New NAS models from Synology will be able to back themselves up to B2, and the storage hardware company will be updating many of its recent storage devices to support that capability, too.īusinesses that use Cloudberry to do their cloud backup can now also use B2 through that service, building on its integrations with other providers including Amazon and Microsoft.

It's similar to a service that Backblaze already offers customers of its cloud backup service, which allows them to get files from their computer mailed to them in the event they need physical access to that information.Īs part of this launch, Backblaze also revealed a quartet of partnerships for B2, including an integration with network attached storage provider Synology. B2 users can take advantage of a “Snapshot” feature that lets them select up to 3.5TB of files stored with Backblaze and get that mailed to them on a physical hard drive for US$189. In addition, companies can now more easily get their data out of Backblaze’s cloud. There’s really nothing redeeming about tape, except for cost.” “And in almost all of those cases, everyone that uses them hates them, and has for a long time. “There are still just hundreds and hundreds of petabytes of tape that get deployed ,” he said in an interview. According to Backblaze CEO Gleb Budman, the company has shifted away from trying to steal customers away from S3 and other storage services, and towards eliminating companies’ reliance on tape-based storage.

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