{"id":1047,"date":"2012-03-27T17:13:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T00:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/?p=1047"},"modified":"2025-12-14T13:33:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T21:33:55","slug":"backblaze-on-reddit-iama-on-328","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/backblaze-on-reddit-iama-on-328\/","title":{"rendered":"Backblaze on Reddit IAmA on 3\/28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1076\" title=\"reddit ask us\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/blog-narwhal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/blog-narwhal.jpg 560w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/blog-narwhal-300x139.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"bzdropcap\">Whether you&#8217;ve been on Reddit or not, stop by <a href=\"http:\/\/iama.reddit.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iama.reddit.com<\/a> on Wednesday 3\/28 starting at about 10:00 a.m. PDT. Backblaze will be engaging the Reddit community with the <b>IAmA:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>&#8220;We are the team that runs online backup service Backblaze. We&#8217;ve got 25,000,000GB of cloud storage and open sourced our storage server. AUA.&#8221;<\/ul>\n<p>For those of you who are new to Reddit, IAmA is short for &#8220;I Am A&#8221; and AUA is short for &#8220;Ask Us Anything.&#8221; Everyone is invited to join the conversation by submitting posts and votes and interacting with Backblaze and the Reddit community until the moderators throw us off&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This is just one of the many activities going on for <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/GRsG7O\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World Backup Day<\/a> on March 31, 2012. The audacious goal of World Backup Day is to have everyone back up their files, photos, videos\u2014all their data\u2014on that day. Backblaze, as a Presenting Sponsor for World Backup Day, is helping organizers to spread the word through leading community driven news sites such as Reddit. On Reddit, users provide all of the content and decide, through voting, what&#8217;s good and what&#8217;s junk. There are thousands of subreddits with active communities of users who interact with users of similar interests each day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/IAmA\/comments\/rhrt4\/we_are_the_team_that_runs_online_backup_service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">link to Backblaze IAmA on Reddit.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you&#8217;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: &#8220;We are the team that runs online backup service Backblaze. We&#8217;ve got 25,000,000GB of cloud storage and open sourced our storage server. AUA.&#8221; For those of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/backblaze-on-reddit-iama-on-328\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Backblaze on Reddit IAmA on 3\/28<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":1069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[131,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-backblaze-bits","category-events","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ask Us Anything: Join the Backblaze Team for a Reddit IAmA on 3\/28<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, nofollow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ask Us Anything: Join the Backblaze Team for a Reddit IAmA on 3\/28\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Whether you&#8217;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: &#8220;We are the team that runs online backup service Backblaze. We&#8217;ve got 25,000,000GB of cloud storage and open sourced our storage server. AUA.&#8221; For those of&hellip; Continue reading Backblaze on Reddit IAmA on 3\/28\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/backblaze-on-reddit-iama-on-328\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage &amp; Cloud Backup\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/backblaze\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-03-28T00:13:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-12-14T21:33:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/blog-reddit.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"260\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Andy Klein\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@backblaze\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@backblaze\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Andy Klein\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Ask Us Anything: Join the Backblaze Team for a Reddit IAmA on 3\/28","robots":{"index":"noindex","follow":"nofollow"},"og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Ask Us Anything: Join the Backblaze Team for a Reddit IAmA on 3\/28","og_description":"Whether you&#8217;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: &#8220;We are the team that runs online backup service Backblaze. We&#8217;ve got 25,000,000GB of cloud storage and open sourced our storage server. AUA.&#8221; For those of&hellip; Continue reading Backblaze on Reddit IAmA on 3\/28","og_url":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/backblaze-on-reddit-iama-on-328\/","og_site_name":"Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage &amp; Cloud Backup","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/backblaze","article_published_time":"2012-03-28T00:13:49+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-12-14T21:33:55+00:00","og_image":[{"width":560,"height":260,"url":"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/blog-reddit.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Andy Klein","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@backblaze","twitter_site":"@backblaze","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Andy Klein","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/backblaze-on-reddit-iama-on-328\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/backblaze-on-reddit-iama-on-328\/"},"author":{"name":"Andy Klein","@id":"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/9ac7e0bf0bd16852f8bfef352ce5fa8c"},"headline":"Backblaze on Reddit IAmA on 3\/28","datePublished":"2012-03-28T00:13:49+00:00","dateModified":"2025-12-14T21:33:55+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/backblaze-on-reddit-iama-on-328\/"},"wordCount":219,"commentCount":1,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/backblaze-on-reddit-iama-on-328\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/blog-reddit.jpg","articleSection":["Backblaze Bits","Events"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/backblaze-on-reddit-iama-on-328\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/backblaze-on-reddit-iama-on-328\/","url":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/backblaze-on-reddit-iama-on-328\/","name":"Ask Us Anything: Join the Backblaze Team for a Reddit IAmA on 3\/28","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/backblaze-on-reddit-iama-on-328\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/backblaze-on-reddit-iama-on-328\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/blog-reddit.jpg","datePublished":"2012-03-28T00:13:49+00:00","dateModified":"2025-12-14T21:33:55+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/backblaze-on-reddit-iama-on-328\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/backblaze-on-reddit-iama-on-328\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/backblaze-on-reddit-iama-on-328\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/blog-reddit.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/blog-reddit.jpg","width":560,"height":260},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/backblaze-on-reddit-iama-on-328\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Backblaze on Reddit IAmA on 3\/28"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/blog\/","name":"Backblaze Cloud Solutions Blog","description":"Cloud Storage &amp; Cloud Backup","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/blog\/#organization","name":"Backblaze","url":"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/backblaze_icon_transparent.png?fit=512%2C512&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/backblaze_icon_transparent.png?fit=512%2C512&ssl=1","width":512,"height":512,"caption":"Backblaze"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/backblaze","https:\/\/x.com\/backblaze","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/Backblaze","https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Backblaze"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/9ac7e0bf0bd16852f8bfef352ce5fa8c","name":"Andy Klein","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/andy.jpg","url":"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/andy.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/andy.jpg","caption":"Andy Klein"},"description":"Andy Klein is the former Principal Cloud Storage Storyteller at Backblaze. He has over 25 years of experience in technology marketing and during that time, he has shared his expertise in cloud storage and computer security at events, symposiums, and panels at RSA, SNIA SDC, MIT, the Federal Trade Commission, and hundreds more. He currently writes and rants about drive stats, Storage Pods, cloud storage, and more.","url":"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/blog\/author\/andy\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/blog-reddit.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}