Backblaze in Compute Partnerships

Backblaze, Inc. announces its Compute program via partnerships with Packet Host, Inc. and ServerCentral.

Backblaze B2 Cloud storage has directly connected to the compute providers – offering customers low latency and free data transfers.

Traditionally, cloud vendors charge fees for customers to move data outside the ‘walled garden’ of that particular vendor. These fees reach upwards of $0.10 per gigabyte. This tax on customers accessing their own data restricts users from taking advantage of less expensive or better performing options. With free transfers between B2 and Packet or ServerCentral, customers now have a predictable, scalable solution for compute and storage while avoiding vendor lock in.

“Many cloud users realize too late that traditional vendor pricing schemes are meant to lock in customer data. In our industry, it’s known as data gravity and Dropbox just saved $74 million by avoiding it with their move off of AWS,” said Jacob Smith, co-founder, Packet. “The question we had was ‘how can we democratize that Dropbox effect?‘ The answer was clear – directly connecting with Backblaze’s B2 Cloud Storage offering.”

Chris Rechsteiner, VP marketing, ServerCentral, shares the sentiment: “What’s happening here is the power of independent cloud providers offering better solutions to customer problems. Customers of ServerCentral or Packet, using B2 for storage, will find no pricing tiers or hidden taxes. What they will find is upwards of a 50% discount from their EC2 bill while maintaining industry leading performance standards. They will find they have choice on how to solve whatever IT challenge is facing their organization.”

“With over a decade of building the lowest-cost cloud storage, we’re proud to be able to profitably offer customers storage at ¼ of the price of S3,” noted Gleb Budman, CEO, Backblaze.

He continued: “Our partnerships with Packet and ServerCentral now enable us to jointly support a variety of new uses and customers. Both providers offer compute offerings. And, by charging $0.00 for transfers between Backblaze and our Compute Partners, customers choose what’s best for their particular workload.”

“The combination of performance and price offered by this partnership enables me to create an entirely new business line. Before this offering, the economics of the cloud would have made our business simply unviable,” noted Gabriel Menegatti, co-founder, SlicingDice, Inc., a serverless data warehousing service. “Knowing that transfers between compute and B2 are free means I don’t have to worry about my business being successful. And, with download pricing from B2 at just $0.01/GB, I know I’m avoiding a 400% tax from AWS on data I retrieve.”

About Packet
It is in bare metal cloud for developers. Its proprietary technology automates physical servers and networks without the use of virtualization or multi-tenancy – powering over 60k deployments each month in its 20 global datacenters. Founded in 2014 and based in New York City, NY, it has become the provider for leading enterprises, SaaS companies, and software innovators. In addition to its public cloud, Packet’s ‘Private Deployment’ model enables companies to automate their own infrastructure in facilities all over the world. Packet is a member of the Open19 Foundation, as well as the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), where it donates and manages the CNCF Community Infrastructure Lab. Additionally, the company supports many open source projects, including Memcached.org , NixOS, Docker, and Kernel.org.

About ServerCentral
It is an IT infrastructure solutions provider since 2000 for technology, finance, healthcare, and e-commerce firms having chosen ServerCentral to design and manage their mission-critical IT infrastructure in data centers across North America, Europe, and Asia. Whether it’s colocation, managed services, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), or cloud, ServerCentral designs a solution for each client.