Backblaze (opens in new tab) started in 2007 to backup a friend’s computer online. Fast forward to the present, and it is in 175 countries, in excess of 50 billion files backed up, encompassing over one exabyte (that’s a million terabytes in case you were wondering) of data stored. In other words, it is a serious data player for cloud backup (opens in new tab) and one which has managed to build an efficient outreach programme as it publishes every quarter a detailed analysis of the failure rates of hard disk drives and SSD that it uses.
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