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Seven years ago, we started on a mission to make storing data astonishingly easy and low-cost so that no one loses their wedding photos, curated music, work files, or any of the other items from their computers. In 2014, I\u2019m proud to say we made a good dent in that mission. Here are a few of the highlights from our 2014 year in review.<\/p>\n

Products<\/h2>\n

We launched an Android app<\/a> to complement our existing iPhone app and increased restore sizes on hard drives to 4TB<\/a> and by two times on flash drives to 128GB<\/a> so our customers could access more of their data faster. Email notifications and Backup Summaries<\/a> ensured they knew their data was safely backed up. Our Refer-A-Friend<\/a> program gave our customers and their friends months of Backblaze for free. Upgrades to support iOS 8, Apple OS X Yosemite, and hundreds of smaller updates to keep improving the service for our customers.<\/p>\n

Community<\/h2>\n

I’m incredibly grateful to the community that has supported us over the years. Another 11 incredible people joined our team to help us scale, plus a few interns (one of whom just won a $100,000 national science award.)<\/p>\n

On Twitter, Facebook, and other digital places, we talked with you virtually and then met many of you in person at Macworld<\/a>, RootsTech<\/a>, and many other events.<\/p>\n

We wrote 75 blog posts, such as those sharing a bunch of data on hard drive reliability<\/a>, the impact of temperature on a hard drive<\/a>, and which hard drive SMART<\/a> stats matter. Since about 1,000,000 of you read these posts, we revamped our blog platform and will strive to continue sharing learning worthy of your time reading.<\/p>\n

Scale<\/h2>\n

The simplicity of the product our customers see hides the wild scale of the systems and operations required to support it. We introduced a new 270TB Storage Pod<\/a> this year, scaled up to store over 100,000,000GB of customer data<\/a>, and opened a huge new 500PB data center<\/a>. Our support team answered their 100,000th<\/sup> ticket. Our customers recovered over six billion files<\/a> that would have been irretrievably lost.<\/p>\n

Recognition<\/h2>\n

Famed consumer product reviewer, Walt Mossberg<\/a>, recommends Backblaze and makes it his personal service. Gizmag calls Backblaze one of the easiest to use<\/a>. And Deloitte ranks Backblaze the 128th<\/sup> fastest growing company<\/a> in North America, with 917% revenue growth over five years.<\/p>\n

Next<\/h2>\n

So with 2015 imminently arriving, where do we go? Keep focusing on making storing data astonishingly easy and low-cost. One of the things I\u2019m incredibly proud of our team for is being able to support a 1000% increase in per-customer data storage while keeping the $5 unlimited price point unchanged. Thus, a lot of what we have planned will continue to be in the background\u2014enhancing our massive cloud storage<\/a> system to scale bigger, be more cost-efficient, and work ever better\u2014so that our customers can continue to store more and more data, easier and easier.<\/p>\n

A huge thank you to all of you: our customers, our community, our partners, and our employees for helping us make this happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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