Backblaze vs. IDrive

Backblaze has been building storage infrastructure from the ground up since 2007. We operate at exabyte scale, serve over 500,000 customers, and have been a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: BLZE) since 2021. Our mission is to make customers unstoppable by solving their toughest storage challenges, and that means removing the barriers of lock-in, complexity, and cost. While IDrive e2 offers competitive pricing, Backblaze B2 delivers the proven enterprise-grade reliability, transparent economics, and high performance that growing businesses need.

Yes, Backblaze B2 integrates seamlessly with thousands of hardware and software tools, likely including those you use in your workflow. Some examples of our Alliance Partners are Veeam, MSP360, Arq, rclone, Commvault, Veritas, iconik, LucidLink, Synology, Fastly, and Vultr. You can find a more extensive list of tested integrations here; and many more will work seamlessly with Backblaze B2 given its S3 compatibility.

The Backblaze B2 Storage Cloud is architected and designed with data security in mind. The key pillars of our security framework are enterprise-grade access management security, data storage security, and architecture & physical security. These include a wide range of administrative and technical controls, implemented at the enterprise, business process, and system levels, and attestations—so whether you’re seeking a platform designed to 11 nines of durability, encryption options, immutability, SOC 2 compliance, data replication, or just peace of mind, Backblaze is built for you.

All Backblaze B2 customers receive free support that includes documentation, knowledge base articles, and email & chat support. B2 Reserve capacity bundle customers automatically receive premium support with a 4 business-hour response time SLA; pay-as-you-go service customers can purchase premium support for personalized assistance and/or a tighter response SLA–details here.