Backblaze, Inc.

We are a high-performance cloud storage platform for data-intensive use cases in the artificial intelligence ( AI ) era and across a broad range of modern cloud workloads, designed to help customers address complex storage needs by reducing the barriers of lock-in, complexity, and cost. Our mission is to make customers succeed by solving their toughest data storage challenges. We aim to achieve this mission through our purpose-built, web-scale software infrastructure, which is essential to the global data center and compute infrastructure buildout. We provide cloud services through a purpose-built, web-scale software infrastructure built on commodity hardware. We believe that by offering a cloud storage solution optimized for price-to-performance at scale, engineered for efficiency, and priced predictably, we substantially reduce the cost, complexity and frustration of storing, using, and protecting data, and we empower customers to focus on their core business operations. Customers use us to support their AI workflows, help ensure the cyber-resilience of their organizations, streamline their media workflows, and enable a variety of other data-focused application and information technology ( IT ) needs. Through our blog and culture of transparency, we have built a community of millions of readers and brand advocates.