Now the company plans to sell that same cheap storage to developers. This low-cost storage means that the company can offer its $5/month unlimited size backup plan profitably. It currently has more than 150 petabytes of storage. Backblaze has designed (and documented) its storage hardware for the lowest possible cost, using software to provide the necessary protection against failures.
We've written about the company's hard disk reliability data a few times over the years the company has found that regular consumer hard drives are more than up to the demands of providing cloud storage, though there is substantial variation between the different manufacturers and models.
But where those services charge 2¢ or more per gigabyte per month, Backblaze is pricing its service at just half a cent per gigabyte per month.īackblaze's business is cheap storage. Online backup provider Backblaze is branching out today with a new business: an infrastructure-as-a-service-style cloud storage API that's going head to head with Amazon's S3, Microsoft's Azure, and Google Cloud Storage.
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