Case Study: Cal Poly Humboldt eliminates surprise cloud storage bills with Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

Cal Poly Humboldt avoids surprise bills and stores 300TB+ with Backblaze

Cal Poly Humboldt, a public California university, faced challenges with unpredictable and confusing billing from their previous cloud storage provider, Wasabi, which resulted in surprise overage charges. This issue, coupled with Google ending its free storage tier for education, created significant budget pressure and operational complexity for their IT department as they managed backups for over 300 servers.

The university migrated its data to Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage. The solution provided predictable, straightforward pricing with no surprise fees and seamless integration with their existing Veeam backup software. As a result, Cal Poly Humboldt eliminated unexpected bills, streamlined its procurement process, and gained the ability to reliably scale its storage to over a petabyte to safeguard critical research data without cost concerns.

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