We're a primary storage for many of our customers.īig Cartel, a platform for artists and other craft businesses to build e-commerce websites, was one such company looking to ease data storage costs incurred by hyperscaler infrastructure, according to Budman. 'It's a whole laundry list of things charge you for.' Business playīackblaze's Cloud Replication service targets midmarket businesses that feel like they're being overcharged for storage when using hyperscaler infrastructure, Budman said.

' are expensive and they're complicated,' Budman said. The addition of a European data center by using Backblaze also enables companies to comply with data sovereignty laws, such as the GDPR, he added.Ĭloud Replication costs $0.01 per GB to transfer, with Backblaze B2 storage costing $0.005 per GB, regardless of location or access rate.īackblaze charges a fixed data transfer fee as well as the cost of storing data in two locations, unlike the hyperscalers' model, which includes additional fees depending on transfer locations, data size and other factors, according to Budman. The Cloud Replication service enables organizations to keep copies of less used data for backup storage or protect against ransomware attacks, according to Gleb Budman, co-founder and CEO of Backblaze. 'They want to be able to protect files for people who work and collaborate from home.' Cross-continent replication 'This is definitely a business play,' he said.

Cloud Replication works among Backblaze data center regions located on the West Coast of the United States and in central Europe.īackblaze B2 users can create and remove data replication rules through their account portal.īackblaze started as a personal data backup vendor, but in the past few years, it has expanded more into the business backup and storage market by adding features and capabilities to attract more enterprise customers, said Dave Raffo, a senior analyst at Evaluator Group. Cloud Replication, which is now generally available to B2 customers, enables object data replication and distribution to Backblaze's data centers, similar to services offered by hyperscalers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.

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