Backblaze

Backblaze, Inc. is an American cloud storage and data backup company based in San Mateo, California. It was founded in 2007 by Gleb Budman and others. Its two main products are their B2 Cloud Storage and Computer Backup services, targeted at both business and personal markets.

History
Backblaze was established in 2007 in San Mateo, California. In 2008, the company released online backup services to support PCs running Apple's macOS and Microsoft Windows.

In October 2021, Backblaze filed to go public on the Nasdaq under the symbol BLZE. In November, the company launched its public IPO.

Backblaze and Catalogic, a data protection vendor, announced their partnership in March 2022.

Since 2013, Backblaze has reported quarterly reliability statistics for its data center hard drives, showing annual failure rates for each model.

Cloud backup
Backblaze's first product was its computer backup, offering users to back up their computer data continuously and automatically with a monthly subscription service.

Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
In September 2015, Backblaze launched a new product, B2 Cloud Storage. Being an infrastructure as a service (IaaS), it is targeted at software integration for different kinds of businesses.

In May 2020, Backblaze released an Amazon S3-compatible API, allowing customers to use existing tools and applications with B2 Cloud Storage without rewriting them. In May 2022, Backblaze released its cloud replication services, which allow customers to back up and store data in a location that is geographically separate from the data's primary location.

Data centers
Backblaze has five data centers; four in the United States and one in Europe. Two U.S. data centers are in Northern California near Sacramento, one is in Phoenix, Arizona, and in December 2022, Backblaze took residence in the CoreSite data center in Reston, Virginia. Backblaze's data center in the European Union is located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In September 2022, Backblaze contracted 1MW of capacity at Nautilus's floating data center in Stockton, California.