Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2019
by atYevP on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @12:50PM
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Yev here from Backblaze -> the company started by providing unlimited online backup, and that's a great industry for us. About 4 years ago we released Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, which allows developers or sysadmins or enthusiasts to directly upload/retrieve data to/from our data centers. Our core competency is data storage - so while most folks do use us for a backup (either of their Mac or PC on the consumer side or servers/NAS devices with B2 Cloud storage) - what we really do is store and retrieve data.
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So you guys basically wrote your own Ceph?
Sort of, but not really, we just wrote APIs that let people talk to our pods directly. You can read about our architecture here (https://www.backblaze.com/blog/vault-cloud-storage-architect...) and check out the APIs and how we built them here (backblaze.com/b2/docs/).