Tag: Backblaze
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Building a Multiregion Origin Store With Backblaze B2 + Fastly Compute@Edge
Backblaze Blog – 3.2.22 B2 Cloud Storage customers have long leveraged our partner Fastly’s Deliver@Edge CDN as an essential component of a modern, scalable web architecture. Complementing Deliver@Edge, Compute@Edge is a serverless computing environment built on the same caching platform to provide a general-purpose compute layer between the cloud and end users. Today, we’re excited to celebrate…
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2021 and Beyond: Backblaze’s Predictions for the Coming Year
Backblaze Blog – 1.3.21 (12.31.21) The cloud computing industry had a big year in 2021. But the past year also saw significant challenges—supply chain shortages, continued shifts in work life, continued natural disasters, and disruptive ransomware attacks, not to mention an ongoing global pandemic. Source: 2021 and Beyond: Backblaze’s Predictions for the Coming Year
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How Interns Can Help Your Business and the World
Backblaze Blog – 12.22.21 My name is Jason Knight and I lead the Growth team here at Backblaze. There are certain annual events you experience working in tech: fiscal year budgeting, conferences, and when HR asks if you want summer interns, and you say “No.” Source: How Interns Can Help Your Business and the World
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2020
Backblaze Blog – 1.29.21 (1.26.21) In 2020, Backblaze added 39,792 hard drives and as of December 31, 2020 we had 165,530 drives under management. Of that number, there were 3,000 boot drives and 162,530 data drives. We will discuss the boot drives later in this report, but first we’ll focus on the hard drive failure…
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How to Virtually Onboard New Hires
Backblaze Blog – 5.28.20 (5.26.20) Over the past few months, the world has been grappling with a pandemic which has unfortunately led to layoffs by some organizations and has resulted in others finding alternate ways to augment their team distribution, hiring, and onboarding. Both situations are challenging, logistically and emotionally. Source: How to Virtually Onboard New Hires
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A Beginner’s Guide to External Hard Drives
Backblaze Blog – 5.1.20 (4.28.20) the beginning of this month, I received a frantic phone call from a long time friend who teaches ninth grade English. She had just been given the news that she would have to start teaching from home. Her school district gave out Zoom accounts and external hard drives to some…
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Metadata: Your File’s Hidden DNA and You
Backblaze Blog – 2.6.20 The files you use every day on your Mac or PC, whether at home or at work, carry around a slew of hidden data that can be incredibly useful to you… or problematically revealing to others. For example, the image in the header reveals latitude and longitude details in an iPhone…
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Why Having a Business Backup Strategy is Critical for Startups
Backblaze Blog – 10.30.19 (10.29.19) 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…
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4 Critical Tips and Tricks to Be a Successful Digital Nomad
Backblaze Blog – 10.10.19 The open road has always held an allure of adventure and rebellion. Whether perched on an Indian or Harley-Davidson motorcycle, laid back in an old Chevy truck or a VW van, or sailing a sloop downwind to French Polynesia, who hasn’t daydreamed about breaking away from the daily slog? Source: 4…
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More People Than Ever Backing Up According to Our Survey
Backblaze Blog – 7.10.19 (7.9.19) For the past twelve years we’ve conducted an annual poll asking people the simple question, “How often do you backup all the data on your computer?” and published the results here on the blog. In 2009 we decided to make this an annual event and declared June to be Backup Awareness…