{"id":105525,"date":"2022-04-22T08:48:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T15:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/?p=105525"},"modified":"2025-12-12T15:00:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T23:00:27","slug":"a-refreshing-partnership-backblaze-and-soda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/a-refreshing-partnership-backblaze-and-soda\/","title":{"rendered":"A Refreshing Partnership: Backblaze and SoDA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-105534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/bb-bh-SoDa-Partnership.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/bb-bh-SoDa-Partnership.png 1440w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/bb-bh-SoDa-Partnership-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/bb-bh-SoDa-Partnership-1024x583.png 1024w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/bb-bh-SoDa-Partnership-768x437.png 768w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/bb-bh-SoDa-Partnership-560x319.png 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"abstract\" style=\"line-height: 1.8; margin: 24px 12px; padding: 24px 12px 10px 12px;\"><strong>Editor&#8217;s Note:<\/strong> SoDA and Backblaze will be at NAB 2022 and would love to tell you more about our joint solution\u2014offering data analysis and movement, FREE during initial migration\u2014at NAB. Set up a meeting <a href=\"https:\/\/hub.backblaze.com\/backblaze-nab2022?utm_source=partner&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=NAB-2022&amp;utm_content=SoDA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p id=\"bzdropcap\">Moving all your stuff is one of the most paralyzing projects imaginable. Which is why professional movers are amazing: one tackles the dishes, a couple folks hit the mattresses and closets. And there\u2019s one guy (probably the rookie) who gets assigned to the junk drawers and odd gadgets. Suddenly, your old house is empty and your life is safe and orderly in boxes moving across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Now imagine moving your businesses&#8217; most valuable data across the country or the world\u2014whether it\u2019s the organization, the security, the budgeting, or all of the above and then some\u2014it can be <em>absolutely<\/em> paralyzing, even when your current data storage approach is holding you back and you know you need to make a change.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>This is where SoDA comes in.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Essentially your professional movers in the cloud, the SoDA team analyzes your cloud or on-prem infrastructure and then orchestrates the movement, replication, or syncing of data to wherever you want it to go\u2014limiting any downtime in the process and ensuring your data is secure in flight and structured exactly as you need it in its new home. If deciding where to send data is an issue, they\u2019ll use the analysis of your existing setup to scope the best solution by value for your business.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Backblaze and SoDA Partnership<\/strong> leverages SoDA\u2019s data movement services to unlock Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage\u2019s value for more businesses. The partnership offers the following benefits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A cost analysis of your existing storage infrastructure.<\/li>\n<li>A \u201cdry run\u201d feature that compares existing storage costs to new storage costs and any transfer costs so you \u201cknow before you go.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The ability to define policies for how the data should move and where.<\/li>\n<li>Flexibility to move, copy, sync, or archive data to Backblaze B2.<\/li>\n<li>Migration and management via the Backblaze S3 Compatible API\u2014easily migrate data, and then develop and manage both on-prem and cloud data via the API going forward.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Why Should You Try Backblaze and SoDA?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>First: Backblaze will pay for SoDA\u2019s services for any customer who agrees to migrate 10TB or more and commit to maintaining at least 10TB in Backblaze B2 for a minimum of one year.*<\/p>\n<p>People don\u2019t believe this when we tell them, but we\u2019ll say it again: You won\u2019t receive an invoice for your initial data migration, ever.<\/p>\n<p>If that\u2019s not reason enough to run a proof of concept, here\u2019s more to think about:<\/p>\n<p>Moving a couple of files to the cloud is easy peasy. But what happens if you have billions of files structured in multiple folders across multiple storage locations? You could use legacy tools or command line tools, but all of the scripting and resource management for the data in flight will be on you. You\u2019re smart enough to do it, but if someone else is willing to pay the metaphorical movers, why deal with the hassle?<\/p>\n<p>With SoDA, you do not have to worry about any of it. You define your source locations, define your destination Backblaze B2 bucket and start a transfer. SoDA takes care of the rest. That is truly easy peasy.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>An Example of the Backblaze and SoDA Value Proposition<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>One customer we recently worked with was managing data in their own data center and having issues with reliability and SLAs for current customers. They needed availability at 99.999% as well as cost-effectiveness for future scaling. They identified Backblaze B2 as a provider that checked both boxes and Backblaze recommended SoDA for the move. The customer migrated 1PB of data (over a billion files) into B2 Cloud Storage. Other than making the decision and pointing where the data should go, the customer didn\u2019t have to lift a finger.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Try It Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>If you\u2019re not convinced yet, the SoDA and Backblaze teams are ready to make your life easier at any time. You can schedule a meeting <a href=\"https:\/\/hub.backblaze.com\/backblaze-nab2022?utm_source=partner&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=NAB-2022&amp;utm_content=SoDA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. Or you can check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/help.backblaze.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/4403272931227-Quickstart-Guide-for-SoDA-and-Backblaze-B2-Cloud-Storage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quickstart guide<\/a> to explore the solution today.<\/p>\n<p>*Conditions may apply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn more about Backblaze&#8217;s latest partnership with SoDA, which leverages SoDA&#8217;s data movement services to make it even easier to migrate data to B2 Cloud Storage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":105534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,484],"tags":[468],"class_list":["post-105525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-storage","category-partner-news","tag-b2cloud","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Refreshing Partnership: Backblaze and SoDA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Moving a business\u2019s data can be frustrating and difficult. 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