Tag: Backblaze
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Heard Around Backblaze
Backblaze Blog – 6.14.19 (6.13.19) Like any tech company, all of us at Backblaze pay attention to the news and what’s happening in Silicon Valley and other tech communities. We comment on items posted to Slack, debate the latest items sent around via email, or discuss topics around lunchroom tables and in the snack rooms.…
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How PagerDuty Uses Cloud Backup to Protect Against Data Disasters
Backblaze Blog – 4.12.19 (4.11.19) An alert from PagerDuty sets off alarm bells for anyone in IT. Alerts might signify that a disk is nearly full or has failed entirely. Although unpleasant and imminently critical, hard drive failures come as no surprise to IT Managers. They are prepared for those alerts and have likely seen…
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3-2-1 Backup Best Practices Using the Cloud
Backblaze Blog – 4.10.19 (4.9.19) Whether you’re a hobbyist or a professional photographer or videographer, employing a 3-2-1 backup strategy for your valuable photos and videos is critical. A good backup strategy can protect you from accidental or incidental data loss and make sure your working or archived files are available when you need them.…
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Our Blog Redesign — Coming Soon!
Backblaze Blog – 3.26.19 (3.21.19) Software user experience design (UX) that stands still is actually moving backwards as the world around it evolves. That applies to apps and webpages, including blogs. Backblaze’s blog launched in 2008 with a short post by our founder, Gleb Budman, about how a billion PCs are at risk of losing data.…
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Mozy Backup End of Life: What Can You Do to Keep Your Files Safe
Backblaze Blog – 3.15.19 (3.13.19) Around this time last year, we all learned that Carbonite was acquiring Mozy from Dell Inc. That deal closed on March 19, 2018 for $145 million. One year later, we’ve seen reports that Mozy users will be forced to update to the Carbonite service. We’re always sad to see a competitor exit…
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Keep Your Media Data Safe With These 5 Best Practices
Backblaze Blog – 2.28.19 (2.26.19) Whether you’re working with video, photo, audio, or other data, preserving the security of your data has to be at the top of your priority list. Data security might sound like a challenging proposition, but by following just a handful of guidelines it becomes a straightforward and easily accomplished task.…
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SSD 101: How Reliable are SSDs?
Backblaze Blog – 2.26.19 (2.21.19) What’s not to love about solid state drives (SSDs)? They are faster than conventional hard disk drives (HDDs), more compact, have no moving parts, are immune to magnetic fields, and can withstand more shocks and vibration than conventional magnetic platter disks. And, they are becoming available in larger and larger…
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2018
Backblaze Blog – 1.24.19 (1.22.19) As of December 31, 2018, we had 106,919 spinning hard drives. Of that number, there were 1,965 boot drives and 104,954 data drives. This review looks at the hard drive failure rates for the data drive models in operation in our data centers. In addition, we’ll take a look at…
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Backblaze Cloud Backup v6.0: Larger Longer Faster Better
Backblaze Blog – 1.22.19 (1.17.19) Announcing Backblaze Cloud Backup 6.0: The Larger Longer Faster Better Release! This release for consumers and businesses brings a lot of new functionality to Backblaze Cloud Backup: Restore by Mail drives that are twice the size, archiving with Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, up to 50% faster backups, and a network blocklist feature…
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2018 in the Rear View Mirror
Backblaze Blog – 12.19.18 (12.18.18) Thank you to all of our customers and friends; you’ve made 2018 a great year for Backblaze. Here’s a quick look at what we’ve been up to in the past year. Read more: 2018 in the Rear View Mirror