The Veeam integration is an interesting one. Backblaze have certainly done that on the consumer side of things, and the team assures me that they’re experiencing success with the B2 offering and their business-oriented data protection solution as well. Sometimes it’s good to be a little transparent about what you’re doing, and relying on a great product, competitive pricing, and strong support to keep customers happy. It’s not always about selling black boxes to people. It’s stuff like this that I find inspiring.
Along with the durability of the solution, the fact that Backblaze made the design open source, and inspired a bunch of companies to do something similar, is a great story.
I haven’t managed to stay with one employer longer than 7 years (maybe I’m flighty?). I keep banging on about it, but ten years feels like a long time to be hanging around in tech. There’s a nice overview of the solution that you can read here, and you can read some more comprehensive instructions here.
Backblaze and Tiger Technology have gotten together to develop an integration that allows you to use B2 storage to copy your Veeam protection data to the Backblaze cloud. So what’s all this about Veeam, Tiger Bridge, and Backblaze B2? Historically, if you’ve been using Veeam from the cheap seats, it’s been difficult to effectively leverage object storage to use as a repository for longer term data storage. They’re looking to roll this out in 2020 some time. Upgrading from 10Gbase-T to 10GbE SFP+ optical networking.Updating the power supply units, perhaps moving to one unit.Upgrade the CPU and consider using an AMD CPU.We spoke briefly about what Pod 7.0 would look like, and it’s going to be a “little bit faster”, with the following enhancements planned: And it doesn’t look like they can produce enough Flash to cope with that increase in requirements at this stage. Nonetheless, the challenge isn’t just performance, it’s also the fact that people are needing more and more capacity to store their stuff. That said, they have seen the main HDD manufacturers starting to hit a wall in terms of the capacity per drive that they can deliver. Andy pointed out that, with around 900PB under management, Flash still didn’t look like the most economical medium for this kind of storage task. I asked to Yev and Andy about where they saw the pod heading, and whether they thought there was room for Flash in the picture. That’s a long time for something to be around (and successful) in a market like cloud storage. The Backblaze Storage Pod (currently version 6) recently turned 10 years old. The Storage Pod recently turned ten years old, and I was lucky enough to have the chance to chat with Yev Pusin and Andy Klein about that news and some of the stuff they’re doing with B2, Tiger Technology, and Veeam. And not just because of their recent expansion into Europe. Backblaze has been on my mind a lot lately.
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