Two key metrics for measuring cloud storage performance are durability and availability. We look at what they are and why they are important.| Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup
Nearly one of two people (46%) lose data every year according to a study of Backblaze customers. Shocking? It surprised me at first glance, but then I dug| Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup
Today a new storage option for Amazon S3 has been launched: Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS). This new storage option enables customers to reduce their costs by storing non-critical, reproducible data at lower levels of redundancy. This has been an option that customers have been asking us about for some time so we are really pleased to be able to offer this alternative storage option now. Durability in Amazon S3| All Things Distributed
Have you ever thought about all the awful, terrible things that can happen to a hard drive? And what are they, exactly?| Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup
It has been 10 years since Backblaze introduced our Storage Pod. A lot has changed over the years. We take a look back and get a peek at the future.| Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup
Backblaze Vaults are not only incredibly durable, scalable, and performant, but they dramatically improve availability and operability.| Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup
Take a whimsical look at how a hard drive "Zach" gets put to use in Backblaze's cloud storage data center.| Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup
We followed up on our initial drive life study in 2013 with data from over 200,000 disk drives. Read this post to see the latest from our reporting on the life expectancy of the drives in our data centers.| Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup
Today we are releasing our latest open-source project: Backblaze Reed-Solomon Java library for erasure coding. Click for details on how to use and download.| Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup
