Year: 2009

VW Takes Backblaze Storage Pod for a Ride

You may not be familiar with the name Crispin Porter + Bogusky, but you’re probably familiar with their work. The firm, which was named U.S. Agency of the Year by Adweek last year, created “The King” and “Whopper Freakout” campaigns for Burger King; the Windows Mojave, Jerry Seinfeld/Bill Gates, and “I’m a PC” campaigns for… Continue reading VW Takes Backblaze Storage Pod for a Ride

Backblaze Release 1.0.4

Backblaze has made a new release available and all users are scheduled to be automatically upgraded over the next two weeks. Below are the enhancements in this release: Release Date: 12/4/09 Version: 1.0.4 Auto-Update: All Users All Binaries Are Signed (Windows) The Windows and Mac installers has always been signed and all Mac binaries have… Continue reading Backblaze Release 1.0.4

The Future of the Data Center Is Green: Takeaways From the WiredRE Data Center Event

What do the following have in common: Google providing search, Coca-Cola operating its systems to track inventory, and Backblaze backing up your data? The computers that handle all of this live in data centers. And those data centers use power—lots of it. In the U.S. alone there are over 20,000 data centers—each of which houses… Continue reading The Future of the Data Center Is Green: Takeaways From the WiredRE Data Center Event

Outside Dreamforce: An Insider’s Guide

Are you in San Francisco for Salesforce’s Dreamforce event? Three days, 15,000 people, booming sounds booths, light shows, and lots of clouds—both the real and virtual type. Salesforce provides you plenty of guidance about what to do at Dreamforce. But what should you do when you are outside of Dreamforce? You could go to the… Continue reading Outside Dreamforce: An Insider’s Guide

The NSA Might Want Some Backblaze Storage Pods

CrunchGear published that the National Security Agency (NSA) is forecasting it may need yottabytes of storage to keep all of its surveillance data by 2015. What is a yottabyte? 1000 gigabytes = 1 terabyte 1000 terabytes = 1 petabyte 1000 petabytes = 1 exabyte 1000 exabytes = 1 zettabyte 1000 zettabyte = 1 yottabyte In… Continue reading The NSA Might Want Some Backblaze Storage Pods

Backblaze Business Backup Launches

Ever since Backblaze launched, providing incredibly easy, unlimited online backup for individual users, companies have said, “Hey, but we have laptops and desktops that need to be backed up too!” To help these companies, this week we launched Backblaze Business Backup, making available the same $50 per year per computer unlimited backup. What Is Backblaze… Continue reading Backblaze Business Backup Launches

User Builds “Extreme Media Server” Based on a Backblaze Storage Pod

Don Honabach has the honor of being the first person to successfully build his own Backblaze Storage Pod. (At least the first we know about.) With four servers running at home for media storage, Don was using a fair bit of power (and probably generating a lot of heat and noise and taking up space.)… Continue reading User Builds “Extreme Media Server” Based on a Backblaze Storage Pod

Snow Leopard Bug Deletes Data

Have you upgraded to Snow Leopard? Users on Apple’s forums are reporting a bug that deletes all user data if someone mistakenly logs into the “Guest” account. This issue was originally reported about a month ago on Cnet’s MacFixIt but today is being mentioned across the web as more people are being bitten by the… Continue reading Snow Leopard Bug Deletes Data

Backblaze Storage Pod: Vendors, Tips, and Tricks

Last month’s blog post about building our Backblaze Storage Pods generated a ton of interest and many people are building their own Pods! Our post also generated a ton of questions so, below we answer the common ones and provide more details about where to get components. Detailed Backblaze Storage Pod Parts and Vendor List… Continue reading Backblaze Storage Pod: Vendors, Tips, and Tricks

Backblaze Release 1.0.3

Backblaze has made a new release available and all users are scheduled to be automatically upgraded over the next two weeks. Below are the enhancements in this release: Release Date: 6/8/09 Windows Version: 1.0.3.209 Mac Version: 1.0.3.210 Auto-Update: All Users Enhanced Bandwidth Utilization Streamlined metadata uploads to reduce bandwidth usage and enhance backup speed. Enhanced… Continue reading Backblaze Release 1.0.3

Petabytes on a Budget: How to Build Cheap Cloud Storage

To get the latest updates and information on ALL of the Storage Pod versions: Click Here. When we started Backblaze, our goal was to provide unlimited computer backup for $5 a month, so we had to figure out how to store hundreds of petabytes of customer data in a reliable, scalable way—and keep our costs… Continue reading Petabytes on a Budget: How to Build Cheap Cloud Storage

Photographer’s Portfolio Saved by Backblaze

Thousands of photographers use Backblaze to protect their digital photos, in part due to the recommendation of some great photo sites such as Photojojo, Stuck in Customs, Digital Composting, TWIP, NSLog(); and many others. This week one of our customers sent us a note to show some of the 400GB of photos recovered from Backblaze… Continue reading Photographer’s Portfolio Saved by Backblaze

Backblaze Release 1.0.1.190 and 1.0.1.191

Backblaze has made a new release available. Users will start being automatically upgraded later this week. Below are the enhancements in this release: Release Date: 8/31/09 Windows Version: 1.0.1.191 Mac Version: 1.0.1.190 Auto-Update: All Users Complete Snow Leopard Support (Mac) Re-written installer to support Snow Leopard security model. 64-bit support for higher performance. Backblaze Preference… Continue reading Backblaze Release 1.0.1.190 and 1.0.1.191

Backups in Baghdad: Protecting Data Around the World

“Jason,” not his real name, is an electrical engineer contracting for the military. I wanted to share the comments and photos he sent us about his experience with Backblaze in Baghdad: My being here is a once in a lifetime opportunity, and I don’t want something like a hard drive failure to sour it.  My… Continue reading Backups in Baghdad: Protecting Data Around the World

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