For 2020, we propose keeping your data in mind when considering any new year’s resolutions. Your data is filled with important memories from years past, treasured pictures, essential documents, and personal projects that you do not want to lose.
Year: 2019
2019—A Year in Review
2019 was a great year at Backblaze and we want to thank all of our friends, family, customers, and blog readers (why aren’t you customers yet?) for making it one to remember!
Backing Up the Death Star: How Cloud Storage Explains the Rise of Skywalker
It’s come to our attention that there’s a movie coming out that some of you are excited about. A few of us around the office might be looking forward to it, too, and it just so happens that we have some special insights.
Introducing: Backblaze Mobile 5.0 with B2 Support
We’re updating our iOS and Android apps! Starting today, B2 users will be able to access data stored in B2 Cloud Storage through Backblaze Mobile.
How Backblaze Buys Hard Drives
As the person on staff ultimately responsible for sourcing hard drives for our data centers in California, Arizona, and the Netherlands, Ariel Ellis knows a thing or two about purchasing petabytes-worth of storage.
Wanted: Director of Marketing Operations
We’re looking for someone who loves to go deep on making marketing technology actually work: process oriented campaign execution, implementing and interpreting actionable analytics, and—ultimately—blending all of the above together to understand and improve the customer journey.
Digital Nomad: Amphibious Filmmaker Chris Aguilar
There are remote filming assignments, and then there is what Chris Aguilar does: Load all of his filming equipment into a waterproof case and swim it miles out to sea.
Backblaze Holiday Gift Guide — 2019
Gift giving time is rapidly approaching and we at Backblaze are always interested to see what cool new things we can give our loved ones.
Top 5 Not-So-Obvious Backup & Archive Tips for Creative Agencies
If you’re tasked with making sure a team’s content is protected every day, as well as guaranteeing that it’s organized and saved for the future, we have some tips to make your job easier.
Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2019
This review looks at the Q3 2019 and lifetime hard drive failure rates of the data drive models currently in operation in our data centers.
The STEMs of Backblaze: How We Got Here
Without Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math education, we would be hard-pressed to find the Backblaze staffers of the future. So we’re celebrating National STEM day (November 8th) in style.
Welcoming the Greenest Member of Support
We’d like to introduce you to the newest member of the Tech Support crew, KC3.
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Backing Up: Startup Edition
At Backblaze, the entrepreneurial spirit is in our DNA: Our founders started out in a cramped Palo Alto apartment, worked two years without pay, and bootstrapped their way to the stable, thriving startup we are today. We’ve even written a series about some of the lessons we learned along the way. But Backblaze is only a sample size of one…
Welcome Pavithra — Sales Engineer
In the last couple of years, we’ve released products that businesses of all sizes love: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage and Backblaze for Business Computer Backup. For customers who want to integrate these products deeply into their workflow but need some support, we’re happy to introduce Pavithra, Sales Engineer! Let’s learn a little more about her,… Continue reading Welcome Pavithra — Sales Engineer
Digital Nomad: Sysadmin Elliott
We continue our series on digital nomads with a profile of Backblaze’s Senior Sysadmin, Elliott, who helps maintain our systems while traveling the country in a 19′ trailer.
SMART Stats Exposed — a Drive Stats Remix
A fan of the Hard Drive Stats posts offers his unique and in-depth analysis of what can be learned from the raw data we collect from our data centers.
Planned Maintenance (Monday October 21st, 5 p.m. — 7 p.m. Pacific)
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The Life and Times of a Backblaze Hard Drive
What’s it like being a hard drive in a Backblaze data center? Andy, our Hard Drive Stats author, tells the story of Zach, a 12 TB drive who has seen it all.