All posts by Jennifer Newman

Managing the Media Tidal Wave: Backlight iconik’s 2024 Media Report

Post Syndicated from Jennifer Newman original https://backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com/blog/managing-the-media-tidal-wave-backlight-iconiks-2024-media-report/

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Everyone knows we’re living through an exceptional time when it comes to media production: Every day we experience a tidal wave of content—social video, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) gaming, 10K sports footage, every streaming option imaginable—crashing down on us.

Two eye popping stats underscore that this perception is real: In December, Netflix shared that its users streamed close to 100 billion hours of content on its platform during the first half of 2023. At the beginning of 2024, YouTube revealed that its users watch one billion hours of video daily. 

It’s hard to make sense of that volume of content, it’s even harder to understand how it’s produced. Imagine the armies of people and types of programs required to capture, ingest, transcode, store, tag, edit, distribute, and archive all of it. Managing that content means touching every stage, start to finish, of the production process through the data lifecycle. 

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To further complicate things, the modern production person’s workflow is nothing close to linear. They have to deal with:

  • A diversity of inputs: Content is pouring in from various sources. Keeping track of all this content, ensuring its quality, and organizing it effectively can feel like trying to catch a waterfall in a teacup. 
  • A variety of formats and file types: Each platform or device may require a different format or resolution, making it difficult to maintain consistency across the board and adding another layer of complexity.
  • Managing metadata, or indexing and tagging: With so much content flying around, ensuring that each file is properly tagged with relevant information is crucial for easy retrieval and management. However, manually inputting metadata for every piece of media can be time-consuming and prone to errors.
  • Remote and in-person collaboration: With team members spread across different locations, coordinating efforts and maintaining version control can be a headache.
  • Storage and scalability: As the volume of media grows, so does the need for storage space. Finding a solution that can accommodate this growth without breaking the bank can be tough.

While many companies are jumping in to provide tools to manage this tidal wave of content, one company, Backlight iconik, differentiates itself by providing industry-leading tools and offering public media reports on the state of media data today.

Backlight iconik’s 2024 Media Stats Report

Since 2018, iconik has provided a cloud-based media asset management (MAM) tool to help production professionals tame the insanity of modern content development. For the past four years, they’ve also provided an annual Media Stats report to help the industry understand the type of media being developed and distributed, as well as where and how it’s stored. (In 2022, Backlight, a global media technology, acquired iconik, hence the name change.) If you want the full story, please check out Backlight iconik’s 2024 Media Stats Report,

As cloud storage specialists here at Backblaze (and, lovers of stats ourselves), we would like to dig into their stats on storage and offer our own take here for you today.

2024 Media Storage Trend: The Content Tidal Wave Is Not a Mirage

According to Backlight iconik’s Media Stats Report, iconik’s data exploded to 152PB, shooting up by a whopping 57%—that’s 53PB more than in 2023. To put it in perspective, that’s roughly 6TB of fresh data pouring in every hour. This surge in data can be attributed to both new customers integrating their archives with iconik and existing customers ramping up their usage.

2024 Media Storage Trend: Audio on the Rise

An interesting find in their study was the difference between audio and video asset growth. Iconik is now managing 328 years of video (up 41% YoY) and 208 years of audio (up 50% YoY).

A decorative display of media stats from iconik's media report. The title reads Asset Duration. On the left, a blue circle displays the words 328 years of video, which represents 41% growth year on year. On the right, an orange circle contains the words 208 years of audio, which represents 50% growth year on year.
Note that “duration” in this context is measuring the total hours of runtime for each file. Source.

Over the last year, the growth of audio assets managed by Backlight iconik has surged, surpassing that of video, with a staggering 1,700 hours being added daily. They believe this surge is closely tied to the remarkable expansion of both the podcasting and audiobook markets in recent years. The global podcast market ballooned to $17.9 billion in 2023 and is forecasted to soar to $144 billion by 2032. Similarly, the audiobook market is projected to hit $35 billion by 2030, with expected revenue of $35.05 billion in the same year. While audio files are smaller than video files by far, it’s reasonable to anticipate a continued upward trajectory for audio assets across the media and entertainment landscape.

2024 Trend: The Shift to Cloud Storage for Cost-Effective Storage and Collaboration

According to Backlight iconik’s 2024 Media Stats Report, the trend toward cloud storage is definitely on the rise as the increased competition in the market and move away from hyperscalers drive more reasonable pricing. Companies are opting to transition to the cloud at their own speed, and hybrid cloud setups give them the freedom to shift assets as needed to improve things like performance, ease of access, security, and meeting regulatory requirements.

Get Ahead of the Wave: Pair iconik With Modern Cloud Storage Today

The reasons so many media professionals are moving to cloud are relatively simple: Cloud workflows enable enhanced collaboration and flexibility, greater cost predictability, and heightened security and management capabilities. And often, all of the above is possible at a lower total cost than legacy solutions.

Pairing Backlight iconik and Backblaze provides a simple solution for users to manage, collaborate, and store media projects easily. By integrating with iconik, Backblaze boosts workflow effectiveness, delivering a strong cloud-based MAM system that allows thorough management of Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage data right from a web browser.

Customer Story: How One Streaming Company Tackled Remote Content Workflows With Backblaze and Backlight iconik

When Goalcast, the empowering media company, decided to dive into making their own content, they realized their current setup just wasn’t cutting it. With their team spread out all over the place, they needed an easy way to get footage, access videos from anywhere, and keep a stash of finished files ready to jazz up for YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and the Goalcast OTT app. 

Goalcast combined LucidLink’s cloud-based workflows, iconik’s media asset manager and uploader features, and Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage. The integration between iconik, LucidLink, and Backblaze creates a slick media workflow. The content crew uploads raw footage straight into iconik, tossing in key details. Original files zip into Goalcast’s Backblaze B2 Bucket automatically, while edited versions are up for grabs via LucidLink. After the editing magic, final assets kick back into Backblaze B2.

The integration and partnership means endless possibilities for Goalcast. They’re saving around 150 hours a month in grunt work and stress. Now, they don’t have to fret about where footage hides or how to snag it—it’s all securely stored in Backblaze, ready for anyone on the team to grab, no matter where they’re working from.

You can get lost in the weeds of tech companies and storage solutions. It can hurt your brain. The sweet spot is these three—iconik, LucidLink, and Backblaze—and how they work together.

—Dan Schiffmacher, Production Operations Manager, Goalcast

2024 Media Mega Trend

Looking at Backlight iconik’s numbers and forecasts from a 25,000 foot vantage point makes one thing painfully clear: Effective media management and storage are going to be absolutely crucial for media teams to succeed in the future landscape of production. Dive deeper into how Backblaze and Backlight iconik can support you now and down the road, ensuring seamless media management, and affordable storage, that creates easy, stress-free expansion as your data continues to grow. 

Already have iconik and want to get started with Backblaze? Click here. 

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HYCU + Backblaze: Protecting Against Data Loss

Post Syndicated from Jennifer Newman original https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hycu-backblaze-protecting-against-data-loss/

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Backblaze and HYCU, the fastest-growing leader in multi-cloud data protection as a service (DPaaS) are teaming up to provide businesses a complete backup solution for modern workloads with low-cost scalable infrastructure—a must-have for modern cyber resilience needs.

Read on to learn more about the partnership, how you can benefit from affordable, agile data protection, and a little bit about a relevant ancient poetic art form.

HYCU + Backblaze: The Power of Collaboration

Within HYCU’s DPaaS platform, shared customers can now select Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage—an S3 compatible object storage platform that provides highly durable, instantly available hot storage—as a destination for their HYCU backups. 

With more applications in use across the modern data center, visibility and the ability to protect that mission-critical data has never been at more of a premium. Our collaboration with Backblaze now offers joint customers a cost-effective and scalable data protection solution combining the best in backup and recovery with Backblaze’s streamlined and secure cloud storage.

—Subbiah Sundaram, SVP Product, HYCU, Inc.

The Data Sprawl Problem

On average, businesses and organizations have upwards of 200 different sets of data or “data silos” spread across a growing number of applications, databases, and physical locations. This data sprawl isn’t just hard to manage, it opens up more opportunities for cybercriminals to inject ransomware and gain access to systems. 

HYCU gives customers the power to protect every byte while also managing all their business critical data in one place. Powered by the world’s first development platform for data protection, HYCU is the only DPaaS platform that can scale to protect all of your data—wherever it resides. Most importantly, it gives customers the ability to recover from disaster almost instantly, keeping them online and in business, with an average recovery time of 10 minutes. 

Backblaze and HYCU:

Keeping data safe for all

at one-fifth the cost.

By combining HYCU data protection with Backblaze B2 Storage Cloud, customers can see up to 80% lower costs in comparison to using providers like AWS for their storage, which means that combining the two can be a force multiplier for a businesses’ ability to fully protect their data and scale efficiently and reliably.

Data protection:

Once challenging, now easy—

HYCU and B2.

The partnership offers the following benefits:

  • Performance: With a 99.9% uptime service level agreement (SLA) and no cold delays or speed premiums, storing data in Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage means joint customers have instant access to their data whenever and wherever they need it. 
  • Affordability: Existing customers can reduce their total cost of ownership by switching backup tiers with interoperable S3 compatible storage, and institutions and businesses who may not have been able to afford hyperscaler-based solutions can now protect their data.
  • Compliance and Security: With Backblaze B2’s Object Lock feature, the partnership also offers an additional layer of security through data immutability, which protects backups from ransomware and satisfies evolving cyber insurance requirements.

These benefits can prove particularly useful for higher education institutions, schools, state and local governments, nonprofits, and others where maximizing tight budgets is always a priority.

What’s in a Name?

For the poetically minded among our readership (there must be a few of you, right?), you may have noticed a haiku or two above. And that’s not a coincidence.

The humble haiku inspired the name for HYCU. In true poetic fashion, the name serves more than one purpose—it’s also an acronym for “hyperconverged uptime,” making the least amount of letters do the most, as they should.

Making Data Protection Easier

This partnership adds a powerful new data protection option for joint customers looking to affordably back up their data and establish a disaster recovery strategy. And, this is just the beginning. Stay tuned for more from this partnership, including integrations with HYCU’s other data protection offerings in the future. 

Interested in getting started? Learn more in our docs.

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Work Smarter With Backblaze and Quantum H4000 Essential

Post Syndicated from Jennifer Newman original https://www.backblaze.com/blog/work-smarter-with-backblaze-and-quantum-h4000-essential/

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How much do you think it costs your creative team to manage data? How much time and money is spent organizing files, searching for files, and maybe never finding those files? Have you ever quantified it? One market research firm has. According to GISTICS, a creative team of eight people wastes more than $85,000 per year searching for and managing files—and larger teams waste even more than that.

Creative teams need better tools to work smarter. Backblaze has partnered with Quantum to simplify media workflows, provide easy remote collaboration, and free up on-premises storage space with seamless content archiving to the cloud. The partnership provides teams the tools needed to compete. Read on to learn more.

What Is Quantum?

Quantum is a data storage company that provides technology, software, and services to help companies make video and other unstructured data smarter—so data works for them and not the other way around. Quantum’s H4000 Essential (H4000E) asset management and shared storage solution offers customers an all-in-one appliance that integrates automatic content indexing, search, discovery, and collaboration. It couples the CatDV asset management platform with Quantum’s StorNext 7 shared storage.

How Does This Partnership Benefit Joint Customers?

By pairing Quantum H4000 Essential with Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, you get award-winning asset management and shared storage with the ability to archive to the cloud. The partnership provides a number of benefits:

  • Better organization: Creative teams work visually, and the Quantum platform supports visual workflows. All content is available in one place, with automatic content indexing, metadata tagging, and proxy generation.
  • Searchable assets: All content and projects are searchable in an easy to use visual catalog.
  • Seamless collaboration: Teams can use production tools like Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro X, and others to work on shared projects as well as tagging, markup, versioning, chat, and approval tools to streamline collaboration.
  • Robust archive management: Archived content can be restored easily from Backblaze B2 to CatDV to keep work in progress lean and focused.
  • On-premises efficiency: Once projects are complete, they can be quickly archived to the cloud to free up storage space on the H4000E for high-resolution production files and ongoing projects.
  • Simplified billing: Data is stored on always-hot storage, eliminating the management frustration that comes with multiple tiers and variable costs for egress and API calls.

Purchase Cloud Capacity the Same Way You Purchase On-Premises

With Backblaze B2 Reserve, you can purchase capacity-based storage starting at 20TB to pair with your Quantum H4000E if you prefer a predictable cloud spend versus consumption-based billing. Key features of B2 Reserve include:

  • Free egress up to the amount of storage purchased per month.
  • Free transaction calls.
  • Enhanced migration services.
  • No delete penalties.
  • Upgraded Tera support.

Who Would Benefit From Backblaze B2 + Quantum H4000E?

The partnership benefits any team that handles large amounts of data, specifically media files. The solution can help teams with:

  • Simplifying media workflows.
  • Easing remote project management and collaboration.
  • Cloud tiering.
  • Extending on-premises storage.
  • Implementing a cloud-first strategy.
  • Backup and disaster recovery planning.
  • Ransomware protection.
  • Managing consistent data growth.

Getting Started With Backblaze B2 and Quantum H4000E

The Quantum H4000E is a highly-integrated solution for collaborative shared storage and asset management. Configured with Backblaze B2 for content archiving and retrieval, it provides new menu options to perform cloud archiving and move, copy, and restore content, freeing up H4000 local storage for high-resolution files. You can easily add on cloud storage to improve remote media workflows, content collaboration, media asset protection, and archive.

With the H4000E, everything you need to get started is in the box, ready to connect to your 10GbE and higher network. And, a simple Backblaze B2 archive plugin connects the solution directly to your Backblaze B2 account.

Simply create a Backblaze account and configure the Backblaze CatDV panel with your credentials.

Join Backblaze at NAB Las Vegas

Join us at NAB to learn more about the Quantum + Backblaze solution. Our booths are neighbors! Schedule a meeting with us for a demo.

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Simplify Data Protection with Backblaze and Commvault

Post Syndicated from Jennifer Newman original https://www.backblaze.com/blog/simplify-data-protection-with-backblaze-and-commvault/

The most effective backups are the ones you never have to think about—It’s that simple. For anyone in charge of data protection—IT Admins, IT Directors, CTOs and CIOs, managed service providers, and others—driving to that level of simplicity is always the goal. A new partnership between Backblaze and Commvault brings you one step closer to achieving that goal.

Now, Commvault customers can select Backblaze B2 as a cloud storage destination for their Commvault backups and data management needs. Read on to learn more about the partnership.

What Is Commvault?

Commvault is a global leader in data management. Their Intelligent Data Services help organizations transform how they protect, store, and use data. They offer a simple, unified Data Management Platform that spans all of a company’s data, no matter where it lives—on-premises, or in a hybrid or multi-cloud environment—or how it’s structured—in legacy applications, databases, virtual machines, or in containers.

How Does This Partnership Benefit Joint Customers?

Joint customers gain access to easy, affordable cloud storage that integrates with Commvault’s software. The partnership benefits joint customers in a few key ways:

  • Quick setup: Get started with a seamless integration.
  • Easy administration: Manage data in one platform.
  • Better backups: Protect your data from ransomware risks, equipment failure, damage, theft, and human error.
  • Faster recoveries: Restore your environment quickly in the event of a disaster.
  • Affordable storage: Backblaze is ⅕ the cost of major cloud providers.

Take Advantage of Capacity-Based Pricing with Backblaze B2 Reserve

Joint customers who prefer predictable cloud spend rather than consumption-based pricing can take advantage of Backblaze B2 Reserve. The Backblaze B2 Reserve offering is capacity-based, starting at 20TB, with key features, including:

  • Free egress up to the amount of storage purchased per month.
  • Free transaction calls.
  • Enhanced migration services.
  • No delete penalties.
  • Upgraded Tera support.

Customers can purchase B2 Reserve through our channel partners. If you’re interested in participating or just want to learn more, contact our Sales team.

If you’re a channel partner and Commvault is in your suite of offerings, we’d love to engage with you. Register on our Partner Portal to get started with offering Backblaze B2 as a backup target.

Customer Spotlight: How Pittsburg State Protects Data in Tornado Alley

Pittsburg State University, located in the heart of Tornado Alley in Kansas, took steps to protect their data by deploying private cloud infrastructure via Commvault Distributed Storage. They established two nodes on-premises and a third across the state for geographic separation, but they wanted another layer of protection. They added Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage giving them peace of mind that their data would be better protected from threats like ransomware. Since Backblaze is integrated with Commvault, Commvault de-duplicates the data, then sends a copy to Backblaze nightly.

“Backblaze B2 had the capability we lacked. I bolted it onto our system, so now I have off-site backup that is safe and well-protected from a regional disaster in Kansas.”
—Tim Pearson, Director for IT Infrastructure and Security, Pittsburg State University

Getting Started with Backblaze B2 and Commvault

Ready to simplify your Commvault backup storage? Check out our Commvault Quickstart Guide for a walk through on how to set up Backblaze B2 as your Commvault cloud storage target.

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Backblaze at Educause ’22: Fueling Innovation in Higher Education

Post Syndicated from Jennifer Newman original https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-at-educause-22-fueling-innovation-in-higher-education/


Like many industries, higher education has spent the last decade discovering the transformative power of the cloud and moving into the next century. The cost savings of running a more efficient tech stack and easier access to the vital data it contains have allowed those institutions to pursue the practical and academic discoveries they were built for.

Graduating to Cloud Storage

Across the board, colleges and universities are pushing the boundaries of what cloud storage can do—and their creativity is paying huge dividends for their efficiency and security. We’ve included a few examples below that show just how these institutions have been able to maximize their cloud storage capabilities to reduce costs, modernize outdated operations, protect sensitive student and research data, and extend their ability to provide knowledge to a wider audience.

Citing Our Work

Pittsburg State: Located in Kansas, this university found themselves with nearly five decades of data in harm’s way due to the constant threat of tornadoes. Adding off-premises storage with Backblaze B2 not only gave them the geographical separation they needed, but the addition of a virtual air gap through Object Lock quadrupled their protection against ransomware.

Coast Community College District: CCCD aiming to update its data management system and eliminate costly delays from tape backups. Their existing tapes needed to be physically chauffeured between the three colleges in the district—Coastline Community College, Golden West College, and Orange Coast College—in friendly L.A. traffic. Backblaze B2’s S3 Compatible APIs made for a seamless integration with Cohesity backup.

UCSC–Silicon Valley: A 22-person video production team at the university’s online learning program, UC–Scout had quickly reached their storage capacity after archiving thousands of videos. By leveraging Backblaze B2, their IT team was able to streamline the entire production process, saving money and unleashing the team’s full creative potential.

Kanopy: The “Netflix for libraries” overhauled its tech stack in order to share its massive selection of more than 25,000 videos with thousands of schools and public libraries. After migrating to Backblaze B2, Kanopy was able to scale efficiently and rapidly accelerate content onboarding.

Gladstone Institutes: Gladstone Institutes needed an affordable, reliable backup system that would allow their researchers to focus on the life-saving developments they were pursuing in the lab. Cloud storage’s increased reliability allowed them to move away from LTO, and off-premise storage shielded their findings from the potential for natural disasters.

Office Hours—No Lectures

If you’re planning to attend EduCause ’22, you can learn more about the many possibilities Backblaze opens up in higher education. Through a new partnership between Backblaze and Carahsoft, public sector customers can now leverage their existing state, local, and federal buying programs to access Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage.

In addition to a live demo of Instant Recovery in the Veeam booth, we’re proud to sponsor the Carahsoft Happy Hour Reception. With special cocktails you won’t find anywhere else (try the “Backblaze Special;” you’ll love it), this is a great opportunity to network with fellow educators and learn more about how Backblaze can help you leverage your tech stack.

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Quest Integrates Backblaze into Rapid Recovery Version 6.7

Post Syndicated from Jennifer Newman original https://www.backblaze.com/blog/quest-integrates-backblaze-into-rapid-recovery-version-6-7/

It’s the classic “tree falls in the woods” scenario: if your company experiences data loss, but your users never feel it, did it even happen? That’s the value proposition our friends over at Quest—an IT platform that solves complex problems with simple software solutions—present with their popular Rapid Recovery tool:

Back up and quickly recover anything — systems, apps, and data — anywhere, whether it’s physical, virtual, or in the cloud. This data recovery software allows you to run without restore, with zero impact on your users, and as if the outage or data loss never happened.

Quest Rapid Recovery Version 6.7 Adds Backblaze B2 in Cloud Tier

As of today—whether you’re a Quest customer or a Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage user—you can combine all this value with the astonishingly easy cloud storage we’re known for here at Backblaze. In Quest’s 6.7 release of Rapid Recovery, navigate to Cloud Accounts in the menu (see screenshot below for menu location), click Add New Account.


Enter a display name, select B2 Cloud Storage, and choose Amazon S3 as the cloud type. Then you just need to enter your Access key (keyID), Secret Key (applicationKey), and your service endpoint URL.


Your data will be safe, useful, and affordable at a quarter of the price of legacy cloud providers. Try it out today or contact our sales team to learn more.

So, What’s Changed?

If you’re already a Quest Rapid Recovery user, you may notice that setup hasn’t changed. What’s changed is actually in the code—Rapid Recovery will now work more seamlessly and more efficiently. Bug fixes have been baked into version 6.7 and their support will be more robust. We love a seamless partnership—and stay tuned for more integrations between Quest and Backblaze in the future!

More About Quest’s Rapid Recovery Tool

If you’re a Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage user who is in the market for a recovery solution for your business, you can dig into the details about Rapid Recovery here. Here’s a brief primer of the solutions capabilities:

  • Simplify backup and restore: One cloud-based management console allows you to restore lost or damaged systems and data with near-zero recovery time and no impact to users—an advanced, admin-friendly solution.
  • Address demanding recovery point objectives (RPO): Leverage image-based snapshots for RPOs and reduce risk of data loss and downtime with tracked change blocks to accelerate backups and reduce storage.
  • Wide application support: Lightning-fast recovery for file servers and applications on both Microsoft Windows and Linux systems gets business-critical applications online to keep your business rolling.
  • Cloud-based backup, archive, and disaster recovery: (This is where we come in…) Point-and-click cloud connectivity makes for easy replication of application backups for no-stress cloud backup.
  • Virtual environment protection: Agentless backup and recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SQL databases residing on your virtual machines and low-cost VM-only tiered licensing for on-premises and cloud virtual environments.
  • Data deduplication and replication: With B2 Cloud storage, you’ll already save upwards of 75% versus other cloud storage solutions, but you can reduce costs further by leveraging built-in compression and deduplication. Nice.

More about Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage is purpose-built for ease, instant access to files and data, and infinite scalability. Backblaze B2 is priced so users don’t have to choose between what matters and what doesn’t when it comes to backup, archive, data organization, workflow streamlining, and more. Signing up couldn’t be more simple: a few clicks and you’re storing data. The first 10GB is free, and if you need more capacity to run a proof of concept you can talk to our sales team. Otherwise, when you’re ready to store data, you can pay one of two ways:

  • Our per-byte consumption pricing: Only pay for what you store. It’s $5 TB/month, no hidden delete fees or gotchas. What you see is what you get.
  • Our B2 Reserve capacity pricing: If you’d like to by predictable blocks of storage, you can work with any of our reseller partners to unlock the following benefits:
    • Free egress up to the amount of storage purchased per month.
    • Free transaction calls.
    • Enhanced migration services.
    • No delete penalties.
    • Tera support.

The Answer to the Question

You all can debate the philosophical implications of trees falling in woods and the sound they make. But when it comes to Rapid Recovery, it seems like we can guarantee one thing: your users might not hear the data loss when it happens, but you can bet the sight of relief your IT team breathes when they rapidly recover will be audible.

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ELEMENTS Media Platform Adds Backblaze B2 as Native Cloud Option

Post Syndicated from Jennifer Newman original https://www.backblaze.com/blog/elements-media-platform-adds-backblaze-b2-as-native-cloud-option/

Cloud workflows are rapidly becoming a driver of every modern media team’s day-to-day creative output. Whether it’s enabling remote shoots, distributed teams, or leveraging budgets more effectively, the cloud can deliver a ton of value to any team. But workflows, by their nature, are complex—and plenty of legacy cloud solutions only add to that complexity with tangled pricing models and limits to egress and collaboration.

ELEMENTS has been simplifying media workflows for more than a decade. Cloud storage has always been part of the ELEMENTS DNA, but they’ll be presenting revolutionary platform updates for cloud workflows in 2023 and beyond at IBC 2022. Part of this new focus on cloud solutions is their addition of an easy, transparent cloud storage option to their platform in Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage. Nimble post-production teams are always on the lookout for more straightforward and easy-to-understand cloud plans with transparent costs—this is a market that Backblaze serves more effectively than the other legacy providers accessible through the platform.

Learn More About This Solution Live in Amsterdam

If you’re attending the 2022 IBC Conference in Amsterdam, join us at stand 7.B06 to learn about integrating B2 Cloud Storage into your workflow. You can schedule a meeting here.

The Backblaze + ELEMENTS Integration

The ELEMENTS platform makes it simple to upload and download files straight from on-premises storage while also offering smart and fully customisable archiving workflows, cloud-based media asset management (MAM), and a number of other tools and features that remove the borders between cloud and on-premises storage. Once connected, ELEMENTS enables users to search, edit, or automate changes to media assets. This extends to team collaboration and setting rights to folders and data across the connected networks. ELEMENTS has provided an intuitive interface making this an easy-to-use solution that is designed for the M&E industry.

Connecting your Backblaze account with ELEMENTS is easy. Simply navigate to the System > Integrations menu and enter your Backblaze login credentials. After this, Backblaze B2 Buckets of the connected account can be mounted as a volume on ELEMENTS.

If you’d like to run a proof of concept with Backblaze, the first 10 GB is free and setting up a Backblaze account only takes a few clicks. Or you can contact sales for more information.

If you’re already a Backblaze B2 customer and would like to check out the ELEMENTS platform, contact ELEMENTS directly here.

Simplifying Your Workflow AND Your Budget

Backblaze focuses on end-to-end ease, including how it works in your budget. Businesses can select a pay-as-you go option or work with a reseller to access capacity plans.

B2 Cloud Storage – This is a general cloud plan for applications, backups and almost all of your business needs. The pricing is simple: $5 per TB per month + $0.01 per GB download fee. As with all plans, the files are located on one storage tier and can always be easily accessed.

B2 Reserve – This is the sweet spot for most media use cases. B2 Reserve is a cloud package starting from 20TB per month. This plan comes at a slightly higher cost than the standard B2 Cloud Storage plan but is free from egress fees up to the amount of storage purchased per month. B2 Reserve will quickly work in your favor if you plan on accessing your files regularly. NOTE: B2 Reserve is only available through resellers.

Top Benefits for Teams Using Backblaze and ELEMENTS Together

The ELEMENTS platform offers a set of robust tools that unlock time and budgets for creative teams to do more. We’ll underline how these different features can work with Backblaze B2.

Automation Engine

The ELEMENTS Automation Engine allows users to create workflows with any number of steps. This tool has a growing list of templates, two of which are Archive and Restore automations. These can be used to archive footage to Backblaze and delete it from the on-premises storage while keeping a lightweight preview proxy. If you need the original footage after previewing the proxy, triggering the Restore automation is all you need to do. The hi-res footage will automatically be downloaded from the Backblaze B2 bucket and placed onto the original location.

A huge benefit of using cloud storage through the ELEMENTS platform is that the individual users do not need to have cloud accounts or direct cloud access. Users will only be able to use the cloud features through the preset automation jobs and according to their permissions.

Media Library

Cloud technologies open up a number of new possibilities within the Media Library, our powerful, browser-based media asset management (MAM) platform.

For example, if your post-production facility has a locally-deployed media library which is running on your ELEMENTS storage and is connected to your Backblaze account, users can playback all of your footage at any time, no matter where it is stored—on-premises, in the cloud, or even in your LTO archive.

The Media Library adds a layer of functionality to the cloud and allows you to easily build a true cloud archive—one that can be accessed from anywhere, in which footage can easily be previewed and just as easily restored with a click of a button.

File Manager

The File Manager is a functionality of the ELEMENTS Web UI that allows you to browse and manage content on your storage on-premises and, very soon, in the cloud. It provides you with a clear overview of all your files, no matter how many file systems and cloud buckets you have. File Managers’ support for cloud storage means users will be able to manage all of their files in one place, without having to navigate through a host of different cloud providers’ interfaces.

ELEMENTS Client

The ELEMENTS Client is an intuitive connection manager that allows admins to decide who gets to mount what—providing a secure gatekeeper to your footage.
The latest function, coming soon to the ELEMENTS Client, will allow users to mount cloud workspaces. This means that users will be able to access the contents of the Backblaze B2 Bucket as if it were a local drive. With optional access logging, users will have the ability to access the cloud-stored content while admins can maintain a high level of security.

Bringing Independent Cloud Storage to the ELEMENTS Platform

Offering B2 Cloud Storage as a native option within the ELEMENTS platform brings a whole new type of cloud offering to Elements’ users. We’re eager to see how creatives use an easier, more affordable, independent option in their workflows.

Learn More About this Solution Live in Amsterdam

If you’re attending the 2022 IBC Conference in Amsterdam, join us at stand 7.B06 to learn about integrating B2 Cloud Storage into your workflow. You can schedule a meeting here.

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Announcing Backblaze B2 Object Lock for MSP360: Enhanced Ransomware Protection

Post Syndicated from Jennifer Newman original https://www.backblaze.com/blog/announcing-backblaze-b2-object-lock-for-msp360/

The potential threat of ransomware is something every modern business lives with. It’s a frightening prospect, but it’s a manageable risk with technology that’s readily available on many major platforms. Today, we’re adding one more tool to that list: we’re excited to announce that our long-time partners at MSP360 have now made Backblaze B2 Object Lock functionality available to customers that use B2 Cloud Storage as cloud tier for their backup data.

How Backblaze B2 Object Lock Works with MSP360 Data

Backups are the last line of defense against cyberattacks and accidental data loss. From ransomware attacks to hacking unattended devices, there are plenty of attack vectors available to cybercriminals, not to mention the very real risk of human error. But, when activated by an IT admin in MSP360 Managed Backup 6.0, Backblaze B2 Object Lock provides an additional layer of security to a business’ backups by blocking deletion or modification by anyone (including admins) during a user-defined retention period. Object Lock puts the data in an immutable state—it’s accessible and usable, but it can’t be changed or trashed. For anyone worried about attacks on their last line of defense, this is a huge relief. It’s also increasingly a requirement, as it’s becoming more common to request immutability as proof of compliance for many industries with strict standards.

“Our customers have clients operating in a range of IT environments. With whatever we do, we want to keep that in mind and ensure we provide our customers with options. Offering Backblaze B2 Object Lock to our customers provides them another tool in the fight against ransomware, arguably still cybersecurity’s biggest challenge.”—Brian Helwig, CEO, MSP360

How to Use Object Lock with MSP360 Today

If you’re already using Backblaze B2 as a cloud storage tier for MSP360 and you’re running the latest version, you can choose to enable Object Lock when you create a new bucket. If you’re interested in checking out the joint solution now that Object Lock is enabled, you can learn more here.

“MSP360 has been a long-time partner of Backblaze and continues to impress us with their commitment to delivering a well-rounded platform to customers. We’re very happy to extend Backblaze B2 Object Lock to MSP360’s customers to meet their security, disaster recovery, and cloud storage needs.”—Nilay Patel, Vice President, Sales & Partnerships, Backblaze

Want to Learn More About Object Lock?

Protecting data is one of our favorite things, so, appropriately, we’ve written about the value of Object Lock quite a bit. You can learn more about the basics in this general guide to Object Lock. If you’re interested in how this feature will integrate into your existing security policy, you can read about adding Object Lock to your IT security policy here.

And if you want to hear more from the experts on the subject, register for our webinar, Cybersecurity and the Public Cloud: Cloud Backup Best Practices on September 21. The webinar features John Hill, Cybersecurity Expert; Troy Liljedahl, Director of Solutions Engineering at Backblaze; and David Gugick, VP Product Management at MSP360, and you’ll learn about a few of the common security concerns facing you today as you back up data into the public cloud. If you can’t join us live, the webinar will be available on demand on the Backblaze BrightTALK channel.

We hope these guides can be useful for you, but drop a comment if there’s anything else we can cover.

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Get a Clear Picture of Your Data Spread With BackBlaze and DataIntell

Post Syndicated from Jennifer Newman original https://www.backblaze.com/blog/get-a-clear-picture-of-your-data-spread-with-backblaze-and-dataintell/

Do you know where your data is? It’s a question more and more businesses have to ask themselves, and if you don’t have a definitive answer, you’re not alone. The average company manages over 100TB of data. By 2025, it’s estimated that 463 exabytes of data will be created each day globally. That’s a massive amount of data to keep tabs on.

But understanding where your data lives is just one part of the equation. Your next question is probably, “How much is it costing me?” A new partnership between Backblaze and DataIntell can help you get answers to both questions.

What Is DataIntell?

DataIntell is an application designed to help you better understand your data and
storage utilization. This analytic tool helps identify old and unused files and gives better
insights into data changes, file duplication, and used space over time. It is designed to
help you manage large amounts of data growth. It provides detailed, user friendly, and accurate analytics of your data use, storage, and cost, allowing you to optimize your storage and monitor its usage no matter where it lives—on-premises or in the cloud.

How Does Backblaze Integrate With DataIntell?

Together, DataIntell and Backblaze provide you with the best of both worlds. DataIntell allows you to identify and understand the costs and security of your data today, while Backblaze provides you with a simple, scalable, and reliable cloud storage option for the future.

“DataIntell offers a unique storage analysis and data management software which facilitates decision making while reducing costs and increasing efficiency, either for on-prem, cloud, or archives. With Backblaze and DataIntell, organizations can now manage their data growth and optimize their storage cost with these two simple and easy-to-use solutions.
—Olivier Rivard, President/CTO, DataIntell

How Does This Partnership Benefit Joint Customers?

This partnership delivers value to joint customers in three key areas:

  • It allows you to make the most of your data wherever it lives, at speed, and with a 99.9% uptime SLA—no cold delays or speed premiums.
  • You can easily migrate on-premises data and data stored on tape to scalable, affordable cloud storage.
  • You can stretch your budget (further) with S3-compatible storage predictably priced at a fraction of the cost of other cloud providers.

“Unlike legacy providers, Backblaze offers always-hot storage in one tier, so there’s no juggling between tiers to stay within budget. By partnering with DataIntell, we can offer a cost-effective solution to joint customers looking to simplify their storage spend and data management efforts.”
—Nilay Patel, Vice President of Sales and Partnerships, Backblaze

Getting Started With Backblaze B2 and DataIntell

Are you looking for more insight into your data landscape? Contact our Sales team today to get started.

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Do More With Your Data With the Backblaze + Aparavi Joint Solution

Post Syndicated from Jennifer Newman original https://www.backblaze.com/blog/do-more-with-your-data-with-the-backblaze-aparavi-joint-solution/

It’s almost a guarantee that no data analyst, data manager, CIO, or CEO for that matter, ever uttered the words, “I wish we did less with our data.” You always want to do more—squeeze more value out of it, learn more from it, and make it work harder for you.

Aparavi helps customers do just that. The cloud-based platform is designed to unlock the value of data, no matter where it lives. Backblaze’s new partnership with Aparavi offers joint customers simple, scalable cloud storage services for unstructured data management. Read on to learn more about the partnership.

What Is Aparavi?

Aparavi is a cloud-based data intelligence and automation platform that helps customers identify, classify, optimize, and move unstructured data no matter where it resides. The platform finds, automates, governs, and consolidates distributed data easily using deep intelligence. It ensures secure access for modern data demands of analytics, machine learning, and collaboration, connecting business and IT to transform data into a competitive asset.

How Does Backblaze Integrate With Aparavi?

The Aparavi Data Intelligence and Automation Platform and Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage together provide data lifecycle management and universal data migration services. Joint customers can choose Backblaze B2 as a destination for their unstructured data.

“We are very excited about our partnership with Backblaze. This partnership will combine Aparavi’s automated and continuous data movement with Backblaze B2’s simple, scalable cloud storage services to help companies know and visualize their data, including the impact of risk, cost, and value they may or may not be aware of today.”
—Adrian Knapp, CEO and Founder, Aparavi

How Does This Partnership Benefit Joint Customers?

The partnership delivers in three key value areas:

  • It facilitates redundant, obsolete, trivial—commonly referred to as ROT—data cleanup, helping to reduce on-premises operational costs, redundancies, and complexities.
  • It recognizes personally identifiable information to deliver deeper insights into organizational data.
  • It enables data lifecycle management and automation to low-cost, secure, and highly available Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage.

“Backblaze helps organizations optimize their infrastructure in B2 Cloud Storage by eliminating their biggest barrier to choosing a new provider: excessive costs and complexity. By partnering with Aparavi, we can take that to the next level for our joint customers, providing cost-effective data management, storage, and access.”
—Nilay Patel, Vice President of Sales and Partnerships, Backblaze

Getting Started With Backblaze B2 and Aparavi

Ready to do more with your data affordably? Contact our Sales team today to get started.

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Level Up Your Backup Game With Backblaze and Veritas

Post Syndicated from Jennifer Newman original https://www.backblaze.com/blog/level-up-your-backup-game-with-backblaze-and-veritas/

If you’re using Veritas’ Backup Exec, you’re already ahead of the game when it comes to your data backup and recovery approach. Now, you can power up your backup strength by adding Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage as a destination for your Backup Exec data.

The joint solution offers easy, affordable, S3-compatible object storage to customers who use Backup Exec to streamline their data backup and recovery approach. Read on to learn more about this partnership and how it can benefit your business.

Backblaze and Veritas: In Person at VMware Explore 2022

Want to learn more? Stop by booth 1501 at VMware Explore 2022, August 29–September 1. You can visit with our technical experts, see demos, and learn more about how Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage seamlessly integrates with Veritas Backup Exec. Or, schedule a meeting using this link to talk about solutions tailored to your business needs.

What Is Veritas Backup Exec?

The Veritas Backup Exec service helps businesses protect almost any data on any storage device—tape, servers, or in the cloud. By unifying backup management in one panel, it creates a simple, customizable approach to managing backups and orchestrating recovery that can benefit everyone from the local bakery, to a regional school district, to large government units.

How Does Backblaze Integrate With Backup Exec?

Customers have regularly asked for Backblaze to be accepted into the Veritas Technology Partner Program. Being able to seamlessly integrate Veritas with Backblaze B2 is a big win for these customers who’ve long been looking for an easy, affordable solution that helps them manage infrastructure costs.

Beginning today, any business or institution using Backup Exec can configure their data to back up to B2 Cloud Storage. IT teams can rest easy, knowing that remote offices, Linux and Unix workloads, virtual or Microsoft workloads, and more, are protected and immediately available if they need them—all configurable in a few clicks and at one-fifth the price of traditional storage vendors, with no data retention minimums or other lock-in fees.

“The Backup Exec service empowers small and medium-sized businesses to do more with less, and to minimize their daily lift around data management and protection. This aligns perfectly with our mission to make storing and using data astonishingly easy—especially for IT teams that already have a ton on their plate.”
—Nilay Patel, VP of Sales & Partnerships, Backblaze

How Does This Partnership Benefit Joint Customers?

The partnership delivers in three key value areas:

  • Simplification: Backup Exec provides a simple, unified user interface that removes complexity from data protection. Backblaze B2 is configurable in a few easy steps.
  • Hybrid-cloud adoption: The capital and personnel expense of purchasing and managing on-prem data storage can be challenging. Veritas and Backblaze put cloud adoption within reach—for backups, workloads, infrastructure, recovery, or everything together.
  • Cost reduction: Backup Exec makes configuring backups easy, which means that businesses can fine-tune their storage bill in line with their budgets. With B2 Cloud Storage priced at one-fifth of traditional cloud vendors—the combination offers a powerful tool to businesses that want to optimize their spend.

“Our goal with Backup Exec is to provide a simple, powerful solution that frees business owners from concerns about data loss. Backblaze is a natural partner in this effort and we’re excited to work with them to bring the value of cloud backup to a larger group of businesses and institutions.”
—Jason Von Eberstein, Senior Principal Product Manager of Veritas

Bonus Points: Veritas + Carahsoft + Backblaze = Public Sector Success

Backblaze recently announced a partnership with Carahsoft to help public sector CIOs optimize their cloud spend. Carahsoft is the Master Government Aggregator™ for the IT industry. The partnership—which was enabled by our recent launch of a capacity-based pricing bundle, Backblaze B2 Reserve—solves both the budgeting and procurement challenges public sector CIOs are facing. And Carahsoft is a strategic distributor for Veritas, so public sector customers can take advantage of the joint solution as well.

About Veritas

Veritas enables organizations to harness the power of their information, with solutions designed to serve the world’s largest and most complex heterogeneous environments. Veritas’s industry-leading solutions cover all platforms with backup and recovery, business continuity, software-defined storage, and information governance.

Getting Started With Backblaze B2 and Veritas

Ready to take your backup game to the next level? Click here to get started today and check out our Knowledge Base article for detailed instructions.

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A Refreshing Partnership: Backblaze and SoDA

Post Syndicated from Jennifer Newman original https://www.backblaze.com/blog/a-refreshing-partnership-backblaze-and-soda/

Editor’s Note: SoDA and Backblaze will be at NAB 2022 and would love to tell you more about our joint solution—offering data analysis and movement, FREE during initial migration—at NAB. Set up a meeting here.

Moving all your stuff is one of the most paralyzing projects imaginable. Which is why professional movers are amazing: one tackles the dishes, a couple folks hit the mattresses and closets. And there’s one guy (probably the rookie) who gets assigned to the junk drawers and odd gadgets. Suddenly, your old house is empty and your life is safe and orderly in boxes moving across the country.

Now imagine moving your businesses’ most valuable data across the country or the world—whether it’s the organization, the security, the budgeting, or all of the above and then some—it can be absolutely paralyzing, even when your current data storage approach is holding you back and you know you need to make a change.

This is where SoDA comes in.

Essentially your professional movers in the cloud, the SoDA team analyzes your cloud or on-prem infrastructure and then orchestrates the movement, replication, or syncing of data to wherever you want it to go—limiting any downtime in the process and ensuring your data is secure in flight and structured exactly as you need it in its new home. If deciding where to send data is an issue, they’ll use the analysis of your existing setup to scope the best solution by value for your business.

The Backblaze and SoDA Partnership leverages SoDA’s data movement services to unlock Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage’s value for more businesses. The partnership offers the following benefits:

  • A cost analysis of your existing storage infrastructure.
  • A “dry run” feature that compares existing storage costs to new storage costs and any transfer costs so you “know before you go.”
  • The ability to define policies for how the data should move and where.
  • Flexibility to move, copy, sync, or archive data to Backblaze B2.
  • Migration and management via the Backblaze S3 Compatible API—easily migrate data, and then develop and manage both on-prem and cloud data via the API going forward.

Why Should You Try Backblaze and SoDA?

First: Backblaze will pay for SoDA’s services for any customer who agrees to migrate 10TB or more and commit to maintaining at least 10TB in Backblaze B2 for a minimum of one year.*

People don’t believe this when we tell them, but we’ll say it again: You won’t receive an invoice for your initial data migration, ever.

If that’s not reason enough to run a proof of concept, here’s more to think about:

Moving a couple of files to the cloud is easy peasy. But what happens if you have billions of files structured in multiple folders across multiple storage locations? You could use legacy tools or command line tools, but all of the scripting and resource management for the data in flight will be on you. You’re smart enough to do it, but if someone else is willing to pay the metaphorical movers, why deal with the hassle?

With SoDA, you do not have to worry about any of it. You define your source locations, define your destination Backblaze B2 bucket and start a transfer. SoDA takes care of the rest. That is truly easy peasy.

An Example of the Backlaze and SoDA Value Proposition

One customer we recently worked with was managing data in their own data center and having issues with reliability and SLAs for current customers. They needed availability at 99.999% as well as cost-effectiveness for future scaling. They identified Backblaze B2 as a provider that checked both boxes and Backblaze recommended SoDA for the move. The customer migrated 1PB of data (over a billion files) into B2 Cloud Storage. Other than making the decision and pointing where the data should go, the customer didn’t have to lift a finger.

Try It Today

If you’re not convinced yet, the SoDA and Backblaze teams are ready to make your life easier at any time. You can schedule a meeting here. Or you can check out the Quickstart guide to explore the solution today.

*Conditions may apply.

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Bring Your File System to the Cloud With Backblaze + CTERA

Post Syndicated from Jennifer Newman original https://www.backblaze.com/blog/bring-your-file-system-to-the-cloud-with-backblaze-ctera/

You know your file system. You love your file system (suspend your disbelief for a moment). You can find what you need (mostly). The hierarchy makes sense (kind of). Anyway—the point is, it’s convenient and it works.

You also know object storage offers scalability and cost savings that you’d love to tap into to either replace or extend your on-premises file servers or NAS. But how do you move your data to the cloud safely and securely without overhauling your entire file system to work with object storage?

Through a new partnership with CTERA, you can extend your corporate file system to Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage while maintaining all of your existing permissions, file structures, and security protocols.

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The joint solution unlocks meaningful opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises. Through the partnership, you can:

  • Store all of your unstructured data in one centralized place, while maintaining instant and reliable access.
  • Retire legacy file servers and NAS devices along with the time and expense required to maintain them.
  • Empower a remote workforce and multi-site collaboration.
  • Establish a resilient disaster recovery, business continuity, and ransomware mitigation plan.
  • Optimize your budget with pay-as-you-go cloud storage pricing that’s a quarter the price of equivalent offerings.

“If you’re tired of buying new equipment every three years; replacing hard drives; paying for maintenance, or power, or space in a data center; and all of the headaches of managing remote user access, then the CTERA and Backblaze partnership is perfect for you. The setup is incredibly easy and the immediate budget and staffing relief will give you resources to tackle new opportunities. You’ll never have to—or want to—upgrade your NAS again.”
—Nilay Patel, VP of Sales, Backblaze

How It Works

CTERA’s Enterprise File Services Platform, through their core global file system technology, extends the capabilities of traditional NAS and file servers to the cloud. The joint solution provides fast local file access via cached files in CTERA’s Edge Filers, while storing the primary copy of your data in hot storage with Backblaze B2 for just $5/TB per month with a 99.9% uptime SLA.

Users across your enterprise have access to shared files via their Windows, Mac, or mobile devices, and data generated at the edge is automatically backed up to Backblaze B2 and accessible across your organization. The flexibility and extensibility of the Backblaze B2 + CTERA partnership consolidates your remote IT infrastructure and reduces the burden on your IT team to manage remote devices.

For customers that have distributed sites across the U.S. and EU, regions can be defined within CTERA and Backblaze B2 to ensure data is GDPR compliant. CTERA also offers an SDK for developers, enabling them to automatically configure Edge Filers and synchronize to Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage using infrastructure as code.

“We’re seeing a massive shift from traditional NAS to cloud NAS, from edge to core access, as organizations evolve and expand. CTERA is committed to providing the widest choice of cloud to our customers. The Backblaze-CTERA partnership establishes a compelling, new, cost-effective storage option for companies that wish to tier their data to the cloud for redundancy and collaboration.”
—Oded Nagel, Chief Strategy Officer, CTERA

About CTERA

CTERA is the edge-to-cloud file services leader, powering more than 50,000 connected sites and millions of corporate users. CTERA offers the industry’s most feature-rich global file system, enabling enterprises to centralize file access from any edge location or device without compromising performance or security. The CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform makes it easy for organizations to consolidate legacy NAS, backup and disaster recovery systems, and collaboration platforms while reducing costs by up to 80% versus legacy solutions. CTERA is trusted by the world’s largest companies, including McDonald’s, GE, Unilever, and Live Nation, as well as the U.S. Department of Defense and other government organizations worldwide.

Interested in Learning More?

Join us for a webinar on April 27, 2022 at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST to discover how to tier your file structure intelligently into Backblaze B2 with CTERA—register here. Anyone interested in exploring the solution today can check out the CTERA Solution Brief.

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