{"id":75563,"date":"2017-04-20T07:30:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T14:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/?p=75563"},"modified":"2025-12-12T14:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:48:07","slug":"backblaze-turns-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/backblaze-turns-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Steel to Tin: The First 10 Years of Backblaze"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today Backblaze celebrates turning 10 years old. Tin is the traditional gift for a 10 year wedding anniversary, a sign of strength and flexibility. Getting to this point took not only the steel to make the servers, but tin as well.<\/p>\n

How things have changed:<\/p>\n

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<\/th>\n<\/th>\n2007<\/th>\n2017<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Team<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\nFive Founders in a Palo Alto apartment<\/td>\n55 employees around the country<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Storage<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\nHard drives strung together<\/td>\n60-drive, tool-less Storage Pods<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Drives<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\n1TB drives<\/td>\n8TB and 10TB drives<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Redundancy<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\nRAID redundancy<\/td>\n20-Storage Pod Vault redundancy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Storage<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\n45TB of total stored customer data<\/td>\nOver 300,000TB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Customers<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\nA few friends as customers<\/td>\nHundreds of thousands across 125 countries<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Files Saved<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\nOne customer’s data restored (mine)<\/td>\n20 billion+ files restored<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Business Lines<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\nBackblaze Computer Backup<\/a><\/td>\nComputer Backup<\/a>, Backblaze Business Backup<\/a>, and Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Financials<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\n$0 revenue<\/td>\nMillions in revenue and profitable<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mission<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\nMake storing data astonishingly easy and low-cost<\/td>\nMake storing data astonishingly easy and low-cost<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

From Our Humble Beginnings in 2007:<\/b><\/p>\n

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To Over 300PB in 2017:<\/b><\/p>\n

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Someone recently asked me, “Does Backblaze look now the way you imagined it would 10 years ago?” The honest answer? I had never imagined what it would like in ten years; when trying to figure out how to even get to market, that timespan wasn’t even on my radar. When we were filming our first video, we were more concerned with finding our first customer than planning our first birthday.<\/p>\n