A peek behind the cloud: Backblaze CEO discusses Cloud Storage at dotScale

WhatWhen

Who

dotScaleApril 2016Gleb Budman, CEO@GlebBudman

http://www.thedotpost.com/2016/05/gleb-budman-a-peek-behind-the-cloud

Backup Everything Unlimited Just $5/Month

Amazon S3?$5/Month = 30 GB

$100 $1000

Build it?Where to start?

1. Toss the unnecessary

Essential Non-Essential

99.99%uptime

$$

2. Use commodity parts – stay away from IT tax

Server Power Supply Desktop Power SupplyVS

3. Create prototypes fast – plywood works

4. Use Agile for HardwareStorage Pod Scrum

Sprint 1

Sprint 2

Sprint “N”

Sprint

“Last”

Testing Testing Testing Testing

Production

The “old” Product Backlog becomes the new one when units go into production

Sprint 1

Testing

Never mind

Product Backlog

Product Backlog

Backblaze Storage Pod

Cost of a Petabyte (pod v1.0)

Storage Pod v6.0

Vault

200PETABYTES

Don’t Panic.

1. Toss the unnecessary2. Avoid IT tax3. Create prototypes fast4. Use Agile for hardware

Backblaze.com/Storage-Pod@GlebBudman

http://www.thedotpost.com/2016/05/gleb-budman-a-peek-behind-the-cloud