Name: [Ep.18] Founders Spotlight: Gleb Budman, CEO, Backblaze
Start: 2018-08-01T16:00:00Z
End: 2018-08-01T16:46:54.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 5

Backblaze is a leading independent cloud provider that makes it astonishingly easy for people to store, protect, and use their data. Its B2 Cloud Storage platform offers always-hot, S3 compatible object storage that’s readily available through APIs, CLI, Web UI, and 3rd party integrations--to seamlessly support ranging workflows and fit hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, and other IaaS strategies. Its computer backup solutions offer automatic data protection for business fleets and home Mac and PC. We're here on BrightTalk to unpack product and solution updates, discuss best practices around data storage and protection, and openly share hard drive stats based on our experience spinning >200,000 drives. Thanks for joining us.

Media workflows face unique challenges, such as managing data growth, collaborating with remote team members, and accessing files—all while ensuring data security. These challenges can result in inefficiencies, delays, and decreased productivity. However, with the right tools, media workflows can be optimized for improved collaboration, easy file access and sharing, resulting in increased productivity across the organization. 

Join media experts James Flores and Xris Nil, as well as Vinodh Subramanian, as they talk about how to optimize media workflows in remote media and entertainment teams to unlock media collaboration with hybrid cloud storage. 

Plus, we’re giving away a Synology two-bay NAS device (Model: DS220+) and $100 credit for Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage to one lucky attendee. Don’t miss the chance to win!

Presented by:

• Xris Nil, Technical Account Manager, Synology
• James Flores, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Backblaze
• Vinodh Subramanian, Product Marketing Manager, Backblaze 

By registering to this event you agree to receive more information about Backblaze, Synology and possibly other partnership products and services. If you decide you are not interested in receiving these communications you will always have the option to opt-out of receiving them by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link provided in the email.

Unlocking Media Collaboration: How To Boost Productivity on Hybrid Cloud Storage

With a global economic slowdown on the horizon, IT and development teams are looking for ways to slash cloud budgets without compromising performance. E-commerce, SaaS platforms, and streaming applications all rely on high-performant infrastructure, but balancing bandwidth and storage costs can be challenging. In this 45-minute session, we’ll explore:

• How to recession-proof your growing business with key cloud optimization strategies.

• Customer spotlight: Video streaming platform Gideo delivers petabytes of content per month while reducing OpEx by 70%.

• Ways to leverage Fastly’s CDN to balance bandwidth costs while avoiding performance tradeoffs.

• Eliminating data migration hassles and costs using Backblaze’s free Universal Data Migration service.

Balancing Cloud Cost and Performance with Fastly and Backblaze

Delivering content to your end users at scale can be challenging and costly. They expect exceptional web and mobile experiences with snappy load times and zero buffering. Anything less than an instantaneous response may cause them to bounce. In this 45-minute hands-on session, Pat Patterson will demonstrate how to efficiently scale your content delivery workflows from content ingestion, transcoding, storage, to last-mile acceleration via bunny.net CDN.

Scaling Media Delivery Workflows with bunny.net and Backblaze

Andy Klein reviews results from our 2022 Drive Stats report. He’ll share insights on our quarterly, annual, and lifetime hard drive performance and failure data. Tune in for insights, whether you’re using one hard drive or you’re responsible for a whole data center full of those spinning disks. Andy will be on hand to answer your questions, such as:

• What are the best performing drives in our data centers?
• Why do drives fail?
• What are SMART stats? 
• And more!

Backblaze Drive Stats for 2022

Backblaze B2 and Fastly are the perfect match, providing customers with cost-effective content storage, distribution, and edge computing.

Join Pat Patterson, Chief Technical Evangelist at Backblaze, and Jim Bartus, Senior Sales Engineer at Fastly as they demonstrate how to speed up content delivery for web and media streaming applications. You’ll learn about

• Mapping latency to Backblaze's US West and, newly launched, US East regions
• Utilizing Backblaze Cloud Replication to achieve more efficient content delivery
• Leveraging a Fastly Compute@Edge app to minimize latency and deliver content faster

Low Latency Multi-Region Content Delivery with Fastly and Backblaze

Are you looking to reduce your backup storage costs, migrate from tape to cloud storage, and increase your security posture? You can accomplish all of these, while protecting your backups from ransomware and providing verifiable compliance for data retention with Catalogic and Backblaze.

Join Danny Pinheiro, Senior Solutions Architect at Backblaze, and Brian Sietsma, Solutions Architect at Catalogic Software, as they demonstrate how easy it is to store your backups in cloud object storage and protect them with object lock for immutability.

During the webinar, you will learn more about:
• The cost effectiveness of cloud object storage vs. using disk or tape.
• How easy it is to configure backup products to use S3-compatible cloud object storage.
• How to proactively ensure your data is free from malware before you back it up 
• Tamper-proof backups for compliance and ransomware protection via S3 Object Lock.

We’ll end with a short demo showing how Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage with Catalogic DPX and CloudCasa offers another way to significantly lower costs, while also increasing your security posture and compliance for on-premises workloads and cloud-native Kubernetes backups.

By registering to this event you agree to receive more information about Backblaze, Catalogic and possibly other partnership products and services. If you decide you are not interested in receiving these communications you will always have the option to opt-out of receiving them by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link provided in the email.

Reduce Backup Costs and Increase Cyber Resilience with Catalogic and Backblaze

While much of the focus of phishing is focused on companies, phishing is an everyday problem for consumers. With no IT department or stacks of money to spend on anti-phishing solutions and training, home computer users are left alone to defend themselves. They are at the mercy of phishing tricks arriving almost daily in their email box meant to steal their account information, encrypt their systems with ransomware or worse. Our goal today is to provide you with a handful of simple, easy to remember tips you can use everyday to recognize and delete phishing emails before you fall prey to their scams.

Let’s Not Go Phishing Today: Simple Tips for Consumers to Avoid Being Phished

Join our Technical Evangelism Team as they guide us through the latest advancements in the Backblaze B2 Platform including: 

• IaaS Unboxed: Leveraging the independent cloud ecosystem for storage, compute, delivery, and backup, along with a customer showcase. 
• Sneak Peek: An exclusive look at the latest Hard Drive Stats reporting to inform your thinking and purchase decisions.
• Hands-On Demos: Scaling a Social App With Appwrite.io, Go Serverless With Fastly Compute@Edge, Provisioning Resources With Our Terraform Provider, Querying Data Lakes With Trino.
• More: Join the Q&A and our user community of tech leaders, IT pros, and developers like you. 

Bonus: Blazing new swag for the first 1,000 people to register and attend.

Backblaze Tech Day '22

Attendees of this webinar heard from Backblaze and Veritas experts on the benefits of moving to a hybrid cloud, such as:

• Cost-effectiveness of cloud object storage compared to employing disk or tape
• Easily configuring backup products to use S3-compatible cloud object storage
• Improving data security through a hybrid cloud

Move to a Hybrid Cloud Environment with Backup Exec

The amount of data created, captured, copied and consumed globally is rapidly increasing. As your data continues to scale over the years, it’s becoming more of a challenge for businesses like yours to manage those growing volumes effectively. As much as 80% of the data in your company’s possession is unstructured which makes it difficult to understand what’s relevant to the business, how vulnerable it is and how you can efficiently manage its lifecycle through automation.   

Join us on October 6th to learn more about how Aparavi unlocks the value of your unstructured data and efficiently manages its life lifecycle with Backblaze B2 Cloud. On this webinar we will cover: 

• Facilitating data cleanup to reduce your on-prem footprint  
• Identifying personal identifiable information (PII) to keep your company protected 
• Managing your data lifecycle experience with Aparavi's Platform paired with Backblaze's B2 Cloud Storage

Unstructured Data Management Built for Cloud Storage

Join John Hill, Cybersecurity Expert; Troy Liljedahl, Director of Solutions Engineering at Backblaze; and David Gugick, VP Product Management at MSP360, as they highlight the common security concerns facing you today as you back up data into the public cloud.

During the webinar, you will learn more about:

• Cybersecurity in the cloud and why security assessments are paramount.
• What this means for you as you create your cloud backup strategy.
• Best practices for securely backing up data to the cloud.
• MSP360 and why it’s the right choice for you.
• How to get a cybersecurity assessment of your environment and identify any gaps you have today.

The webinar will end with information on how to sign up for your free trial of MSP360 and Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage; a chance to win a Sonos Play 5; and 10 lucky individuals will receive a free copy of John’s book, “Why Your Business Must Have Cybersecurity Risk Assessments: Learn the Reasons WHY From 14 Cybersecurity Experts.”

Cybersecurity and the Public Cloud: Cloud Backup Best Practices

Media workflows require different types of storage that integrate with asset management platforms. Media assets that are being worked on actively need high-performance storage that can stream to workers wherever they are and long term storage for projects once they are complete that is simple and cost-effective. If you’re using LucidLink for high-performance storage, and iconik for asset management, Backblaze has introduced a plugin to automate tiering media content to cost-effective cloud storage for long-term archival storage that keeps it handy for immediate use when needed. Join this webinar to watch a short demo and learn how:

• To understand the complexities of media storage tiering.
• Backblaze can help you simplify your media storage movement with iconik and LucidLink.

Simplify Media Storage With Backblaze, LucidLink, and iconik

Curious about Cloud Replication and how it can enable a 3-2-1 backup strategy for your cloud-based data? This webinar covers: 

• Why Replicate: For 2x Redundancy, Compliance, Data Location, etc.
• How We Built It: Key product details and a new API layer
• UI Demo: How it works (easily)
• Live Q & A

Backblaze Cloud Replication - Unboxed

Now that you have mastered backup with Veeam®, building a solid DR plan is the next logical step. Join this session to learn about Instant Recovery in any cloud created by the partnership between Veeam, Backblaze and phoenixNap. Whether you are concerned with ransomware or natural disaster, Instant Recovery in any cloud is the solution for you. Get your DR strategy started today!

Instant Recovery in Any Cloud with Backblaze and phoenixNap

Protection of the customer data entrusted to us is paramount. Yet daily, new threats arise and we employ a wide variety of tools and techniques to stay ahead to the bad guys. One such technique is a bug bounty program. Our program is managed by Bugcrowd and is a key part of our security portfolio and we recently made the program public so that any security researcher can join. In a bug bounty program white-hat hackers help find potential vulnerabilities that we can review and, as needed, remediate them before they can be exploited by anyone else. In this webinar our panel of security experts will discuss why we decided to use employ a bug bounty program, how it fits into our security portfolio, and how you too can join in on either side: hacker or hackee.

Adding a Bug Bounty Program to our Security Portfolio

Are you looking to reduce your backup storage costs and migrate from tape to cloud storage? You can accomplish both, all while protecting your data center and Kubernetes backups from ransomware and providing verifiable compliance for data retention with Catalogic and Backblaze.  

Join Troy Liljedahl, Solutions Engineer Manager at Backblaze and William Bush, Field CTO at Catalogic Software as they demonstrate how easy it is to store your backups in cloud object storage and protect them with object lock.

During the webinar, you will learn more about:

The cost effectiveness of cloud object storage vs. using disk or tape.

How easy it is to configure backup products to use S3 compatible cloud object storage.

Compliance and ransomware protection via S3 Object Lock.

We’ll end with a short demo showing how Backblaze B2 with Catalogic DPX and CloudCasa offers another way to significantly lower costs, while also increasing security and compliance for on-premises and cloud-native Kubernetes backups.

Reduce Backup Costs and Increase Security with Catalogic and Backblaze

World Backup Day is March 31st! To help spread the word, we looked at some of the most asked backup questions on Google and we answer them here! This is a rapid-fire webinar where we'll run through some of the most asked questions (according to Google searches) and give a brief overview of the answers!

World Backup Day - Top Backup Questions Answered!

This webinar provides an overview of the essential technology that every MSP and IT Consultant should have access to and be able to provide to their clients.  Learn more about the considerations you need to make when choosing the right products and hear how Backblaze and MSP360 can help provide a seamless solution for managed backup, cloud storage, and disaster recovery.

The Essential MSP Tech Stack

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Founders Spotlight Series, where each month we feature inspiring founders and entrepreneurs from across industries.

In this episode, Gleb Budman, CEO and Co-Founder of Backblaze, will share his behind-the-scenes insight into what it's really like to found a tech startup. 

Backblaze delivers astonishingly easy and low-cost cloud storage and cloud backup services.  They currently store  over 600 petabytes of data for customers in over 150 countries and have won a spot on Deloitte's Fast 500 list three consecutive years.

Gleb is founder of three companies, leader in two startups from pre-launch through acquisition, and a seasoned executive. He is on a mission to make storing data astonishingly easy and low-cost.

[Ep.18] Founders Spotlight: Gleb Budman, CEO, Backblaze

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