Barry Kaufman

Shooting for the Clouds: How One Photo Storage Service Moved Beyond Physical Devices

The sheer number of creative and unique ways our customers and partners utilize Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage never ceases to amaze us. Whether it’s pairing our storage with a streaming platform to deliver seamless video or protecting research data that…

Escaping the Taliban

With their country collapsing around them, two young boys began an amazing journey that would bring them to freedom, and to the sunshine and ice cream of Savannah, Georgia. It was the early evening of August 26, 2021, and chaos reigned at Hamid…

The Next Big Thing?

WHAT’S AHEAD FOR BEAUFORT COUNTY’S ECONOMIC GROWTHIt’s funny to think back just a few years, when economic uncertainty was all around us and it seemed like even the most learned experts were working with a hazy crystal ball. Fast forward through a…

Education Unplugged: Google Ends Unlimited Storage for Schools

For schools and universities, data storage is paramount. Staff, administrators, and educators, not to mention students, need a secure place to store files. Add to that the legacy accounts of alumni storing irreplaceable files from their education,…

How to Download and Back Up Your Twitter Account

A lot of people are talking about ensuring their social data on Twitter is protected for posterity at the moment. So, we thought we’d re-share our guide to backing up and archiving Twitter content for anyone who is interested. Save your treasured…

What’s the Diff: Backup vs Archive

By 2025, the world will generate 463 exabytes of data every day. That’s more or less as much data as one million storage pods. This alone should underscore why being savvy about your online data storage will only become more important in coming…

Home showcase: Inside and out

THIS PARK-SIDE PALMETTO BLUFF PALACE’S UNIQUE LOT CREATED A WEALTH OF ARCHITECTURAL POSSIBILITIES. When creating something truly custom, tradition must be given its due reverence, even as it is ignored completely. After all, traditions merely exist…

What’s the Diff: Thunderbolt and USB

This post has been updated since it was originally published in March of 2019. How many different adapters do you use to connect your computer to peripheral devices? There’s USB 3, USB-A, USB-C, HDMI… I could go on. Some of these ports and interfaces…

What’s the Diff: DAM vs. MAM

On the surface, outlining the difference between digital asset management (DAM) and media asset management (MAM) might seem like splitting hairs. After all, you’re working with digital media, so what’s the difference between focusing on the “digital”…

How to Back Up and Restore WhatsApp Messages and Files

June is Backup Awareness Month and we’re kicking it off with the next installment in our series of guides to help you protect social content across many different platforms. We’re working on developing this list—please comment below if you’d like to…

Excuse Me While I Kiss The Sky

At the top of the world, where the line between planet earth and outer space begins to blur, KĒBĒ Keith Edward Snyder did something no human being has done before. Call it an act of extreme sports insanity. Call it the pursuit of a high unlike any…

Test Drive the Porsche Life

Within the withered husk of every commuter wasting away behind the wheel of a grocery-grabber beats the heart of a driver. At the Porsche Experience Center in Atlanta, you can find the pulse of that heart, then send its BPM soaring as you tear across…

After decades, UGA bulldogs bring home the national championship

Forty years of pain, heartache and disappointment all evaporated over the course of four magical quarters this year. With South magazine’s cameras at the ready, the Georgia Bulldogs roared into the history books with their first National Championship…

How to Back Up Yahoo and AOL Data

In case you missed it, we recently showed you how to back up your old email accounts, focusing on Outlook emails and Gmail. But what of those of us who remember the Wild Wild West days of the internet? Some of us have decades worth of emails…

How to Download and Back Up YouTube Videos

We like to think of our YouTube videos as being eternal, that somehow once we upload this little clip of our life, it will remain there safe in its URL forever. The fact is, nothing lasts forever online except for those embarrassing pictures someone…

Operation Sting

“People don’t understand what a gigantic underpinning these bees are.” –Ted Dennard / Savannah Bee Co. At the very heart of everything we hold dear lies the humble hive dwellers of the apian world, the bees. Where they go, we go. The entire world is…

GoSouth: Outside is just the tip of the Iceberg

This April will mark the 110th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic — in the early hours of April 15, 1912 — the majestic luxury liner whose tragic end resulted in an even more tragic Celine Dion song. What better way to commemorate the event…

Strutting their STUTZ

CARL & CARROL JENSEN REV UP FOR THIS YEAR’S CONCOURS D’ELEGANCE To the moderate car enthusiast, the name Stutz may not resonate as well as Mercedes, Porsche or Ferrari. With the last model rolling off an Indiana assembly line more than 85 years ago,…

Small businesses make a huge impact

LOCALLY-OWNED SHOPS HELP ENRICH THE COMMUNITY Millions upon millions of small business owners each year invest in local youth sports leagues. They hire other local firms to help their business excel. They pump money into the local economy through the…

CITY GUIDE 2021: Bluffton Town Manager STEPHEN STEESE

Stephen Steese has served as manager of the Town of Bluffton since June. Steese, who previously served as Easley’s city manager, has more than 18 years of experience in local government. 1. What’s Easley like and how did it prepare you for…