Backblaze needs petabytes of storage, but Amazon S3, EMC, NetApp, etc. were outrageously expensive - so we built our own, in a lean-startup way. We show how this went from a wood prototype to 15 petabytes of cloud storage. We open-sourced the design and 500,000 read the blog post and hundreds of companies are now using these storage pods. The original blog post: http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/

1. Petabytes on a Budget How to Beat the Big Guys (and Build Cheap Cloud Storage) Gleb BudmanCo-Founder & CEOBackblaze, Inc.@budmang

2. We needed storage

3. Lots of storage

4. Amazon S3? $5/Month = 30 GB

5. Buy a storage system? Subtotal: $1,000,000.99

6. Build it? Where to start?

7. Essential Non-Essential $$ Step 1 Toss the unnecessary 99.99% uptime

8. Step 2 Ask the experts

9. Step 3 Prototype fast – plywood works

13. Step 4 Use consumer parts – stay away from IT tax

14. VS Server Power Supply Desktop Power Supply

15. Step 5 Test, fix, repeat

16. 200 Pods / 15 Petabytes

18. Our design is open for you 67 terabytes cost $7,867 to build Search “petabytes on a budget”

19. Don’t Panic. 1. Toss the unnecessary 2. Ask for help 3. Prototype fast 4. Avoid IT tax 5. Test, fix, repeat

20. Petabytes on a Budget How to Beat the Big Guys (and Build Cheap Cloud Storage) Gleb.Budman@Backblaze.com @budmang @backblaze