“We wanted to be more strategic and only back up what we need. We pushed to not use the university’s backup provider not only because it was expensive, but because it was saving all of this ‘noise’ in perpetuity.”

"There’s a choice to say ‘IT only supports files that are put into the shared drive’. But if you imagine yourself saying that to a teacher who comes to you for help after losing all the files on his desktop, you quickly understand relying on the shared drive is not …

"I tested two of the methods (for restore), downloading and the USB drive, and found that both worked perfectly and quickly. I was even able to restore files backed up from the Mac on one of my Windows 8 computers. And I was also able to retrieve files from my …

"We wanted to migrate away from LTO tape because retrievals were a manual process. I’m not onsite full-time, but I was the gatekeeper for content on several hundred LTO tapes. We needed our creative team members to be able to login and search for assets themselves."

"Restoring from B2 was fast, as fast as our internet connection could go."

"For a managed service provider, a good backup makes everything less stressful."

“Backblaze is my favorite online backup service, mostly because everything about it is so simple, especially its pricing and software.”

"Backblaze B2 was the tipping point in enabling us to move to cloud storage."

"We would not have been able to get this project off the ground without the B2 Fireball."

“no other cloud backup system that I know of would have automatically backed up that file.”

"I was the only guy in the water covering Battle of the Paddle in 2008. That footage is worth so much to me — not monetarily but for historical value to the sport. That one single hard drive contains footage that is irreplaceable. If that drive were lost it would …

“We’ve become a big enough player in our market that clients come back to shoot more, and want all their old content back, even if it’s been years.”

“We want to keep up on the latest tech trends for keeping data safe and using the cloud.”

“The affordability and performance of Backblaze B2 is what allowed us to make the B2 cloud part of the APT data storage and distribution strategy into the future.”

"Backblaze B2 was 50% less expensive than the current in-house solution."