Q6.A 3D look at the Backblaze Storage Pod 6.0 MSPs and service providers get all the advantages above: a simple, affordable and sustainable storage system that directly integrates with Comet Backup. For MSP’s and service providers what are the advantages of using B2 for their storage? Customers no longer need to buy computers, networking, or bandwidth to get multi-Gbps performance for applications like disaster recovery or remote management. Our compute partnerships allow Backblaze customers to rent compute in the cloud, close enough to B2 Cloud Storage to get high performance, low latency access to the data. ![]() Recently you announced ‘Compute Partnerships’ with Packet and ServerCentral for B2, what are the benefits of this partnership? ![]() Details of the latest storage pod, version 6.0 is here.įinally, one other very popular thing we do is publish hard drive stats about the 83k+ drives we have spinning in our data center. The Backblaze Vault architecture is made up of storage pods that have been designed internally at Backblaze and deployed in our data center. This article describes how the data is distributed over 20 storage pods, how those storage pods are isolated from each other, how our implementation of the Reed-Solomon Erasure coding algorithm is used, how we handle “silent” data corruption, scaling, availability and finally durability. Can you tell us a bit about B2’s storage configuration and technology?īackblaze stores all files uploaded using the Backblaze Vault architecture, which is described here. Backblaze proves it is financially secure. Your landlord must be financially secure so your building isn’t foreclosed on and you don’t get locked out. Choosing a cloud storage provider is a bit like choosing an apartment to rent. From building our own storage servers, to building our own storage software and detailing the costs of our business. Backblaze has never raised significant investment capital, preferring to build a sustainable business using customer revenue and being very open about how the service is fairly priced. Sustainable: Backblaze has been in business for 12 years and manages 700 PB of data for over 500,000 customers. Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage is 1/4 the price of Amazon S3 for storage and 1/9th the price for downloads. Uploads are completely free while downloads are only $0.01 per GB. Pricing: is meant to be affordable: storage is $0.005 per GB/Month or roughly $5/TB/month. And, getting started only takes a few minutes. You pay only for what you use - there are no minimum storage amounts, minimum storage days, retention periods or other fine print. We don’t have complicated storage tiers that are hard to understand. Accessing your account via our website is easy. Simplicity: everything about B2 is designed to be simple to use. We’re seeing quite a bit of competition in the cloud storage space, how does B2 set itself apart?īackblaze sets itself apart in three ways: Simplicity, Price and Sustainability. Files are available for uploading or downloading at any time, either through the Backblaze website, hundreds of third party integrations, including Comet Backup, or via the B2 API. For those people living under a rock, can you give us a quick intro to Backblaze B2?īackblaze B2 is a cloud storage service for data storage. Since then we've heard nothing but love from their users about what they do and with the most recent announcement of securing a $15m equipment lease line to help with expansion, we put a bunch of questions to Partner Program Manager James Fleishman. ![]() One of the earliest cloud storage companies we included support for was Backblaze B2 storage.
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