For over a decade, Backblaze has been a transparent company in the opaque world of cloud data storage.  We've written on our blog about hard drive failure rates, data center internals, our open source high density storage design, and more.  Here we are on Brighttalk and each month our goal is to bring you a webcast or video that sheds some light behind the scenes of a Cloud Storage company.  And yes, we'll have a sales pitch or two the "off" weeks.  Join us when you can!

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

Now in its sixth year, the 2021 edition of the annual Backblaze Drive Stats report will be published on February 1st. This webinar will dissect that report and dig into the numbers behind the graphs and charts to shed light on the opaque world of hard drive and SSD failure rates. We’ll examine the failure rates and trends of drives by size, drive by manufacturer, and drives by model. In addition, for the first time, our webcast will cover the life expectancy of the 200,000+ hard drives we manage every day. For example, you'll learn: what are the chances that a drive you buy today will last five years - 90%, 75%, 50%? Sign up today - you won’t get this kind of information about hard drives from anywhere else.

The Backblaze Annual Drive Stats Review for 2021

Within the next ten years, ransomware costs are projected to reach $265 billion with attacks occurring every two seconds. Due to the growing number of Kubernetes deployments and the unique vulnerabilities faced by them, ransomware attacks on Kubernetes environments are sure to follow. 

Please join Elton Carneiro, Senior Director of Partnerships at Backblaze, Adam Bergh, Solution Architect, Cloud Native Technical Partnerships at Kasten by Veeam, and Natasha Rabinov, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Backblaze for a conversation about how to set up and scale ransomware protection for your Kubernetes environments today. 

During our webinar, you will learn:
• What makes Kubernetes environments susceptible to ransomware
• How to deploy reliable, scalable ransomware protection in three steps
• The value of immutable backups, as evidenced by a demo

Protect your Kubernetes Environment from Ransomware with Backblaze and Kasten

Let's dig in to the numbers and their meaning behind our Q3 2021 Drive Stats report - to be published November 2nd. Report author, Andy Klein will go behind the scenes to deliver unique and valuable insights into why drives fail, how often they fail, and which drives work best in our environment of 190,000+ drives. Whether you have one HDD or SSD, or are running your own data center, you are sure to walk away with valuable and useful information. And remember to bring your questions! See you there!

The Backblaze Hard Drive and SSD Reliability Review for Q3 2021

Jam-packed with announcements, tech talks, lessons, and more including:

• New: Partner alliances and integrations to serve more development needs
• Tour: B2 Cloud Storage architecture, APIs, SDKs, and CLI
• How-To: Backblaze + Compute + CDN for scalability and agility
• Panel: The future of microservices - sunsetting monolithic, closed ecosystems
• Next: B2 Cloud Roadmap - what we’re thinking and what you think

The first 1,000 to register and attend can also look forward to some sweet swag too!

Backblaze Developer Day

When you discover a ransomware attack on your network, scrambling to get servers up and running is the last thing you want to worry about. Instant Recovery in Any Cloud provides businesses an easy and flexible path to as-soon-as-possible disaster recovery in the event of a ransomware attack or natural disaster.

Please join Elton Carneiro, Director of Partnerships at Backblaze, Dustin Albertson, Manager of Cloud & Applications – Product Management, Alliances at Veeam, and William Bell, Executive VP, Products at phoenixNAP for a conversation about how to setup a flexible disaster recovery plan built for your budget. 

During our webinar, you will learn:
• How to protect business-critical backups from ransomware
• The advantage of on-demand disaster recovery
• How simple this solution is, as proven by a demo that only takes five minutes.

How to Be Ransomware Ready with Robust On-Demand Disaster Recovery In One Click

Daisy Zhou and her colleagues at Interpretable AI recently published a paper on how they have used the Machine Learning techniques to predict hard drive failure. Their analysis and process delivers useful insights into drive failure even with limited historical data, enabling organizations to make replacement decisions even when data collection has only recently begun. Unlike current black-box methods of drive failure prediction, the application of interpretable machine learning methods is transparent and completely understandable by humans. So much so, that previous knowledge of Machine Learning techniques is not required to enjoy and benefit from this presentation.

Using Machine Learning to Predict Hard Drive Failures

Learn how Hagerty Insurance, the world’s largest provider of classic car insurance, evolved their marketing efforts into a passion-fueled, content-driven automotive lifestyle brand. But with years of footage and a distributed team, their aging server couldn’t keep up. They needed robust, video-specific storage, easier collaboration, and reliable, off-site backup.  See how they took their workflow to the next level with solutions from OWC, iconik, and Backblaze.

Speeding Content on a Hybrid Cloud

Our newest report – to be published August 3rd – is chock-full of insights that will help inform your growing storage operation. Whether you are using one hard drive or running your own mini data center, you'll find this webinar useful and enlightening. Report author Andy Klein will discuss hard drive performance and failure data, dive deeper into the SSD v HDD discussion, and answer your questions live about:

• What are the best performing drives in our data centers
• What are the emerging trends in drive failure rates
• Why do drives fail, and more!

Backblaze Q2 2021 Drive Stats: Hard Drive and SSD Failure Stats

Learn all about our latest Computer Backup release. In v8.0 we increase the speed, improve system performance, reduce system resource usage, and make the app more intuitive! Plus a Q&A to follow!

Backblaze v8.0 Overview and Q&A

Learn backup best practices (like 3-2-1, the differences between sync and backup, and which is the right tool for the right job), go through our annual Backup Awareness Month survey results, and participate in a Q&A to discuss all things backup with Yev, Senior Director of Marketing and Computer Backup Steward at Backblaze!

The State of Backups, Best Practices, Plus a Q&A

Scalable, elastic, accessible storage is here, with our new spring platform release including more features and performance builds for development and IT use cases. Join this live talk to:

• Learn how the platform can help you run applications, safeguard files and systems, and do more—with practical, real-world examples.
• Unbox new ransomware protection and security features like Object Locks, and new software integrations
• Discuss your questions as you consider how to optimize storage, leverage multi-cloud infrastructure, and modernize your tech stack.

Store and Use Your Data with Astonishing Ease: B2 Cloud Storage Platform

Let's go beyond the blog and dig deep into the drive stats data. Andy Klein, author of the quarterly drive stats reports, will give insights into the Q1 numbers, answer your questions, and give away some prizes. Topics include:
• SSD boot drives (covered for the first time)
• Why we think failure rates have gone down over time
• Challenges with the big drives: 16TB and larger
...and more. Join us!

Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2021

Our newest report to be published January 26th covers all of 2020 - and is chock-full of insights that will help inform your growing storage operation. Report author Andy Klein will discuss the year’s drive performance data, emerging hard drive and system trends, and answer your questions live about: 
 • Impact and considerations of growing drive sizes
 • Managing drive fleet and storage pod growth
 • Emerging trends in system reliability at scale

Backblaze Hard Drive Report: 2020 Year in Review Q&A

Do you see your site or service’s growth hindered by the unnecessary costs and complexities of a closed platform? Are you unsure how to make a change with zero user-impact?  Join this live talk to learn:

      • How to avoid commonly limiting content storage and platform issues
      • Design and architecture best practices to deliver a scalable, cost-effective solution
      • How to transform storage content dynamically and deliver it faster globally
      • How to serve content resiliently while executing change and storage migration

Freeing Cloud Content with Backblaze and Fastly

How much faster could you finish projects if your workflow adapted to new demands without costly, time-consuming development? Attend this event to learn how you can automate:

• High-volume ingest and content processing using cloud compute and storage
• Proxy creation, custom tagging, and metadata extraction without undue compute costs
• Transcode and upload of files to playout servers as soon as clips are marked “approved”
• Review and approval process, and delivery to platforms like YouTube or Vimeo

Fast and Foolproof Production Workflows with CatDV

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