{{Short description|Backup and cloud hosting company}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2021}} {{Infobox company | name = Backblaze, Inc. | logo = Backblaze Logo.svg | hq_location = San Mateo, California, U.S. | key_people = {{Unbulleted list|Gleb Budman (CEO) |Marc Suidan (Chief financial officer, 2024-)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Backblaze |date=2024-08-16 |title=Welcoming Chief Financial Officer Marc Suidan to Backblaze |url=https://www.backblaze.com/blog/welcoming-chief-financial-officer-marc-suidan-to-backblaze/ |access-date=2026-01-26 |website=Backblaze Blog {{!}} Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup |language=en-US}}</ref>}} | products = {{Unbulleted list|Cloud storage|File backups}} | type = Public | traded_as = {{NASDAQ|BLZE}} | industry = {{Unbulleted list|Online backup service|Cloud storage}} | founded = {{Start date and age|2007|04|20|p=yes}} | founders = {{Unbulleted list|Gleb Budman|Billy Ng|Nilay Patel|Brian Wilson|Casey Jones|Tim Nufire|Damon Uyeda}} | revenue = {{increase}} {{US$|102 million|link=yes}} (2023) | operating_income = {{decrease}} {{US$|-58 million}} (2023) | net_income = {{nowrap|{{decrease}} {{US$|-60 million}} (2023)}} | assets = {{decrease}} {{US$|132 million}} (2023) | equity = {{decrease}} {{US$|44.9 million}} (2023) | num_employees = 381 (December 2023) | website = {{URL|www.backblaze.com}} | footnotes = <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1462056/000146205624000033/blze-20231231.htm |title=Backblaze, Inc. 2023 Annual Report (Form 10-K) |date=1 April 2023 |publisher=U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission |pages=6, 55–56}}</ref> }}
'''Backblaze, Inc.''' is an American cloud storage and data backup company based in San Mateo, California. It was founded in 2007 by Gleb Budman and others.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mellor |first=Chris |date=2022-12-13 |title=Back up a minute: Backblaze on SMR, storage tiers, and Web3 |url=https://blocksandfiles.com/2022/12/13/backblaze-ceo/ |access-date=2022-12-23 |website=Blocks and Files |language=en-US}}</ref> Its services are intended for both business and personal markets.
== History == Backblaze was established in 2007 in San Mateo, California.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Novet |first=Jordan |title=Amazon cloud storage challenger Backblaze files to go public |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/cloud-object-storage-company-backblaze-files-to-go-public.html |access-date=2022-08-19 |website=CNBC |date=18 October 2021 |language=en}}</ref> In 2008, the company released online backup services to support PCs running Apple's macOS and Microsoft's Windows.<ref name=":0" />
In October 2021, Backblaze filed to go public on the Nasdaq under the symbol BLZE.<ref name=":0" /> In November, the company launched its public IPO.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Backblaze Stock Could Be The Next Cloudflare In The Making (NASDAQ:BLZE) |url=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4471154-backblaze-could-be-the-next-cloudflare-in-the-making |access-date=2022-08-19 |website=seekingalpha.com |date=22 November 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
Backblaze and Catalogic, a data protection vendor, announced their partnership in March 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fay |first=Joe |date=2022-03-14 |title=Catalogic partners with Backblaze to tackle ransomware and tape maintenance |url=https://blocksandfiles.com/2022/03/14/catalogic-partners-with-backblaze-to-tackle-ransomware-and-tape-maintenance/ |access-date=2022-09-21 |website=Blocks and Files |language=en-US}}</ref>
Since 2013, Backblaze has reported quarterly reliability statistics for its data center hard drives, showing annual failure rates for each model.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-02-01 |title=Backblaze HD reliability stats show oldies can be goodies |url=https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/01/backblaze_hd_reliability_stats_show/ |access-date=2023-07-26 |website=The Register |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-01-31 |title=Backup Company Reveals Hard Drive Failure Rates For 2022 |url=https://www.tomshardware.com/news/backblaze-hdd-failure-rates-2022 |access-date=2023-07-26 |website=Tom's Hardware |language=en-US}}</ref> Backblaze’s public hard-drive dataset has also been used in academic research; a 2026 study in IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing used the dataset to estimate differences in hard-drive reliability across manufacturers.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Siemroth |first=Christoph |last2=Park |first2=Yeomyung |date=2026 |title=Are There Manufacturer Differences in Hard-Drive Reliability? |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11458693/ |journal=IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing |pages=1–10 |doi=10.1109/TCC.2026.3679404 |issn=2168-7161|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
On November 28, 2025, Backblaze announced a strategic integration with Shareio, a new platform enabling creators to monetize and protect their digital content. <ref>https://www.marketscreener.com/news/backblaze-b2-cloud-storage-partners-with-shareio-s-creator-monetization-platform-ce7d5edbdc80f023</ref>
Backblaze has six data centers; four in the United States, one in Canada and one in Europe.<ref>{{cite press release |title=Backblaze Opens New US East Data Region |url=https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2022/12/13/2572902/0/en/Backblaze-Opens-New-US-East-Data-Region.html |website=globenewswire.com |date=13 December 2022 |access-date=12 January 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=27 August 2019 |title=Backblaze opens data center in Amsterdam, retains same pricing as US |url=https://www.techrepublic.com/article/backblaze-opens-data-center-in-amsterdam-retains-same-pricing-as-us/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190914054320/https://www.techrepublic.com/article/backblaze-opens-data-center-in-amsterdam-retains-same-pricing-as-us/ |archive-date=2019-09-14 |access-date=27 August 2019 |website=TechRepublic.com}}</ref>
As of April 2025, Backblaze has been reporting losses every quarter ever since going public in November 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Harding |first=Scharon |date=2025-04-28 |title=Backblaze responds to claims of “sham accounting,” customer backups at risk |url=https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/backblaze-responds-to-claims-of-sham-accounting-customer-backups-at-risk/ |access-date=2026-01-27 |website=Ars Technica |language=en}}</ref>
==Products== Backblaze's first product was its computer backup, offering users to back up their computer data continuously and automatically with a monthly subscription service.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/02/backblaze-online-backup-with-time-machines-finesse/ |title=Backblaze: Online Backup With Time Machine's Finesse |publisher=TechCrunch |date=2 June 2008 |accessdate=28 March 2016}}</ref>
In September 2015, Backblaze launched a new product, B2 Cloud Storage. Being an infrastructure as a service (IaaS), it is targeted at software integration for different kinds of businesses.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lardinois |first=Frederic |date=2016-06-28 |title=Backblaze launches its low-cost cloud storage service out of beta |url=https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/28/backblaze-launches-its-low-cost-cloud-storage-service-and-s3-competitor-out-of-beta/ |access-date=2022-10-18 |website=TechCrunch |language=en-US}}</ref>
In May 2020, Backblaze released an Amazon S3-compatible API, allowing customers to use existing tools and applications with B2 Cloud Storage without rewriting them.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lardinois |first=Frederic |date=2020-05-04 |title=Backblaze challenges AWS by making its cloud storage S3 compatible |url=https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/04/backblaze-challenges-aws-by-making-its-cloud-storage-s3-compatible/ |access-date=2023-01-20 |website=TechCrunch |language=en-US}}</ref> In May 2022, Backblaze released its cloud replication services, which allow customers to back up and store data in a location that is geographically separate from the data's primary location.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sawers |first=Paul |date=2022-06-07 |title=Backblaze launches 'cloud replication' to help companies store and sync data across regions |url=https://venturebeat.com/cloud/backblaze-launches-cloud-replication-to-help-companies-store-and-sync-data-across-regions/ |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=VentureBeat |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Backblaze B2 offers cross-continent Cloud Replication service |url=https://www.techtarget.com/searchstorage/news/252521171/Backblaze-B2-offers-cross-continent-Cloud-Replication-service |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=TechTarget |language=en}}</ref>
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