Backblaze and HYCU, the fastest-growing leader in multi-cloud data protection as a service (DPaaS), are teaming up to provide businesses a complete backup solution for modern workloads with low-cost scalable infrastructure—a must-have for modern cyber resilience needs.

Read on to learn more about the partnership, how you can benefit from affordable, agile data protection, and a little bit about a relevant ancient poetic art form.

HYCU + Backblaze: The Power of Collaboration

Within HYCU’s DPaaS platform, shared customers can now select Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage—an S3 compatible object storage platform that provides highly durable, instantly available hot storage—as a destination for their HYCU backups. 

With more applications in use across the modern data center, visibility and the ability to protect that mission-critical data has never been at more of a premium. Our collaboration with Backblaze now offers joint customers a cost-effective and scalable data protection solution combining the best in backup and recovery with Backblaze’s streamlined and secure cloud storage.

—Subbiah Sundaram, SVP Product, HYCU, Inc.

The Data Sprawl Problem

On average, businesses and organizations have upwards of 200 different sets of data or “data silos” spread across a growing number of applications, databases, and physical locations. This data sprawl isn’t just hard to manage, it opens up more opportunities for cybercriminals to inject ransomware and gain access to systems. 

HYCU gives customers the power to protect every byte while also managing all their business critical data in one place. Powered by the world’s first development platform for data protection, HYCU is the only DPaaS platform that can scale to protect all of your data—wherever it resides. Most importantly, it gives customers the ability to recover from disaster almost instantly, keeping them online and in business, with an average recovery time of 10 minutes. 

By combining HYCU data protection with Backblaze B2 Storage Cloud, customers can see up to 80% lower costs in comparison to using providers like AWS for their storage, which means that combining the two can be a force multiplier for a businesses’ ability to fully protect their data and scale efficiently and reliably.

The partnership offers the following benefits:

• Performance: With a 99.9% uptime service level agreement (SLA) and no cold delays or speed premiums, storing data in Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage means joint customers have instant access to their data whenever and wherever they need it. 
• Affordability: Existing customers can reduce their total cost of ownership by switching backup tiers with interoperable S3 compatible storage, and institutions and businesses who may not have been able to afford hyperscaler-based solutions can now protect their data.
• Compliance and Security: With Backblaze B2’s Object Lock feature, the partnership also offers an additional layer of security through data immutability, which protects backups from ransomware and satisfies evolving cyber insurance requirements.

These benefits can prove particularly useful for higher education institutions, schools, state and local governments, nonprofits, and others where maximizing tight budgets is always a priority.

Making Data Protection Easier

This partnership adds a powerful new data protection option for joint customers looking to affordably back up their data and establish a disaster recovery strategy. And, this is just the beginning. Stay tuned for more from this partnership, including integrations with HYCU’s other data protection offerings in the future. 

Interested in getting started? Learn more in our docs.

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How much do you think it costs your creative team to manage data? How much time and money is spent organizing files, searching for files, and maybe never finding those files? Have you ever quantified it? One market research firm has. According to GISTICS, a creative team of eight people wastes more than $85,000 per year searching for and managing files—and larger teams waste even more than that.

Creative teams need better tools to work smarter. Backblaze has partnered with Quantum to simplify media workflows, provide easy remote collaboration, and free up on-premises storage space with seamless content archiving to the cloud. The partnership provides teams the tools needed to compete. Read on to learn more.

What Is Quantum?

Quantum is a data storage company that provides technology, software, and services to help companies make video and other unstructured data smarter—so data works for them and not the other way around. Quantum’s H4000 Essential (H4000E) asset management and shared storage solution offers customers an all-in-one appliance that integrates automatic content indexing, search, discovery, and collaboration. It couples the CatDV asset management platform with Quantum’s StorNext 7 shared storage.

How Does This Partnership Benefit Joint Customers?

By pairing Quantum H4000 Essential with Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, you get award-winning asset management and shared storage with the ability to archive to the cloud. The partnership provides a number of benefits:

• Better organization: Creative teams work visually, and the Quantum platform supports visual workflows. All content is available in one place, with automatic content indexing, metadata tagging, and proxy generation.
• Searchable assets: All content and projects are searchable in an easy to use visual catalog.
• Seamless collaboration: Teams can use production tools like Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro X, and others to work on shared projects as well as tagging, markup, versioning, chat, and approval tools to streamline collaboration.
• Robust archive management: Archived content can be restored easily from Backblaze B2 to CatDV to keep work in progress lean and focused.
• On-premises efficiency: Once projects are complete, they can be quickly archived to the cloud to free up storage space on the H4000E for high-resolution production files and ongoing projects.
• Simplified billing: Data is stored on always-hot storage, eliminating the management frustration that comes with multiple tiers and variable costs for egress and API calls.

Purchase Cloud Capacity the Same Way You Purchase On-Premises

With Backblaze B2 Reserve, you can purchase capacity-based storage starting at 20TB to pair with your Quantum H4000E if you prefer a predictable cloud spend versus consumption-based billing. Key features of B2 Reserve include:

• Free egress up to the amount of storage purchased per month.
• Free transaction calls.
• Enhanced migration services.
• No delete penalties.
• Upgraded Tera support.

Who Would Benefit From Backblaze B2 + Quantum H4000E?

The partnership benefits any team that handles large amounts of data, specifically media files. The solution can help teams with:

• Simplifying media workflows.
• Easing remote project management and collaboration.
• Cloud tiering.
• Extending on-premises storage.
• Implementing a cloud-first strategy.
• Backup and disaster recovery planning.
• Ransomware protection.
• Managing consistent data growth.

Getting Started With Backblaze B2 and Quantum H4000E

The Quantum H4000E is a highly-integrated solution for collaborative shared storage and asset management. Configured with Backblaze B2 for content archiving and retrieval, it provides new menu options to perform cloud archiving and move, copy, and restore content, freeing up H4000 local storage for high-resolution files. You can easily add on cloud storage to improve remote media workflows, content collaboration, media asset protection, and archive.

With the H4000E, everything you need to get started is in the box, ready to connect to your 10GbE and higher network. And, a simple Backblaze B2 archive plugin connects the solution directly to your Backblaze B2 account.

Simply create a Backblaze account and configure the Backblaze CatDV panel with your credentials.

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The most effective backups are the ones you never have to think about—It’s that simple. For anyone in charge of data protection—IT Admins, IT Directors, CTOs and CIOs, managed service providers, and others—driving to that level of simplicity is always the goal. A new partnership between Backblaze and Commvault brings you one step closer to achieving that goal.

Now, Commvault customers can select Backblaze B2 as a cloud storage destination for their Commvault backups and data management needs. Read on to learn more about the partnership.

What Is Commvault?

Commvault is a global leader in data management. Their Intelligent Data Services help organizations transform how they protect, store, and use data. They offer a simple, unified data management platform that spans all of a company’s data, no matter where it lives—on-premises, or in a hybrid or multi-cloud environment—or how it’s structured—in legacy applications, databases, virtual machines, or in containers.

How Does This Partnership Benefit Joint Customers?

Joint customers gain access to easy, affordable cloud storage that integrates with Commvault’s software. The partnership benefits joint customers in a few key ways:

• Quick setup: Get started with a seamless integration.
• Easy administration: Manage data in one platform.
• Better backups: Protect your data from ransomware risks, equipment failure, damage, theft, and human error.
• Faster recoveries: Restore your environment quickly in the event of a disaster.
• Affordable storage: Backblaze is ⅕ the cost of major cloud providers.

Take Advantage of Capacity-Based Pricing with Backblaze B2 Reserve

Joint customers who prefer predictable cloud spend rather than consumption-based pricing can take advantage of Backblaze B2 Reserve. The Backblaze B2 Reserve offering is capacity-based, starting at 20TB, with key features, including:

• Free egress up to the amount of storage purchased per month.
• Free transaction calls.
• Enhanced migration services.
• No delete penalties.
• Upgraded Tera support.

Customers can purchase B2 Reserve through our channel partners. If you’re interested in participating or just want to learn more, contact our Sales team.

If you’re a channel partner and Commvault is in your suite of offerings, we’d love to engage with you. Register on our Partner Portal to get started with offering Backblaze B2 as a backup target.

Customer Spotlight: How Pittsburg State Protects Data in Tornado Alley

Pittsburg State University, located in the heart of Tornado Alley in Kansas, took steps to protect their data by deploying private cloud infrastructure via Commvault Distributed Storage. They established two nodes on-premises and a third across the state for geographic separation, but they wanted another layer of protection. They added Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage giving them peace of mind that their data would be better protected from threats like ransomware. Since Backblaze is integrated with Commvault, Commvault de-duplicates the data, then sends a copy to Backblaze nightly.

“Backblaze B2 had the capability we lacked. I bolted it onto our system, so now I have off-site backup that is safe and well-protected from a regional disaster in Kansas.”
—Tim Pearson, Director for IT Infrastructure and Security, Pittsburg State University

Getting Started with Backblaze B2 and Commvault

Ready to simplify your Commvault backup storage? Check out our Commvault Quickstart Guide for a walk through on how to set up Backblaze B2 as your Commvault cloud storage target.

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Like many industries, higher education has spent the last decade discovering the transformative power of the cloud and moving into the next century. The cost savings of running a more efficient tech stack and easier access to the vital data it contains have allowed those institutions to pursue the practical and academic discoveries they were built for.

Graduating to Cloud Storage

Across the board, colleges and universities are pushing the boundaries of what cloud storage can do—and their creativity is paying huge dividends for their efficiency and security. We’ve included a few examples below that show just how these institutions have been able to maximize their cloud storage capabilities to reduce costs, modernize outdated operations, protect sensitive student and research data, and extend their ability to provide knowledge to a wider audience.

Citing Our Work

Pittsburg State: Located in Kansas, this university found themselves with nearly five decades of data in harm’s way due to the constant threat of tornadoes. Adding off-premises storage with Backblaze B2 not only gave them the geographical separation they needed, but the addition of a virtual air gap through Object Lock quadrupled their protection against ransomware.

Coast Community College District: CCCD aiming to update its data management system and eliminate costly delays from tape backups. Their existing tapes needed to be physically chauffeured between the three colleges in the district—Coastline Community College, Golden West College, and Orange Coast College—in friendly L.A. traffic. Backblaze B2’s S3 Compatible APIs made for a seamless integration with Cohesity backup.

UCSC–Silicon Valley: A 22-person video production team at the university’s online learning program, UC–Scout had quickly reached their storage capacity after archiving thousands of videos. By leveraging Backblaze B2, their IT team was able to streamline the entire production process, saving money and unleashing the team’s full creative potential.

Kanopy: The “Netflix for libraries” overhauled its tech stack in order to share its massive selection of more than 25,000 videos with thousands of schools and public libraries. After migrating to Backblaze B2, Kanopy was able to scale efficiently and rapidly accelerate content onboarding.

Gladstone Institutes: Gladstone Institutes needed an affordable, reliable backup system that would allow their researchers to focus on the life-saving developments they were pursuing in the lab. Cloud storage’s increased reliability allowed them to move away from LTO, and off-premise storage shielded their findings from the potential for natural disasters.

Office Hours—No Lectures

If you’re planning to attend EduCause ’22, you can learn more about the many possibilities Backblaze opens up in higher education. Through a new partnership between Backblaze and Carahsoft, public sector customers can now leverage their existing state, local, and federal buying programs to access Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage.

In addition to a live demo of Instant Recovery in the Veeam booth, we’re proud to sponsor the Carahsoft Happy Hour Reception. With special cocktails you won’t find anywhere else (try the “Backblaze Special;” you’ll love it), this is a great opportunity to network with fellow educators and learn more about how Backblaze can help you leverage your tech stack.

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It’s the classic “tree falls in the woods” scenario: if your company experiences data loss, but your users never feel it, did it even happen? That’s the value proposition our friends over at Quest—an IT platform that solves complex problems with simple software solutions—present with their popular Rapid Recovery tool:

Quest Rapid Recovery Version 6.7 Adds Backblaze B2 in Cloud Tier

As of today—whether you’re a Quest customer or a Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage user—you can combine all this value with the astonishingly easy cloud storage we’re known for here at Backblaze. In Quest’s 6.7 release of Rapid Recovery, navigate to Cloud Accounts in the menu (see screenshot below for menu location), click Add New Account.

Enter a display name, select B2 Cloud Storage, and choose Amazon S3 as the cloud type. Then you just need to enter your Access key (keyID), Secret Key (applicationKey), and your service endpoint URL.

Your data will be safe, useful, and affordable at a quarter of the price of legacy cloud providers. Try it out today or contact our sales team to learn more.

More About Quest’s Rapid Recovery Tool

If you’re a Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage user who is in the market for a recovery solution for your business, you can dig into the details about Rapid Recovery here. Here’s a brief primer of the solutions capabilities:

• Simplify backup and restore: One cloud-based management console allows you to restore lost or damaged systems and data with near-zero recovery time and no impact to users—an advanced, admin-friendly solution.
• Address demanding recovery point objectives (RPO): Leverage image-based snapshots for RPOs and reduce risk of data loss and downtime with tracked change blocks to accelerate backups and reduce storage.
• Wide application support: Lightning-fast recovery for file servers and applications on both Microsoft Windows and Linux systems gets business-critical applications online to keep your business rolling.
• Cloud-based backup, archive, and disaster recovery: (This is where we come in…) Point-and-click cloud connectivity makes for easy replication of application backups for no-stress cloud backup.
• Virtual environment protection: Agentless backup and recovery for Microsoft Exchange and SQL databases residing on your virtual machines and low-cost VM-only tiered licensing for on-premises and cloud virtual environments.
• Data deduplication and replication: With B2 Cloud storage, you’ll already save upwards of 75% versus other cloud storage solutions, but you can reduce costs further by leveraging built-in compression and deduplication. Nice.

More about Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage is purpose-built for ease, instant access to files and data, and infinite scalability. Backblaze B2 is priced so users don’t have to choose between what matters and what doesn’t when it comes to backup, archive, data organization, workflow streamlining, and more. Signing up couldn’t be more simple: a few clicks and you’re storing data. The first 10GB is free, and if you need more capacity to run a proof of concept you can talk to our sales team. Otherwise, when you’re ready to store data, you can pay one of two ways:

• Our per-byte consumption pricing: Only pay for what you store. It’s $5 TB/month, no hidden delete fees or gotchas. What you see is what you get.
• Our B2 Reserve capacity pricing: If you’d like to by predictable blocks of storage, you can work with any of our reseller partners to unlock the following benefits:
  • Free egress up to the amount of storage purchased per month.
  • Free transaction calls.
  • Enhanced migration services.
  • No delete penalties.
  • Tera support.

The Answer to the Question

You all can debate the philosophical implications of trees falling in woods and the sound they make. But when it comes to Rapid Recovery, it seems like we can guarantee one thing: your users might not hear the data loss when it happens, but you can bet the sight of relief your IT team breathes when they rapidly recover will be audible.

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Cloud workflows are rapidly becoming a driver of every modern media team’s day-to-day creative output. Whether it’s enabling remote shoots, distributed teams, or leveraging budgets more effectively, the cloud can deliver a ton of value to any team. But workflows, by their nature, are complex—and plenty of legacy cloud solutions only add to that complexity with tangled pricing models and limits to egress and collaboration.

ELEMENTS has been simplifying media workflows for more than a decade. Cloud storage has always been part of the ELEMENTS DNA, but they’ll be presenting revolutionary platform updates for cloud workflows in 2023 and beyond at IBC 2022. Part of this new focus on cloud solutions is their addition of an easy, transparent cloud storage option to their platform in Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage. Nimble post-production teams are always on the lookout for more straightforward and easy-to-understand cloud plans with transparent costs—this is a market that Backblaze serves more effectively than the other legacy providers accessible through the platform.

The Backblaze + ELEMENTS Integration

The ELEMENTS platform makes it simple to upload and download files straight from on-premises storage while also offering smart and fully customisable archiving workflows, cloud-based media asset management (MAM), and a number of other tools and features that remove the borders between cloud and on-premises storage. Once connected, ELEMENTS enables users to search, edit, or automate changes to media assets. This extends to team collaboration and setting rights to folders and data across the connected networks. ELEMENTS has provided an intuitive interface making this an easy-to-use solution that is designed for the M&E industry.

Connecting your Backblaze account with ELEMENTS is easy. Simply navigate to the System > Integrations menu and enter your Backblaze login credentials. After this, Backblaze B2 Buckets of the connected account can be mounted as a volume on ELEMENTS.

If you’d like to run a proof of concept with Backblaze, the first 10 GB is free and setting up a Backblaze account only takes a few clicks. Or you can contact sales for more information.

If you’re already a Backblaze B2 customer and would like to check out the ELEMENTS platform, see our Quickstart Guide here or contact ELEMENTS directly here.

Simplifying Your Workflow AND Your Budget

Backblaze focuses on end-to-end ease, including how it works in your budget. Businesses can select a pay-as-you go option or work with a reseller to access capacity plans.

B2 Cloud Storage – This is a general cloud plan for applications, backups and almost all of your business needs. The pricing is simple: $5 per TB per month + $0.01 per GB download fee. As with all plans, the files are located on one storage tier and can always be easily accessed.

B2 Reserve – This is the sweet spot for most media use cases. B2 Reserve is a cloud package starting from 20TB per month. This plan comes at a slightly higher cost than the standard B2 Cloud Storage plan but is free from egress fees up to the amount of storage purchased per month. B2 Reserve will quickly work in your favor if you plan on accessing your files regularly. NOTE: B2 Reserve is only available through resellers.

Top Benefits for Teams Using Backblaze and ELEMENTS Together

The ELEMENTS platform offers a set of robust tools that unlock time and budgets for creative teams to do more. We’ll underline how these different features can work with Backblaze B2.

Automation Engine

The ELEMENTS Automation Engine allows users to create workflows with any number of steps. This tool has a growing list of templates, two of which are Archive and Restore automations. These can be used to archive footage to Backblaze and delete it from the on-premises storage while keeping a lightweight preview proxy. If you need the original footage after previewing the proxy, triggering the Restore automation is all you need to do. The hi-res footage will automatically be downloaded from the Backblaze B2 bucket and placed onto the original location.

A huge benefit of using cloud storage through the ELEMENTS platform is that the individual users do not need to have cloud accounts or direct cloud access. Users will only be able to use the cloud features through the preset automation jobs and according to their permissions.

Media Library

Cloud technologies open up a number of new possibilities within the Media Library, our powerful, browser-based media asset management (MAM) platform.

For example, if your post-production facility has a locally-deployed media library which is running on your ELEMENTS storage and is connected to your Backblaze account, users can playback all of your footage at any time, no matter where it is stored—on-premises, in the cloud, or even in your LTO archive.

The Media Library adds a layer of functionality to the cloud and allows you to easily build a true cloud archive—one that can be accessed from anywhere, in which footage can easily be previewed and just as easily restored with a click of a button.

File Manager

The File Manager is a functionality of the ELEMENTS Web UI that allows you to browse and manage content on your storage on-premises and, very soon, in the cloud. It provides you with a clear overview of all your files, no matter how many file systems and cloud buckets you have. File Managers’ support for cloud storage means users will be able to manage all of their files in one place, without having to navigate through a host of different cloud providers’ interfaces.

ELEMENTS Client

The ELEMENTS Client is an intuitive connection manager that allows admins to decide who gets to mount what—providing a secure gatekeeper to your footage.
The latest function, coming soon to the ELEMENTS Client, will allow users to mount cloud workspaces. This means that users will be able to access the contents of the Backblaze B2 Bucket as if it were a local drive. With optional access logging, users will have the ability to access the cloud-stored content while admins can maintain a high level of security.

Bringing Independent Cloud Storage to the ELEMENTS Platform

Offering B2 Cloud Storage as a native option within the ELEMENTS platform brings a whole new type of cloud offering to Elements’ users. We’re eager to see how creatives use an easier, more affordable, independent option in their workflows.

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If you’re using Veritas’ Backup Exec, you’re already ahead of the game when it comes to your data backup and recovery approach. Now, you can power up your backup strength by adding Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage as a destination for your Backup Exec data.

The joint solution offers easy, affordable, S3-compatible object storage to customers who use Backup Exec to streamline their data backup and recovery approach. Read on to learn more about this partnership and how it can benefit your business.

What Is Veritas Backup Exec?

The Veritas Backup Exec service helps businesses protect almost any data on any storage device—tape, servers, or in the cloud. By unifying backup management in one panel, it creates a simple, customizable approach to managing backups and orchestrating recovery that can benefit everyone from the local bakery, to a regional school district, to large government units.

How Does Backblaze Integrate With Backup Exec?

Customers have regularly asked for Backblaze to be accepted into the Veritas Technology Partner Program. Being able to seamlessly integrate Veritas with Backblaze B2 is a big win for these customers who’ve long been looking for an easy, affordable solution that helps them manage infrastructure costs.

Beginning today, any business or institution using Backup Exec can configure their data to back up to B2 Cloud Storage. IT teams can rest easy, knowing that remote offices, Linux and Unix workloads, virtual or Microsoft workloads, and more, are protected and immediately available if they need them—all configurable in a few clicks and at one-fifth the price of traditional storage vendors, with no data retention minimums or other lock-in fees.

“The Backup Exec service empowers small and medium-sized businesses to do more with less, and to minimize their daily lift around data management and protection. This aligns perfectly with our mission to make storing and using data astonishingly easy—especially for IT teams that already have a ton on their plate.”
—Nilay Patel, VP of Sales & Partnerships, Backblaze

How Does This Partnership Benefit Joint Customers?

The partnership delivers in three key value areas:

• Simplification: Backup Exec provides a simple, unified user interface that removes complexity from data protection. Backblaze B2 is configurable in a few easy steps.
• Hybrid-cloud adoption: The capital and personnel expense of purchasing and managing on-prem data storage can be challenging. Veritas and Backblaze put cloud adoption within reach—for backups, workloads, infrastructure, recovery, or everything together.
• Cost reduction: Backup Exec makes configuring backups easy, which means that businesses can fine-tune their storage bill in line with their budgets. With B2 Cloud Storage priced at one-fifth of traditional cloud vendors—the combination offers a powerful tool to businesses that want to optimize their spend.

“Our goal with Backup Exec is to provide a simple, powerful solution that frees business owners from concerns about data loss. Backblaze is a natural partner in this effort and we’re excited to work with them to bring the value of cloud backup to a larger group of businesses and institutions.”
—Jason Von Eberstein, Senior Principal Product Manager of Veritas

About Veritas

Veritas enables organizations to harness the power of their information, with solutions designed to serve the world’s largest and most complex heterogeneous environments. Veritas’s industry-leading solutions cover all platforms with backup and recovery, business continuity, software-defined storage, and information governance.

Getting Started With Backblaze B2 and Veritas

Ready to take your backup game to the next level? Click here to get started today and check out our Knowledge Base article for detailed instructions.

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The potential threat of ransomware is something every modern business lives with. It’s a frightening prospect, but it’s a manageable risk with technology that’s readily available on many major platforms. Today, we’re adding one more tool to that list: we’re excited to announce that our long-time partners at MSP360 have now made Backblaze B2 Object Lock functionality available to customers that use B2 Cloud Storage as cloud tier for their backup data.

How Backblaze B2 Object Lock Works with MSP360 Data

Backups are the last line of defense against cyberattacks and accidental data loss. From ransomware attacks to hacking unattended devices, there are plenty of attack vectors available to cybercriminals, not to mention the very real risk of human error. But, when activated by an IT admin in MSP360 Managed Backup 6.0, Backblaze B2 Object Lock provides an additional layer of security to a business’ backups by blocking deletion or modification by anyone (including admins) during a user-defined retention period. Object Lock puts the data in an immutable state—it’s accessible and usable, but it can’t be changed or trashed. For anyone worried about attacks on their last line of defense, this is a huge relief. It’s also increasingly a requirement, as it’s becoming more common to request immutability as proof of compliance for many industries with strict standards.

“Our customers have clients operating in a range of IT environments. With whatever we do, we want to keep that in mind and ensure we provide our customers with options. Offering Backblaze B2 Object Lock to our customers provides them another tool in the fight against ransomware, arguably still cybersecurity’s biggest challenge.”—Brian Helwig, CEO, MSP360

How to Use Object Lock with MSP360 Today

If you’re already using Backblaze B2 as a cloud storage tier for MSP360 and you’re running the latest version, you can choose to enable Object Lock at any point on your new or existing buckets. If you’re interested in checking out the joint solution now that Object Lock is enabled, you can learn more here.

“MSP360 has been a long-time partner of Backblaze and continues to impress us with their commitment to delivering a well-rounded platform to customers. We’re very happy to extend Backblaze B2 Object Lock to MSP360’s customers to meet their security, disaster recovery, and cloud storage needs.”—Nilay Patel, Vice President, Sales & Partnerships, Backblaze

Want to Learn More About Object Lock?

Protecting data is one of our favorite things, so, appropriately, we’ve written about the value of Object Lock quite a bit. You can learn more about the basics in this general guide to Object Lock. If you’re interested in how this feature will integrate into your existing security policy, you can read about adding Object Lock to your IT security policy here.

And if you want to hear more from the experts on the subject, register for our webinar, Cybersecurity and the Public Cloud: Cloud Backup Best Practices on September 21. The webinar features John Hill, Cybersecurity Expert; Troy Liljedahl, Director of Solutions Engineering at Backblaze; and David Gugick, VP Product Management at MSP360, and you’ll learn about a few of the common security concerns facing you today as you back up data into the public cloud. If you can’t join us live, the webinar will be available on demand on the Backblaze BrightTALK channel.

We hope these guides can be useful for you, but drop a comment if there’s anything else we can cover.

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Do you know where your data is? It’s a question more and more businesses have to ask themselves, and if you don’t have a definitive answer, you’re not alone. The average company manages over 100TB of data. By 2025, it’s estimated that 463 exabytes of data will be created each day globally. That’s a massive amount of data to keep tabs on.

But understanding where your data lives is just one part of the equation. Your next question is probably, “How much is it costing me?” A new partnership between Backblaze and DataIntell can help you get answers to both questions.

What Is DataIntell?

DataIntell is an application designed to help you better understand your data and
storage utilization. This analytic tool helps identify old and unused files and gives better
insights into data changes, file duplication, and used space over time. It is designed to
help you manage large amounts of data growth. It provides detailed, user friendly, and accurate analytics of your data use, storage, and cost, allowing you to optimize your storage and monitor its usage no matter where it lives—on-premises or in the cloud.

How Does Backblaze Integrate With DataIntell?

Together, DataIntell and Backblaze provide you with the best of both worlds. DataIntell allows you to identify and understand the costs and security of your data today, while Backblaze provides you with a simple, scalable, and reliable cloud storage option for the future.

“DataIntell offers a unique storage analysis and data management software which facilitates decision making while reducing costs and increasing efficiency, either for on-prem, cloud, or archives. With Backblaze and DataIntell, organizations can now manage their data growth and optimize their storage cost with these two simple and easy-to-use solutions.
—Olivier Rivard, President/CTO, DataIntell

How Does This Partnership Benefit Joint Customers?

This partnership delivers value to joint customers in three key areas:

• It allows you to make the most of your data wherever it lives, at speed, and with a 99.9% uptime SLA—no cold delays or speed premiums.
• You can easily migrate on-premises data and data stored on tape to scalable, affordable cloud storage.
• You can stretch your budget (further) with S3-compatible storage predictably priced at a fraction of the cost of other cloud providers.

“Unlike legacy providers, Backblaze offers always-hot storage in one tier, so there’s no juggling between tiers to stay within budget. By partnering with DataIntell, we can offer a cost-effective solution to joint customers looking to simplify their storage spend and data management efforts.”
—Nilay Patel, Vice President of Sales and Partnerships, Backblaze

Getting Started With Backblaze B2 and DataIntell

Are you looking for more insight into your data landscape? Contact our Sales team today to get started.

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