Software Engineer: Monika
Honoring Our Drive Farmers
Back in November, our drive farming brigade was asked to farm hard drives for us over the Thanksgiving holiday. Hundreds of drives showed up and we dutifully sent them to our warehouse. They joined our drive stockpile and patiently waited for their chance to reach their hard drive destiny and be part of a Backblaze… Continue reading Honoring Our Drive Farmers
Welcome Ric, Data Center Guy Extraordinaire
The assembly of our kick butt Operations team continues with the addition of Ric. Keeping 40+ petabytes of customer data safe and happy takes talent and we went all the way to Sacramento to find Ric. Here’s his story. Where are you originally from? It may sound a little morbid, but whenever I’m asked this… Continue reading Welcome Ric, Data Center Guy Extraordinaire
Cats, Computers, and Calamity
Cats can be so darn cute, and popular. Don’t take my word for it, there are thousands and thousands of cat videos on YouTube with millions and millions of views. I would guess if you added up all the “cat views” they’d easily surpass Bieber and PSY. Please don’t spend your time figuring out if… Continue reading Cats, Computers, and Calamity
We’re Still Here!
Well folks, we made it! It turns out we skirted another “world-ending” event. Even though Gangnam Style did hit 1,000,000,000 views on 12/21/2012, the world did not end as was expected. (Sure, it wasn’t a real prediction, but we got a kick out of it.) As a way of celebrating the continuance of this fine… Continue reading We’re Still Here!
Mac OS X 10.4 – Tiger End of Life
What is happening? Backblaze has made the tough decision to stop supporting Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. As of February 1, 2013, Backblaze will no longer run on Mac computers running OSX 10.4 Tiger. Don’t worry though; we won’t let you go that easy. Backblaze is committed to providing unlimited online backup to all of… Continue reading Mac OS X 10.4 – Tiger End of Life
If the World Doesn’t End December 21st…
It’s good to have a backup plan. If the Mayans are to be believed, their calendar is ending this year on December 21, 2012 and the world is ending with it. There’s been some previous end of the world speculation before; but this one has Mayan science on its side! Plus Nostradamus also predicted the… Continue reading If the World Doesn’t End December 21st…
Crowdsourcing Hard Drives
It was 12:10 a.m. on Black Friday. Dave sat clicking the refresh button on his browser; waiting for the page to reveal Costco’s Black Friday deal… Earlier in the day, Dave had signed up to be a drive farmer for Backblaze—a Black Friday drive farmer. He joined about 50 others who signed up to buy… Continue reading Crowdsourcing Hard Drives
Wanted: Black Friday Drive Farmers
Hard drive prices shot up due to the flooding in Thailand, and still haven’t returned to “pre-flood” levels. Since we are determined to keep our commitment to unlimited online backup, we’re constantly looking for good deals on drives. We just found out that Costco will have a fantastic deal on hard drives this weekend. The… Continue reading Wanted: Black Friday Drive Farmers
Thank You for Believing in Us!
With the thanking season fast approaching, we wanted to take a moment and give thanks to all of our loyal fans, evangelists, customers, blog readers, employees, and everyone else that has helped us along the way! Backblaze is now more than five years old, and we couldn’t have done it without all of you. When… Continue reading Thank You for Believing in Us!