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Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage 1.0 is out of beta and available for organizations large and small to reliably, yet inexpensively, store their data in the cloud. Backblaze B2 not only provides cloud storage<\/a> at one-fourth the cost of leading providers, it also comes with a 99.9% service-level agreement (SLA), free and premium support options, and a growing list of partners who have created integrations to sync, back up, or archive data to the Backblaze B2 cloud.<\/p>\n The Backblaze B2 beta was announced last September, and the response was immediate and enormous as over 15,000 developers, IT personnel, and other interested parties signed up to be part of our closed beta program. In December, Backblaze opened the beta to the public, and another 15,000 users joined in. All in all, a great starting point.<\/p>\n In reality, the foundation for B2 Cloud Storage goes back much further than last September. It starts nearly seven years ago when we introduced the world to our Backblaze Storage Pod<\/a> in our \u201cPetabytes on a Budget\u201d post. Out of our own need to deliver unlimited cloud<\/a> backup for just $5\/month to the market, we designed and built a different kind of cloud storage server<\/a> that was high density and amazingly low cost.<\/p>\n Since then, we\u2019ve continued to innovate by delivering Storage Pods 2, 3, 4, 4.5, 5, and now Storage Pod 6 with 60 drives, introducing highly scalable storage with Backblaze Vaults<\/a>, writing our own Reed-Solomon<\/a> erasure coding library, designing our own load balancing<\/a>, and more.<\/p>\n These innovations are part of what has enabled Backblaze to store over 250 petabytes of data and helped us recover over 12 billion files. This is the foundation on which Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage<\/a> 1.0 is built.<\/p>\n The number of integrations with Backblaze B2 grows daily as companies discover how easy it is to build Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage into their products and services. These companies know that by providing Backblaze B2 as a cloud storage option, they are dramatically lowering the cost of cloud<\/a> storage for their customers and in turn, encouraging potential customers to choose their solution.<\/p>\n \u201cI was pleased by how elegant and simple, yet powerful the Backblaze B2 developers interface (API) is.\u2026The biggest open issue remaining\u2014and a quite happy problem indeed\u2014is to figure out new and exciting ways to leverage that power for cool new features in the future for NeoFinder on both Mac and iOS platforms.\u201d Norbert M. Doerner, developer of NeoFinder<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Here are a few of the B2 Cloud Storage integrations to date.<\/p>\n Synology network attached storage<\/a> (NAS) users will be able to use the Cloud Sync<\/a> feature on their Synology NAS system to sync folders on their Synology NAS device with Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage<\/a>. Once they\u2019ve installed the 2.1.0 Cloud Sync package to their system, they can select Backblaze B2 as their cloud destination and begin saving up to 75% in storage costs versus other providers. Here a quick video on how easy it is to set this up:<\/p>\nBackblaze B2\u2014Built on a Foundation of Technological Innovation<\/h2>\n
Integrations for the SMB and the Enterprise<\/h3>\n
Synology NAS: Sync and Save<\/b><\/h4>\n