Mac-powered enterprises are becoming increasingly common, especially when security is a concern. As a result, so are Mac-native mobile device management (MDM) tools. Let’s talk about some best practices for IT admins.
Announcing Support for IPv6
If you’re rocking IPv6 or it’s on your roadmap, Backblaze is now phasing in IPv6 support for the S3 compatible API.
How to Zip Files with the Python S3fs Library + Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
A customer question inspires adventures in the Python S3fs library to build an application for creating .zip files from Backblaze B2.
Backblaze Open Sources Boardwalk Workflow Engine for Ansible
Read about how to orchestrate Ansible to help automate rolling maintenance jobs like kernel and OS upgrades across your production environment.
What Is Cyber Insurance?
As the cost of ransomware attacks has gone up across the board, industry experts have seen increasing demand for cyber insurance. Let’s talk about what you need to know to decide if cyber insurance is right for your business.
Do More with Backblaze B2: A Tour of the Backblaze GitHub Repositories
Check out the Backblaze GitHub for a whole slew of useful, open source tools built on Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage.
Three Surprising Factors that Affect Cloud Performance
There are several factors that can affect your performance metrics when working in the cloud. Here are a few of the surprising ones.
Five Tips for Creating a Predictable Cloud Storage Budget
Cloud storage pricing models can be tricky—but they don’t have to be. Here are some tips for helping you estimate your cloud storage budget.
What Are Software Containers?
Learn more about what containers are, how they’re used in AI and other workloads, and how cloud storage works together with containerized applications.
Backblaze Network Stats: Ingress Trends and What They Tell Us About Backup Behaviors
Ingress trends tell us that humans are creatures of habit.
Command Like a Pro with New Backblaze B2 CLI Enhancements
Check out the latest enhancements to the Backblaze B2 CLI in version 4.1.0.
Welcoming Chief Financial Officer Marc Suidan to Backblaze
Marc Suidan joins Backblaze as chief financial officer. Welcome, Marc!
How to Build Your Own LLM with Backblaze B2 + Jupyter Notebook
We didn’t use an LLM to write this, but we did figure out how to build one on Backblaze B2.
Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2024
Read the Q2 2024 Drive Stats Report, with the latest on annualized failure rates and a look into measuring drive consistency over time.
Proper Address: IPv4 vs. IPv6
Any time you want to send and receive data, be it on the internet or in real life, you have to have an address. Since 1980, the internet protocol (IP) that governs such things has been IPv4, and it’s now switching to IPv6. Why?
Automate Your Data Workflows with Backblaze B2 Event Notifications
Announcing Backblaze Event Notifications, designed to give businesses the freedom to build automated workloads across the different best-of-breed cloud platforms. Available today in private preview.
How to Future-Proof Your Archives: File Formats That Stand the Test of Time
Digital archives have some interesting challenges, not least of which is making sure our future counterparts can open the files we’ve saved. Read on to get some tips and tools to future-proof your archive.
What Do Teachers, Parents, and Students Have in Common? The Need to Back Up
Whether you’re an educator or a student, data loss can be devastating in an educational environment. Here are all the benefits of backing up, and how to talk to your community and admins about how and why to back up your data.