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Backblaze Computer Backup 9.0 is available, and restoring your files is about to get a whole lot easier.
As of today, Drive Stats is still one of the only public datasets about drive usage, has been cited 150+ times by Google Scholar, and always sparks lively conversation, whether it’s at a conference, in the comments section, or in one of the quarterly Backblaze Engineering Week presentations. Let’s dive down the Drive Stats rabbit hole together.
Today, we’re excited to announce an expanded partnership with Qencode, a media services platform that enables users to build powerful video solutions, including solutions to the challenges of transcoding, live streaming, and media storage. The expanded partnership embeds the Backblaze Partner API within the Qencode platform, making it frictionless for users to add cloud storage to their media production workflows.
Backblaze is happy to announce that Chris Opat has joined our team as senior vice president of cloud operations. Chris will oversee the strategy and operations of the Backblaze global cloud storage platform.
Today, we’ll focus on the 241,297 data drives under management as we review their quarterly and lifetime failure rates as of the end of Q2 2023. Along the way, we’ll share our observations and insights on the data presented, tell you about some additional data fields we are now including and more.
Each June, we partner with The Harris Poll to gauge the state of backups in the United States, by asking the simple question: “How often do you back up all the data on your computer?” Here are the results from the 2023 survey!
Today, we’re sharing news of a new disaster recovery service built on Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage that’s aimed to help businesses restore faster and more affordably: Continuity Centers’ Cloud Instant Business Recovery (Cloud IBR) which instantly recovers Veeam backups from the Backblaze B2 Storage Cloud.
Today, we’ll focus on the 237,278 data drives under management as we review their quarterly and lifetime failure rates as of the end of Q1 2023. We also dig into the topic of average age of failed hard drives by drive size, model, and more. Along the way, we’ll share our observations and insights on the data presented.
Hey, we can drive! (Pun absolutely intended.) Some days it’s hard to believe that what started as a “crazy” dream in a one-bedroom apartment has evolved into what we’re celebrating today—16 years of blazing on (pun, ahem, also intended).
Some stories from behind the scenes of Drive Stats over the past 10 years!
