Backblaze
Backup and cloud hosting company
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::summary Backup and cloud hosting company ::
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| name | Backblaze, Inc. |
| logo | Backblaze Logo.svg |
| hq_location | San Mateo, California, U.S. |
| key_people | {{Unbulleted list |
| Marc Suidan (Chief financial officer, 2024-){{Cite web | last |
| products | |
| type | Public |
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| industry | |
| founded | |
| founders | |
| revenue | (2023) |
| operating_income | (2023) |
| net_income | (2023) |
| assets | (2023) |
| equity | (2023) |
| num_employees | 381 (December 2023) |
| website | |
| footnotes | |
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| 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-)}} | products = | type = Public | traded_as = | industry = | founded = | founders = | revenue = (2023) | operating_income = (2023) | net_income = (2023) | assets = (2023) | equity = (2023) | num_employees = 381 (December 2023) | website = | footnotes =
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. Its services are intended for both business and personal markets.
History
Backblaze was established in 2007 in San Mateo, California. In 2008, the company released online backup services to support PCs running Apple's macOS and Microsoft's Windows.
In October 2021, Backblaze filed to go public on the Nasdaq under the symbol BLZE. In November, the company launched its public IPO.
Backblaze and Catalogic, a data protection vendor, announced their partnership in March 2022.
Since 2013, Backblaze has reported quarterly reliability statistics for its data center hard drives, showing annual failure rates for each model.
On November 28, 2025, Backblaze announced a strategic integration with Shareio, a new platform enabling creators to monetize and protect their digital content.
Backblaze has six data centers; four in the United States, one in Canada and one in Europe.
As of April 2025, Backbaze has been reporting losses every quarter ever since going public in November 2021.
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.
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.
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. 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.
References
References
- Backblaze. (2024-08-16). "Welcoming Chief Financial Officer Marc Suidan to Backblaze".
- (1 April 2023). "Backblaze, Inc. 2023 Annual Report (Form 10-K)". [[U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission]].
- Mellor, Chris. (2022-12-13). "Back up a minute: Backblaze on SMR, storage tiers, and Web3".
- Novet, Jordan. (18 October 2021). "Amazon cloud storage challenger Backblaze files to go public".
- (22 November 2021). "Backblaze Stock Could Be The Next Cloudflare In The Making (NASDAQ:BLZE)".
- Fay, Joe. (2022-03-14). "Catalogic partners with Backblaze to tackle ransomware and tape maintenance".
- (2022-02-01). "Backblaze HD reliability stats show oldies can be goodies".
- (2023-01-31). "Backup Company Reveals Hard Drive Failure Rates For 2022".
- https://www.marketscreener.com/news/backblaze-b2-cloud-storage-partners-with-shareio-s-creator-monetization-platform-ce7d5edbdc80f023
- (13 December 2022). "Backblaze Opens New US East Data Region".
- (27 August 2019). "Backblaze opens data center in Amsterdam, retains same pricing as US".
- Harding, Scharon. (2025-04-28). "Backblaze responds to claims of “sham accounting,” customer backups at risk".
- (2 June 2008). "Backblaze: Online Backup With Time Machine's Finesse". TechCrunch.
- Lardinois, Frederic. (2016-06-28). "Backblaze launches its low-cost cloud storage service out of beta".
- Lardinois, Frederic. (2020-05-04). "Backblaze challenges AWS by making its cloud storage S3 compatible".
- Sawers, Paul. (2022-06-07). "Backblaze launches 'cloud replication' to help companies store and sync data across regions".
- "Backblaze B2 offers cross-continent Cloud Replication service".
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