Wrapping up 2024 and looking ahead to 2025

Highlights from 2024 and a look into 2025.

Thank you for being a Backblaze customer. 2024 was full of excitement here as we helped customers with their cloud storage needs around backup & archive, cyber resilience & ransomware protection, AI and application storage, media workflows, and more.   We spent hundreds of thousands of hours building out our platform and products, so I want to share some of those highlights and give you a peek into 2025.    Backblaze Cloud Platform With customers increasingly needing us for high-performance use cases, we rolled out a host of upgrades and partnerships including Internet2, MANRS, IPv6, high-performance cross-connects with various partners, and much more. The combination of these enables customers to transmit data increasingly quickly and easily, supporting our belief that customers should have their data flow freely and be available to use as they wish.   Backblaze Product Updates As we've been pulled to support larger companies and more high-performance use cases, we launched: Backblaze Event Notifications to let you automate your workflows, a feature that won the NAB Best of Show Award for Product of the Year.  B2 Live Read, patent-pending technology to enable unique media workflows in your favorite tools. Powered by Backblaze to enable MSPs, ISVs, and others to build cloud storage directly into their platforms, products, and services.  Custom Upload Timestamps to make it easier to manage data in Backblaze B2.  Scalable Application Keys to support creating multiple application keys simultaneously, dramatically increasing efficiency.  Enterprise Control for Computer Backup to support larger companies by giving administrators more acute control over the backups they manage.  We spent this past year working on the core platform to make it faster, larger, and more efficient. The result of all that work is a platform that seamlessly supports over 500,000 customers across 175 countries, storing over 3,000,000 gigabytes at one-fifth the price of traditional cloud providers.   A hot AI company recently became a customer, and their founder and CEO said, "Backblaze is an amazing solution for AI training data. We looked at a number of options and Backblaze is seriously the best."   This is what we strive for—to not only offer the best solutions for AI training data, but to be the best cloud storage solution for all of our customers' needs.    Looking Forward to 2025  In the coming year I'm excited about our product and partnership roadmaps that we're actively working on which will provide new opportunities for those using our cloud storage platform. While I can't share too much, we're starting off strong by opening our fourth data region, and look forward to continued innovations to support cyber-resilience, AI, and high-performance use cases.   On behalf of myself and all of us here at Backblaze, thank you for being a customer and trusting us with your data and the needs you have around it.   As always, we want to hear from you, particularly if you need help or if you have product feedback. We'd also appreciate your feedback on G2 for both B2 Cloud Storage and Computer Backup.   I wish you and your families a great 2025. Gleb Budman Co-Founder and CEO, Backblaze Backblaze, 201 Baldwin Avenue, San Mateo, California 94401 Unsubscribe Manage preferences