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We're thrilled about this. In short, we've directly connected our storage and their compute to ensure fast connections, and made the data transfers free. We've
by budmang 9y ago
We're thrilled about this. In short, we've directly connected our storage and their compute to ensure fast connections, and made the data transfers free. We've heard some ways people want to use this (disaster recovery, transcoding, rendering) - but would love to hear ways that you might. Thank you!
Gleb from Backblaze
- toomuchtodo 9y agoHey Gleb! This is awesome! Are there plans to accelerate this as an offering for other providers? I think there's huge benefit in partnering with other providers where you're enabling an agnostic storage layer (any provider that needs a durable object storage system without the complexity of operationalizing one themselves). Congrats, huge Backblaze fan!
- budmang 9y agoThanks for the kudos. We're open to supporting other providers as well, including other types of services beyond compute (e.g. databases and specific verticals.) Do you have some specific providers you were interested in having connected?
- toomuchtodo 9y ago> Do you have some specific providers you were interested in having connected? Not off hand, but lots of colleagues in hosting, exchange fabrics, SaaS products, etc and I want to be able to recommend a partnership to them whenever a good fit appears.
- budmang 9y agoExcellent. We just created this Google Form to add/recommend partners: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdObw8HKH4uDexOg-flMbnOKTb47I5aiXEztt1dDSP3t3_r-A/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdObw8HKH4uDexOg-fl...
- prolepunk 9y agoI've been using b2 and linode and I would benefit from having those two services connected :)
- budmang 9y agoGreat - we'll try to connect with them.
- lukeqsee 9y agoI can second this. We run significant bandwidth from you guys to Linode, and this would help immensely in a few of our applications. We also use Digital Ocean, so they'd be our second choice; however, I doubt they'll be willing to integrate with a direct competitor to their Spaces product.
- budmang 9y agoI guess we can explore with DO, but certainly will with Linode.
- codingminds 9y agoWhen your European region exists: I'd love to see Hetzner(.com) connected.
- budmang 9y agoLooks like they're in Germany/Finland. We'll try.
- dx034 9y agoJust to second that. Hetzner has a great product in Europe for compute but they lack simple storage options. Connecting both would be great.
- chx 9y agoBe still my beating heart. Seriously? I would drop my Hetzner storage boxes in a heartbeat if I could connect to you instead on a fast link. I have, through the years, have used their auctions to snatch quite a few SSD only boxes and so I need external mass storage their network storage offer is ... ahem ... not the fastest! I would welcome something better :)
- lars_francke 9y agoI'll second what the others have said. Especially their new Hetzner Cloud would be a perfect fit. It's one of the cheapest (if not the cheapest) cloud option I could find. Combining that with your B2 storage would be a perfect match. And the best thing: They don't only focus on price but the quality is great as well. And for us being a german/european provider is a bonus (GDPR).
- timc3 9y agoYeah Hetzner would be awesome. We already run some stuff over there so I could foresee spinning up some transcoders if you have connectivity there.
- deadlyllama 9y agoVultr would be great!
- jlgaddis 9y agoDoesn't Backblaze just have a single datacenter? If so, I think they're pretty limited in who they can partner up with like this. That is, they could only partner with companies who are in the same datacenter as them (or very close, network wise, due to latency) that they can connect directly to.
- toomuchtodo 9y agoBackblaze has two facilities, one in California and one in Arizona. They're limited to anyone who can reach their network edge through a network port in their datacenters, but theoretically, you could ride fiber to their network ports from other facilities. I would expect that as this grows (and it will, cheap, reliable storage and all), their network footprint would extend into more facilities (scale is required for this to be cost effective though). Latency is not an issue until you're pushing GB/sec and crossing an ocean, and even that is feasible (lots of resources at https://es.net/ https://es.net/ for that use case).
- alexchamberlain 9y agoAre there any plans to expand this to a European location?
- jlgaddis 9y agoThe CEO mentioned in an another comment that a .eu location by the end of 2018 is a goal.
- gandreani 9y agoThis is awesome. I personally only use B2 for personal backups but I know my company is looking for storage of 4k media footage. This makes it more compelling for them :) Also this opens up the possibility for someone to make a SaaS on video storage and transcoding for great value
- budmang 9y agoWould love to help your company with their storage needs. Feel free to email me: gleb.budman at backblaze BTW, this person is figuring out how to do transcoding of files their files in B2 as well: https://twitter.com/orlandoferrer/status/981205299532124163 https://twitter.com/orlandoferrer/status/981205299532124163
- rayvd 9y agoIBM's GPFS+LTFS (tape-based) is also a very low cost way to go on this and a commonly used solution in M&E as well as Geospatial Imagery space (I work in the latter). Assuming you have the facility and staff to run it, of course. Ray