{"id":1357,"date":"2012-05-15T16:57:43","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T23:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2025-12-12T13:43:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T21:43:18","slug":"behind-backblaze-scaling-big-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/behind-backblaze-scaling-big-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind Backblaze: Scaling Big Storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-90754\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tim_behind_backblaze.jpg\" alt=\"Behind Backblaze\" width=\"1440\" height=\"820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tim_behind_backblaze.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tim_behind_backblaze-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tim_behind_backblaze-1024x583.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tim_behind_backblaze-768x437.jpg 768w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tim_behind_backblaze-560x319.jpg 560w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tim_behind_backblaze-220x125.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"bzdropcap\">Many of you enjoyed the Behind Backblaze Part 1 video. Here\u2019s Part 2\u2014Behind Backblaze: Scaling Big Storage, which takes a look at our <a href=\"\/blog\/day-life-datacenter-part\/\">datacenter<\/a> and the people behind it that make sure your data is safe and secure with Backblaze.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Behind Backblaze (Part 2) Big Storage\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LQPVBnqzNu0?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For those of you who think this kind of stuff is really cool, <a href=\"\/blog\/cloud-computing-superheroes-wanted\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Backblaze has job openings in our operations group<\/a> for a Director of Web Services, a Systems Administrator and a <a href=\"\/blog\/help-wanted-data-center-technician\/\">Data Center Technician<\/a>. 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For those of you who think this kind of stuff is really cool, Backblaze has&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/behind-backblaze-scaling-big-storage\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Behind Backblaze: Scaling Big Storage<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":90754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[131,65],"tags":[469],"class_list":["post-1357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-backblaze-bits","category-behind-backblaze","tag-consumerbackup","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Behind Backblaze: How We&#039;re Scaling Big Storage for the Cloud<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Many of you enjoyed the Behind Backblaze Part 1 video. 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