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> Out of curiosity, is there any reason why you haven't tried to tackle the EMC demographic? We didn't want to be in the hardware market. We outsource all of o
by atYevP 10y ago
> Out of curiosity, is there any reason why you haven't tried to tackle the EMC demographic?
We didn't want to be in the hardware market. We outsource all of our "builds" to companies that are willing to bend the metal and assemble most of the pods for us. You can buy the pods directly from them as well (like from backuppods.com or 45drives.com). Backblaze was started by software people who were forced to look at hardware to solve a price-to-density problem.
Which is a really long way of saying - we don't want to sell hardware, if folks want to back up or store their data with us, that's awesome - but if they want hardware and support for that hardware - there's folks out there that are more in to that sort of thing :)