{"id":55041,"date":"2016-04-20T09:11:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T16:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/?p=55041"},"modified":"2025-07-21T14:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T21:06:10","slug":"happy-9th-birthday-backblaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/happy-9th-birthday-backblaze\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Ninth Birthday Backblaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/blog-happy-birthday-backblaze.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55061 noopener noreferrer\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-mzTfuJKr\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55061\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/blog-happy-birthday-backblaze.jpg\" alt=\"Happy Birthday Backblaze\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/blog-happy-birthday-backblaze.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/blog-happy-birthday-backblaze-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/blog-happy-birthday-backblaze-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/blog-happy-birthday-backblaze-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/blog-happy-birthday-backblaze-730x411.jpg 730w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/blog-happy-birthday-backblaze-560x315.jpg 560w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/blog-happy-birthday-backblaze-220x124.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"bzdropcap\">Backblaze turns nine today! That\u2019s right, back on April 20<sup>th<\/sup>, 2007, Backblaze was officially incorporated in Delaware. We wrote about our <a href=\"\/blog\/backblaze-turns-5-a-startup-grows-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fifth birthday<\/a> back in 2012, but we wanted to take a moment and look back at the last four years. We\u2019ve been pretty busy.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last four years:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Backblaze team has grown by over 240%, and we\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/company\/jobs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">still hiring<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Our hard <a href=\"\/blog\/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q3-2019\/\">drive stats<\/a> continue to be incredibly popular.<\/li>\n<li>We\u2019ve increased the number of customer files we\u2019ve restored by 10 times, from 1.2 billion to over 12 billion.<\/li>\n<li>We\u2019ve increased the amount of customer data we store by 10 times from 20 <a href=\"\/blog\/petabytes-on-a-budget-10-years-and-counting\/\">petabytes<\/a> to over 200 <a href=\"\/blog\/150-petabytes-of-cloud-storage\/\">petabytes<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/mobile.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Backblaze mobile<\/a> apps made their debut for iOS and Android.<\/li>\n<li>We\u2019ve graced the Deloitte Fast 500 list with our presence\u2014twice.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/vault-cloud-storage-architecture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Backblaze Vaults<\/a> launched and continue to revolutionize storage.<\/li>\n<li>Embracing our open-source roots, we\u2019ve released even more secret sauce with <a href=\"\/blog\/reed-solomon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reed-Solomon erasure coding<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>We continued to deliver storage innovation to the open-source community by delivering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/cloud-storage\/resources\/storage-pod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Storage Pod<\/a> versions 3.0, 4.0, 4.5, and 5.0.<\/li>\n<li>We launched Backblaze <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/b2\/sign-up.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> B2 Cloud Storage<\/a>, the lowest cost cloud storage on the planet to complement our Backblaze Personal Backup and Backblaze <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/cloud-backup\/pricing\">Business Backup<\/a> products. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/catblaze.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Catblaze<\/a> launched shortly thereafter on<a href=\"\/blog\/an-april-1st-post\/\"> April 1st,<\/a> 2016.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We\u2019ve got a lot of cool projects coming down the pipe, and we couldn\u2019t be more excited to share them with you, but they\u2019ll have to wait. On this April 20<sup>th<\/sup>, our birthday, even though your friends probably aren&#8217;t idiots, listen to our friend <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SwiftOnSecurity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SecuriTay<\/a> and remind them to back up their machines:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tell your stoner friends &quot;420 backblaze it&quot; because you know those idiots aren&#39;t remembering to back up manually<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SwiftOnWinningNuclearWar (@SwiftOnSecurity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SwiftOnSecurity\/status\/681280238127460352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 28, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n#420BackblazeIt #GetCloudy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backblaze turns 9 today! 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