Backblaze Press Articles

(this page started 6/2/08)

Below are a collection of press articles that talk about Backblaze, a company I founded with a few partners.

8/5/07 - New York Times - Living Modestly Despite a Nice Nest Egg - by Gary Rivlin

6/2/08 - Press Release - Backblaze Launches!

6/2/08 - TechCrunch - Backblaze: Online Backup With Time Machine's Finesse - by Jason Kincaid

6/2/08 - Ars Technica - Making off-site backups brainless: hands-on with Backblaze - by David Chartier

6/2/08 - Simple Help - Review: Backblaze backup service - 25 Beta Invites for Simple Help readers - by Ross McKillop

6/2/08 - Killer Startups - Backblaze.com - Blue Screen of Death? No Problem.

6/4/08 - Atelier - Editorial: Data Backup Websites Simple To Use - by Danny Scuderi

7/22/08 - CNET Webware - Backblaze: Possibly World's Easiest Online Backup - by Rafe Needleman

7/24/08 - US News & World Report - Backblaze Is Simplest Way Yet to Back Up PC Files - by David LaGesse

7/26/08 - Italia.sw - Backblaze Online Backup Innovation - (original article in Italian)

7/27/08 - zepy.net - Backblaze: Possibly world's easiest online backup - by Kur-nia-one

8/23/08 - tic-tech-toe.com - Backblaze: Brainless Backup - by Ben Creighton

9/16/08 - TechCrunch - Backblaze's One-Click Online Backup Opens To The Public - by Jason Kincaid

9/16/08 - VentureBeat - Backblaze makes it dead simple to backup your files online - by Matt Marshall

9/16/08 - Kkomp - Backblaze Launches

9/16/08 - PRWeb - Backblaze Offers 'Peace of Mind' through Online Backup Solution - by PRWeb

9/16/08 - U.S. News and World Report - Backblaze Has the Guts to Declare Itself Ready - by David LaGesse

9/16/08 - TinyCrunch - 5 Great Online Backup Sites (Backblaze is the easiest) - by Jason Kincaid

9/16/08 - Thirdsector Tech - Backblaze - unlimited online backup for $5 / month - by Thirdsector Team

9/17/08 - Deep Jive Interests - Backblaze: Why Do You Make It So Hard To Like You? - by Tony Hung

9/21/08 - A Few Good Pens - Backblaze: Backing Up Your Files Online - by Dale Ducatte

12/3/08 - Download Squad - Backblaze Offers Truly No-Hassle Online Backups - by Lee Mathews

12/3/08 - LifeHacker - Backblaze Offers Hassle-Free Unlimited Online Backups - by Adam Pash

12/7/08 - Data Rocket - Securing Your Digital Life - by Jon Phillips

12/9/08 - TechCrunch - Backblaze Brings Its Dead Simple Online Backup To The Mac - by Jason Kincaid

12/9/08 - theAppleBlog - Backblaze Online Backup Service - by Nick Santilli

12/9/08 - TidBITS - Backblaze Launches Mac Beta of Online Backup Service - by Joe Kissell

12/9/08 - Ars Technica - Backblaze: online Time Machine for Mac - by David Chartier

12/9/08 - MacsimumNews - Backblaze announces private beta version of its Mac software - by Dennis Sellers

12/9/08 - TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) - Backblaze beta launches for Mac! - by Christina Warren

12/9/08 - MacNN - Backblaze reveals web-based system backup for Mac

12/10/08 - VentureBeat- Simple backup service Backblaze comes to Macs - by Anthony Ha

12/11/08 - InfoTech - Backblaze Intros Online Backup Solution for Mac Computers - by Rajani Baburajan

12/12/08 - On Storage - Backblaze Intros Mac Beta of Unlimited Online Backup Service - Jeff Goldman

12/14/08 - Daring Fireball - Backblaze Launches Mac Beta - by John Gruber

12/16/08 - ToMuse - Get Unlimited Hassle Free Backups For Your PC Or Mac With Backblaze - by Kevin

12/20/08 - iwanz - Chinese Review of Backblaze

1/1/09 - Courier Press - Backblaze keeps computer contents safe without the hassle - Justin Williams

1/6/09 - Cool Hunting - Backblaze Online Backup: Mac Beta Access - Doug Black

1/13/09 - iPhone Savior - Mac Faithful Show True Signs of Missing Steve Jobs

1/13/08 - MacNN - 'Bring Back Steve Jobs' flyers frustrate Apple

1/15/09 - Photojojo - Backblaze: Backup Software You'll Actually Use - Amit Gupta

1/30/09 - MacUser UK - Backblaze: MacUser Labs Winner for Best Online Backup Software - Tom Gorham
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3/1/09 - Content Agenda - Taking a Walk in 'the Cloud' - Keep Data Safe in the Cloud - David LaGesse

3/3/09 - DMG Photography - Backblaze - Breathing a Sigh of Relief - David Griffin

3/10/09 - theAppleBlog - Backblaze Recommended over Mozy or Carbonite - by Matthew Bookspan

3/13/09 - twistermc.com - Forget About Backing Up with Backblaze - by Thomas McMahon

3/15/09 - PC Go (German Print Magazine) - Capstore, Carbonite, Backblaze, and Mozy Review - by Jörn-Eric Burkert

4/14/09 - 5THIRTYONE - Backblaze: Secure unlimited automatic backups for $5 - by Derek Punsalan

4/14/09 - Macsimum News - Backblaze announces Mac Online Backup - by Dennis Sellers

4/14/09 - Macworld - Backblaze online backup debuts for Mac - by Peter Cohen

4/14/09 - TechCrunch - Backblaze's Online Backup Solution For Macs Hits Public - by Robin Wauters

4/14/09 - TidBITS - Backblaze Publicly Launches Online Backup Service for Macs - by Joe Kissell

4/14/09 - VentureBeat - Simple backup service Backblaze now available to all Mac users - by Anthony Ha

4/14/09 - MacNN - Backblaze debuts 'effortless' backup for Macs

4/14/09 - PC World - Backblaze Online Backup Debuts for Mac - by Peter Cohen

4/14/09 - TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) - Backblaze for Mac officially launches - by Christina Warren

4/14/09 - TechWhack - Backblaze now available for Apple Mac

4/14/09 - theAppleBlog - Backblaze for Mac Now Live - by Nick Santilli

4/14/09 - CNET - Easy backups for Mac: Backblaze - by Jason Parker

4/14/09 - Digital Composting - Backblaze - my offsite backup strategy - by Ron Brinkmann

4/15/09 - ComputerWorld - Backblaze now offers unlimited  Mac backups for $5 a month - by Lucas Mearian

4/15/09 - MyCom (Japanese) - Unlimited online backup from "Backblaze" For the Mac - by Yoichi Yamashita

4/17/09 - AppScout.com - Backblaze now Backs up Macs, Too - by Tony Dreier

4/22/09 - The Mac Observer - Backblaze to the Rescue! - by Ted Landau

4/22/09 - The Apple Store - Backblaze Listed in Apple's Downloads Section

4/27/09 - Cocolog-Nifty (Japanese) - Backblaze, Monster of an Online Full PC Data Service! - by Masaki

6/11/09 - Mac Life- Online Storage Battle: Which Cloud Back-Up Service Reigns Supreme? - by Susie Ochs

7/2/09 - The Father Life - Backblaze - Like Life Insurance Only Cheaper - by Ben Martin

7/9/09 - Mac App Storm - 8 Backup Solutions for OS X (Backblaze is best Online Backup) - by David Appleyard

7/13/09 - Survey - Top 10 Cloud Storage Providers (Backblaze is #8)

7/13/09 - Stuck In Customs - Backblaze Review - Trey Ratcliff

7/13/09 - TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) - Let's do the Time Warp again!  Offsite Time Machine backups - by Steven Sande

7/25/09 - TechWeb - Top 19 Mac Apps For Tight Budgets (Backblaze is #14) - by Mitch Wagner

7/31/09 - PMUG - Backblaze: Time Machine for the Cloud - by Khürt

8/4/09 - Eastman's Online Geneology Newsletter - Another Online Backup Solution (but I Use Backblaze) - by Dick Eastman

8/27/09 - Mac1 (Norway) - Nettbackup med Backblaze (In English: Network Backup with Backblaze) - by kjellhar

8/31/09 - Avid Cruiser - Backblaze Ships Author Restore Hard Drive - in Helsinki - by Ralph Grizzle

9/1/09 - Backblaze Blog - Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage - by Tim Nufire, Backblaze blog

9/1/09 - GigaOm - Are You Ready for Open-Source Hardware? - by Om Malik

9/1/09 - StorageMojo - Cloud storage for $100 a terabyte - by Robin Harris

9/1/09 - Online Backups Review - Build a Backblaze

9/1/09 - Vator News - Backblaze gives away cloud storage design (to spur some innovation) - by Chris Caceres

9/1/09 - ZDNet - Build a RAID 6 array for $100/TB - in "Storage Bits" by Robin Harris

9/1/09 - Information Overload - Backblaze is a good Compliment to a Drobo - by Brian T. Nakamoto

9/1/09 - VentureBeat - Backblaze sets its cheap storage designs free - by Anthony Ha

9/1/09 - Mashable - How It Works: The Continually Declining Cost of Unlimited Data Backup - by Christina Warren

9/1/09 - ByteAndSwitch - 67 Terabytes for $7,867: How-to By BackBlaze - by Mike Fratto

9/1/09 - BoingBoing - Open design for a 67 TB array for $7867 - by Cory Doctorow

9/1/09 - Appfrica - OpenSource Hardware Goes Mainstream - by Theresa Carpenter Sondjo

9/1/09 - TUAW - Need a few petabytes of Mac storage? Build your own BackBlaze Storage Pod - by Steven Sande

9/1/09 - Reddit.com - Petabytes on a budget #1 on Reddit.com - submitted by Toadfoot

9/1/09 - Electronista (macnn) - Backblaze gives away cloud storage design

9/1/09 - KyleCordes.com - Finally, massive storage done right - by Kyle Cordes

9/2/09 - SlashDot - Hardware: Build Your Own $2.8M Petabyte Disk Array For $117k - submitted by Chris Pirazzi

9/2/09 - Guardian.co.uk - Petabytes on a budget - by Jack Schofield

9/2/09 - Chakfused - Heavy Peta-ing

9/2/09 - ZDNet - BackBlaze reveals how to build petabyte storage arrays for a 10th of the cost - by Jason Hiner

9/2/09 - CrunchGear - How much for 67 terabytes? Try $7,867 - by Dave Freeman

9/3/09 - Ycombinator (Hacker News) - Discussion About Backblaze Storage Pod - 105 authors and comments weigh in

9/3/09 - Mvdirona Perspectives - Backblaze Successfully Challenges the Server Tax - by James Hamilton (from Amazon Web Services)

9/3/09 - CRN (Australia) - Want a petabyte for under US$120,000? - by Sholto Macpherson

9/3/09 - C0T0D0S0.org - Some perspective to Backblaze's DIY storage server mentioned at Storagemojo - by Joerg Moellenkamp

9/4/09 - Ycombinator (Hacker News) - Discussion About above Joerg Moellenkamp's Blog Post - 100 authors and comments respond to Joerg Moellenkamp

9/4/09 - Digg - Backblaze hits #2 spot on Digg

9/7/09 - Macworld - Backblaze gives away its 67TB ‘storage pod’ design - Peter Cohen

9/3/09 - C0T0D0S0.org - Thoughts about this DIY-Thumper and storage in general - by Joerg Moellenkamp

9/3/09 - ZDNet - Survival of the fit-most - by Phil Wainewright

12/7/09 - Nerd Stalker - Backblaze is 2009's Best Cloud Backup - by Adolfo Foronda

12/5/09 - Vator News - An inside look at Backblaze - by Chris Caceres

8/27/10 - Backblaze Blog - Backblaze online backup almost acquired - Breaking down the breakup - Gleb Budman

8/27/10 - Tech Crunch - Online Backup Startup Backblaze Was Almost Bought.  Twice.  What Went Wrong - by Robin Wauters

8/27/10 - Venture Beat - Backup service Backblaze almost acquired by .... someone - by Anthony Ha

8/27/10 - Hacker New (ycombinator.com) - Discussion about Acquisition Blog Post

8/27/10 - Small Net Builder - Backblaze Almost Acquired - Lessons Learned the Hard Way - by Tim Higgins

8/27/10 - Law Shucks - Client's Perspective on a Busted Deal

8/27/10 - Online Backups Review - Backblaze Acquired, Almost

10/7/10 - New York Times (GigaOm) - Macintosh Backup Smackdown - Backblaze Hands Down Better than Mozy or Carbonite

5/23/11 - On this date Backblaze launched the "Locate My Computer" functionality.  Here is a screenshot of the "Locate My Computer" Page and this is the Blog Post announcing the feature

5/23/11 - TUAW - Backblaze adds free Locate My Computer service to backups - by Steven Sande

5/23/11 - MacStories - Backblaze Launches Location Service to Find Stolen Computers - by Cody Fink

5/23/11 - MacTech - Backblaze Online Backup Launches 'Locate My Computer'

5/23/11 - Online Backups Review - Locate your Lost or Stolen Computer with Backblaze

5/23/11 - Tech Whack - Backblaze launches locate my computer feature

5/23/11 - Small Cloud Builder - Backblaze adds Free Stolen Computer Locator

5/23/11 - Business Insider - Backblaze adds free Locate service to backups

5/23/11 - Mac News - Backblaze Online Backup Launches 'Locate My Computer'

5/23/11 - The Inquisitr - Backblaze launches 'Locate My Computer' so everyone can humiliate the person who stole their laptop on YouTube

5/23/11 - eWeek - Backup Provider Backblaze Now Includes Locator for Stolen PCs

7/20/11 - Launch of the Pod 2.0 blog post - Petabytes on a Budget v2.0: Revealing More Secrets

  1. 7/20/11 - Backblaze Blog - Petabytes on a Budget v2.0: Revealing More Secrets - by Tim Nufire, Backblaze blog
  2. 7/20/11 - Extreme Tech - How to build your own 135TB RAID6 storage pod for $7,384 - by Sebastian Anthony
  3. 7/20/11 - GigaOm - Cloud storage for $100 a terabyte - by Derrick Harris
  4. 7/21/11 - GigaOm - Open source and the IT company, a lucrative proposition - by Paul Miller
  5. 7/20/11 - Ycombinator (Hacker News) - 135TB for $7,384 - Backblaze Pod 2.0 - 75 authors and comments weigh in
  6. 7/20/11 - Slashdot - Build Your Own 135TB RAID6 Storage Pod for $7,384 - posted by CmdrTaco, 238 comments
  7. 7/20/11 - Electronista - Backblaze intros Storage Pod 2.0: DIY 135TB server for $7K
  8. 7/20/11 - VentureBeat - Backblaze sets its cheap storage designs free - by Regina Sinsky
  9. 7/20/11 - StorageMojo - How It Works: The Continually Declining Cost of Unlimited Data Backup - by Robin Harris
  10. 7/22/11 - TUAW - Backblaze updates Storage Pod Project and supports Lion - by Steven Sande
  11. ... total of 15 articles ....
     

10/26/11 - TechCrunch - Online Storage Service Backblaze Now More Unlimited Than Unlimited - by Robin Wauters

10/26/11 - GigaOm - Backblaze now backs up whatever you've got - by Barb Darrow

10/26/11 - Wired - Backblaze’s Basic Cloud Storage is 25 Times Cheaper than Amazon S3 - by Jon Stokes

 

 

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