Backblaze launches in a big way in Japan today. We have partnered with Sourcenext to offer our unlimited online backup service to the Japanese market. The service provided in Japan still provides automatic backup, unlimited storage, unthrottled bandwidth, robust encryption, restore via download or USB drive, Locate My Computer, and more for one flat rate.… Continue reading Konichiwa! Backblaze Partners with Japan’s Largest Software Vendor: Sourcenext
1.6 Petabytes of Storage in One Day
Sometimes I’m just amazed how much data we store for our customers—pictures, videos, documents, spreadsheets, and more. It takes a lot of storage. Yesterday Kirk, Sean, new guy Dave, and Guido, from our operations group, outdid themselves. They racked and powered up 12 new Storage Pods in one day; that is freakin’ awesome and it’s… Continue reading 1.6 Petabytes of Storage in One Day
Backblaze Joins Foursquare, Wikipedia, and Apple in Moving to OpenStreetMap
If you use the “Locate My Computer” feature of Backblaze Personal Backup, you can get a map of the current location of your lost or stolen computer. Beginning today, that map will be provided by OpenStreetMap, a collaborative project to create a free, editable map of the world released through an open content license. What… Continue reading Backblaze Joins Foursquare, Wikipedia, and Apple in Moving to OpenStreetMap
Wanted: Customer Support Zealots
Our online backup team needs customer support zealots to help answer any and all questions from our customers. Customer Support Representative Experience in customer or technical support is a big plus, but the intense desire to help protect data and the belief that online backup is a critical component of any backup strategy is paramount.… Continue reading Wanted: Customer Support Zealots
The REAL Story Behind How Backblaze Can Afford Unlimited Storage for $5/Month
We told you the reason our online backup service could offer unlimited storage for just $5/month was as a result of our incredibly efficient cloud storage built on our custom-designed and open-sourced Storage Pod hardware. But, here’s the REAL story:
Today Is World Backup Day 2012: Back Up and Help Your Friends
It has arrived. This holiday has no painted eggs, no tree, no turkey, and no costumes. But it does have gifts: an iPad, five one-year unlimited online backup licenses, and more. More importantly, it has the ability to save your memories and give you the undying love of your friends, family, and co-workers. While 94%… Continue reading Today Is World Backup Day 2012: Back Up and Help Your Friends
Backblaze on Reddit IAmA on 3/28
Whether you’ve been on Reddit or not, stop by iama.reddit.com on Wednesday 3/28 starting at about 10:00 a.m. PDT. Backblaze will be engaging the Reddit community with the IAmA: “We are the team that runs online backup service Backblaze. We’ve got 25,000,000GB of cloud storage and open sourced our storage server. AUA.” For those of… Continue reading Backblaze on Reddit IAmA on 3/28
World Backup Day 2012
Backblaze is proud to be the Presenting Sponsor for World Backup Day 2012. World Backup Day was started by a couple of concerned Reddit users as an independent grassroots initiative meant to raise awareness about the importance of doing backups. The audacious goal of World Backup Day is to have everyone back up their files,… Continue reading World Backup Day 2012
“We Love You Backblaze” Contest Winner
First, we want to thank everyone for creating and sharing their videos for the “We Love You Backblaze” video contest. We hope everyone had fun. The creativity and uniqueness of the entries was truly amazing. Everyone who entered the contest will get a coveted Backblaze T-shirt, so if you entered the contest and haven’t heard… Continue reading “We Love You Backblaze” Contest Winner
Quick Maintenance at 2 p.m. PDT
Our Backblaze Personal Backup service will have a 30 minute maintenance at 2 p.m. PDT today (Tuesday 3/13/12). This is a slight finish up after last week’s maintenance. During this maintenance, some parts of our service will be affected: Restores and access to My Account will be unavailable. Creating new accounts will be unavailable. We… Continue reading Quick Maintenance at 2 p.m. PDT
“We Love You Backblaze” Contest Entries
Here are the entries for the “We Love You Backblaze” video contest.
Maintenance Tuesday and Wednesday
Backblaze is upgrading its central systems, which will take place in two phases: Tuesday 3/6/12 for about one hour sometime at 2 p.m. PST. Wednesday 3/7/12 for two to three hours starting at 2 p.m. PST. Due to massive growth, we are tripling the storage on those systems. Our storage farm scales infinitely without downtime… Continue reading Maintenance Tuesday and Wednesday
Backblaze Release 2.0.2
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. Backblaze has made a new release available and all users are scheduled to be automatically upgraded over… Continue reading Backblaze Release 2.0.2
Data Survivability With Ultrabook SSDs: A Dropped Zenbook and Teardown Findings
New Ultrabook Design Decisions Limit Data Recovery Options When my girlfriend recently dropped (and killed) her new Ultrabook, I found out the Solid State Drive (SSD) inside of it was not easily removable like the old hard drives always were. This means a dead laptop = completely lost data if you aren’t fully backed up.… Continue reading Data Survivability With Ultrabook SSDs: A Dropped Zenbook and Teardown Findings
Sing and Win an iPad
Nearly everyone likes to sing. And nearly everyone would like to win an iPad 3 when it becomes available. And we believe nearly everyone should backup their laptop or desktop computer with Backblaze. So we’ve combined all three into one easy contest: the “We Love You Backblaze” contest. One lucky winner will be able win an iPad 3. We’ve… Continue reading Sing and Win an iPad
Director of Product Marketing: Andy
Thanks to our great customers, Backblaze continues to grow. We are excited to announce that we have hired a Director of Product Marketing. Let’s spend a few minutes with Andy… Where are you from? And where are you now? I was born in Brooklyn New York and grew up on Long Island in Shirley, exit… Continue reading Director of Product Marketing: Andy
The DVD Is Dead. USB Flash Drive Restores Are Here.
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. DVDs were a fantastic storage medium, able to store an astounding 4.7GB of data for a few… Continue reading The DVD Is Dead. USB Flash Drive Restores Are Here.
Just in Time: Backblaze Saves New Employee
While I wish that everyone would backup their data, the reality is for many people it takes a specific event to occur. (Unfortunately, that moment for most people is data loss.) For Kirk, that moment was starting to work at Backblaze. In a crazy coincidence, immediately after starting work and signing up with our online… Continue reading Just in Time: Backblaze Saves New Employee