Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup

Between June 22 and August 3, 2026, 1,314 people entered hundreds of projects into a single brief: bui...

Since April 2013, Backblaze has published the daily health readings of every hard drive running in our data centers. Model, serial number, failure flag, and dozens of Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (SMART) attributes, collected into a CSV for each day, released publicly every quarter, for free. We built

At GTC this year, Jensen Huang put a number on a problem that most enterprise AI teams already feel but struggle to articulate: about 90% of what gets generated every year is unstructured data. This includes PDFs, emails, video, contracts, support tickets, and voice recording...

Organizations rarely struggle with a lack of storage options. More often, they struggle with determining which solution best fits the way their data is created, accessed, and protected: backup versus cloud storage.

That’s especially true when evaluating backup and cloud storage solutions.

The terms are often used interchangeably, but backup and clo...

Extensive news coverage and analyst reports on AI missing productivity and ROI targets mean that AI failure is something of a hot topic. There’s no arguing that some AI initiatives are misguided, including replacing entire specialist teams with AI. For others, the issue actually lies with data knowledge and readiness–