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Ransomware Prevention: How to Deal With the Growing Threat

To better understand innovative ways that you can protect business data, we invite you to attend our Ransomware: Prevention and Survival webinar on July 17, 2019. You can sign-up using the link in the post.

Wanted: Senior Director of Product Marketing

We’re looking for a Product Marketing leader who understands and loves focusing on the customer.

What’s the Diff: Durability vs Availability

What does it mean when a storage vendor quotes a number for data durability or availability? We sort out the differences between the terms and what you should be looking for in reliable cloud storage.

Backblaze Vaults: Zettabyte-Scale Cloud Storage Architecture

Backblaze introduced our Vault architecture in 2015. It’s four years later and Vaults still provide the foundation for Backblaze’s highly durable and cost-efficient cloud storage.

Welcome John — Senior Software Engineer

As the Backblaze team and products continue to expand we found that we needed more engineers to help us keep up with existing systems and build out news ones (and we’re always hiring, by the way). To help us, we hired a veteran from Minneapolis, John, to join our team as a senior software engineer.… Continue reading Welcome John — Senior Software Engineer

What to Do About the LTO-8 Tape Shortage and LTO-6 Capacity

It’s been 18 months since LTO-8 was announced and where can you purchase tape? Perhaps it’s time to consider a better storage strategy that won’t leave you high and dry.

An Introduction to NAS for Photo & Video Production

The camera might be firmly entrenched at the top of the list of essential equipment for photographers and videographers, but a contender for next on the list has to be network-attached storage.

The Profound Benefits of Cloud Collaboration for Business Users

The news from Apple’s annual WWDC highlights high-end desktop computing, but it’s laptop computers and the cloud that are driving business and creative collaboration.

Wanted: Marketing Associate

“You know what’s worth every. single. penny? @backblaze #lifesaver” Andrei P. (Backblaze customer) Are you interested in joining a veteran marketing team responsible for bringing almost 30 million page views to our website and over three million page views to our blog each year? A team that helps tell the tales behind the 40 billion… Continue reading Wanted: Marketing Associate

These Aren’t Your Ordinary Data Centers

Most of us likely think of data centers as rather predictable places with big buildings full of racks, cables, cooling, and other equipment, but we learned that there are exceptions to this stereotype that literally are out of this world.

What’s the Diff: Sync vs Backup vs Storage

The cloud and the services it provides can cause confusion for users. In this post, we try to untangle the terms and help you understand the difference between sync, backup, and storage, and which service is best for your needs.

A Few of Our Favorite Customer Thank You Notes and Stories

Handwritten thank you notes might seem a little out of place in our digital age, but it makes our day whenever we receive one.

Simplify Your Workflow: The New B2 Copy File Function Is Now in Public Beta

One of the most requested developer features for B2, copy file, is now in beta and ready for you to try out.

Who We Are & What We Do

We recently celebrated our 12-year anniversary as a company so we thought it’d be a great time to make a video showing who we are and what kind of company we’ve built.

Connect Veeam to the B2 Cloud Using Morro Data CloudNAS

We continue our Veeam/B2 series with a how-to on using Veeam to back up VMs to the Backblaze B2 Cloud using Morro Data’s CloudNAS. This combination lets you archive all backups to B2 while keeping the most recent backups on premises for fast recovery.