Chris Welch is a former senior reviewer who worked at The Verge from 2011 until May 2025. His coverage areas included audio (Sonos, Apple, Bose, Sony, etc.), home theater, smartphones, photography, ...

Backblaze IPO'd at $16 per share after taking in little funding and revenue for a cloud company. The company sells itself as an affordable cloud storage solution, competing with the Big Three.

Backblaze, Inc. (Nasdaq:BLZE), the high-performance cloud storage platform for the AI era, today announced the appointment of ...

Backblaze’s quarterly updates on annualized failure rates (AFRs) for its arsenal of hard disk drives (HDDs) have provided unique insight into long-term storage use for over 10 years. Today, the backup ...

Sure, Facebook is apparently rebranding as a metaverse company — because that will fix its trust deficit — but this morning we’re jumping right back into the IPO game instead of making rude jokes at ...

Backblaze’s updated narrative reflects a slightly lower fair value of $10.06 per share, driven by a small uptick in the discount rate to 9.73% and a modest trim to long term revenue growth ...

In an email to customers, online backup service Backblaze tersely announced that “the price of our USB Hard Drive Restores and USB Snapshots will be changing to $279” as of 15 August 2024. This email ...

You know those backup drives will fail someday — but online backup services won't. Every minute of every day, your work can be preserved offsite — and AppleInsider will show you how to start. You can ...

The unlimited-data service now charges $6 per month or $60 per year, but existing customers can sign up for another year at the old $50 annual rate. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

Backblaze has announced a new 60-drive version of its Storage Pod, which reduces the cost of storage by 22 percent compared with the previous 45-drive version. The hardware design is open source, and ...

Backblaze remains a "Buy," benefiting from strong demand for its data storage solutions amid data center growth and AI-driven tailwinds. BLZE's B2 Cloud Storage segment is accelerating, with 29% ...

The 2011 Thai floods devastated global hard drive production. An estimated 25-50 percent of global HDD production was lost while workers shoveled mud out of their clean rooms and factories. Meanwhile ...