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Backblaze is happy to announce that David Ngo has joined our team as Chief Product Officer, a role responsible for spearheading the company’s global product management function, shaping the strategy, crafting the technology roadmap and overseeing execution.
Backblaze Computer Backup gives you an easy, automatic, centrally-managed solution for backup. And now, IT administrators can take greater control of their endpoint backups—from how employees authenticate to what they can and cannot restore—with the introduction of our new Enterprise Control for Backblaze Computer Backup.
Let’s take a look at the Drive Stats for our fleet of storage servers and see what we can learn.
It’s that time again—cozy season is upon us and your Backblaze authors are eager to share some of their favorite reads. So, whether the weather outside is frightful, or, like at our home office in San Mateo, weird and drizzly, we hope you enjoy!
Everyone has their arsenal of indispensable gadgets and apps they absolutely couldn’t live without, and we had a feeling the folks here at Backblaze would have a lot to say about the subject. We tapped the smart, savvy minds that keep our storage cloud up and running, and discovered a treasure trove of insights into the tech essentials that power their daily lives.
Welcome to our new Backblaze Network Stats series, where we’ll explore the world of network connectivity and how we better serve our customers, partners, and the internet community at large. We hope to share our challenges, initiatives, and engineering perspective as we build the open cloud with our Partners. In this first post, we will explore two issues: how we connect our network with the internet and the distribution of our peering traffic. As we expand this series, we hope to capture and share more metrics and insights.
We’ll review the quarterly and lifetime failure rates of the data drives as of the end of Q3 2023. Along the way, we’ll share our observations and insights on the data presented, and, for the first time ever, we’ll reveal the drive failure rates broken down by data center.
The year is 2023, and the human race has spread across the globe. Nuclear powered flying cars are everywhere, and the first colonies have landed on Mars! [Radio crackles.] Okay, so that isn’t exactly how it’s gone down, but in honor of Halloween, the day celebrates the whimsy of all things being possible, let’s talk about things that used to be science fiction and aren’t anymore.
Backblaze and HYCU, the fastest-growing leader in multi-cloud data protection as a service (DPaaS), are teaming up to provide businesses a complete backup solution for modern workloads with low-cost scalable infrastructure—a must-have for modern cyber resilience needs.
Welcome to the 2023 Mid-Year SSD Edition of the Backblaze Drive Stats review. This report is based on data from the solid state drives (SSDs) we use as storage server boot drives on our Backblaze Cloud Storage platform. In this environment, the drives do much more than boot the storage servers. They also store log files and temporary files produced by the storage server.
