Backblaze - blog.backblaze.com - Backblaze Blog | The Life of a Cloud Backup Company
General Information:
Latest News:
How to Restore a Single File 17 Jul 2013 | 06:06 am
Over the years, Backblaze online backup has helped our customers restore over 3 billion files. That’s a lot of photos, videos, documents and more. While a majority of our data restores are to “Restore...
A Restory: When one file is all you need 16 Jul 2013 | 01:45 am
For many people genealogy is a nice hobby. They spend a few hours a week chasing down distant relatives and creating family trees. They entertain their family with stories of potential connections to ...
Backblaze Release 2.3.0:Performance Tuned for the Modern PC/Mac 12 Jul 2013 | 02:57 am
Release Date: 7/11/13 Version: 2.3 Auto-Update: No A core tenet of the Backblaze philosophy is that backups have to work seamlessly in the background. As such, we’ve always focused on performance: ...
The Survey Says: Apathy is Winning 28 Jun 2013 | 03:10 am
Why is Yev so sad? Is it because Backup Awareness month is nearly over? No. You see we just got back the results from our annual State of User Data Backup survey and the results made him sad. Let me e...
What Would You Like To Read On The Backblaze Blog? 14 Jun 2013 | 09:33 pm
The Backblaze Blog has been around for quite a while and we’d like to know what you think of it, and what you’d change about it, if anything. Thank you for your feedback, and we hope we can keep bring...
Is the NSA using Backblaze Storage Pods for PRISM surveillance data? Here’s what we know. 10 Jun 2013 | 12:03 am
The leaked presentation about PRISM detailed the ability for the NSA to collect emails, photos, videos, and more from nine companies including Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Apple. There has been a trem...
Backblaze Did NOT Provide Any Data to NSA PRISM 9 Jun 2013 | 11:01 pm
Similar to the statements by Google, Facebook, Apple, and others, I will say that prior to Thursday’s news articles, none of us at Backblaze had heard of the NSA’s PRISM. Backblaze is not even include...
Backblaze Release 2.2 6 Jun 2013 | 03:48 am
Backblaze has a new version out today, and as we’re fond of saying, it’s the best build ever! Here’s the info: Release Date: 6/5/13 Version: 2.2 Auto-Update: No Windows • ZIP file downloader now retri...
Flickr Announces 1TB of Photo Storage. Awesome! 22 May 2013 | 03:15 am
Big news in the technology industry this week as Yahoo’s board authorized the purchase of Tumblr, and Flickr announced 1 terabyte of photo storage. One terabyte of storage. That’s a lot of photos. By ...
As Seen on Ellen 16 May 2013 | 09:44 pm
Sometimes when you first hear an idea you think, “OK, that’s crazy.” That’s what happened when our PR folks came to us in marketing with the idea of having Backblaze be on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. It...
