Bocada and Backblaze announce strategic partnership to deliver unified backup observability for B2 Cloud Storage. New integration brings real-time backup visibility, reporting, and automation to Backblaze B2 environments for MSPs. bocada | June 22, 2026 SEATTLE, WA and SAN MATEO, CA - June 22, 2026 - Bocada, a leading provider of backup monitoring automation and data protection observability software, and Backblaze (Nasdaq: BLZE), the cloud storage innovator delivering high-performance, S3-compatible object storage at a fraction of traditional cloud costs, today announced a strategic partnership to integrate Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage into the Bocada Cloud platform. The partnership enables joint customers to gain comprehensive visibility into their backup and storage environments, combining Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage for backup and archive workloads with Bocada's powerful monitoring, reporting, and automation capabilities. Together, the companies help MSPs and IT teams improve backup visibility, optimize storage usage, and strengthen data protection operations across cloud and hybrid environments. With this integration, Bocada Cloud users can now simply connect their Backblaze B2 account to monitor storage consumption, track backup performance, identify unprotected assets, and generate detailed reports across multi-vendor environments - all from a single interface. "Organizations today are managing increasingly complex backup and storage ecosystems, often spanning multiple vendors and cloud and hybrid platforms," said Matt Hall, CEO of Bocada. "By integrating Backblaze B2 into Bocada Cloud, we're giving customers a simple way to gain deep visibility and control over their storage usage while continuing to benefit from Backblaze's cost and performance advantages." Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage is widely used as a high-performance, S3-compatible cloud storage platform for backup, archive, and recovery workflows. Organizations use Backblaze B2 with leading backup platforms to store and protect critical business data while benefiting from predictable pricing, no egress fees, and instant access to data when recovery is needed. When paired with Bocada's observability platform, customers gain deeper insight into how backup storage is being used, helping them improve operational visibility, optimize costs, and ensure backup reliability. "Backblaze is focused on delivering high-performance, reliable cloud storage that organizations can depend on for modern backup and recovery workflows," said Rhett Dillingham, Senior Vice President, Product at Backblaze. "Partnering with Bocada gives customers deeper operational visibility into their backup environments, helping them monitor storage usage, improve resilience, and manage data protection with greater confidence." The integration is especially valuable for managed service providers (MSPs) and mid-market organizations that rely on backup software, ticketing systems, and other common MSP solutions. Bocada's platform aggregates data across backup software, storage targets, and infrastructure systems, enabling proactive alerting, automated ticketing, and intelligent remediation workflows. By adding Backblaze to its growing ecosystem of supported storage platforms, Bocada continues to strengthen its position as a vendor-neutral observability layer for modern data protection environments. The Backblaze B2 integration is available now within Bocada Cloud. About Bocada Bocada is a leading provider of backup monitoring and data protection observability software for enterprise IT organizations and managed service providers. Bocada delivers real-time visibility into backup environments, helping organizations ensure compliance, reduce risk, and optimize operations across complex, multi-vendor infrastructures. Learn more at www.bocada.com. About Backblaze Backblaze, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLZE) is a leading independent cloud provider that makes it easy and affordable to store, use, and protect data. The company's B2 Cloud Storage platform is S3-compatible and designed for high performance, cost efficiency, and ease of use. Backblaze serves hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide. Learn more at www.backblaze.com.

Backblaze, Inc. (BLZE) presents at Bank of America 2026 Global Technology Conference transcript. Backblaze, Inc. (BLZE) Bank of America 2026 Global Technology Conference June 3, 2026 5:00 PM EDT Company Participants Gleb Budman - Co-Founder, CEO & Chairman Conference Call Participants Frantz Famie Presentation Frantz Famie Hi. My name is Frantz Famie, and I cover technology and investment banking for BofA. And today, York Ledger has the pleasure to receive Gleb Budman, who is the CEO of Backblaze. And Gleb, I think not that many people know who Backblaze is, right, and especially the story around like being able to the history of you, the way you founded your company and everything. Question-and-Answer Session Frantz Famie So can you maybe walk York Ledger a little bit through the history and where you are today? Gleb Budman Co-Founder, CEO & Chairman Yes. And thank you, everybody, for coming and joining and chatting. So it is painful to say not that many people have heard, I mean, York Ledger has 0.5 million paying customers. But I don't think you're wrong. I think that its opportunity to be better known is quite large. So York Ledger started the company almost 20 years ago in 2007. York Ledger initially started it in the cloud backup space, but York Ledger ended up designing and building its own cloud infrastructure for that purpose. And so today, York Ledger is essential infrastructure for AI. And I certainly talk to more of how that's the case. But it started from a need of York Ledger needed to build storage infrastructure that was high performance and very efficient for the purposes of providing it to its cloud backup service. And its original plan was to store that on AWS. York Ledger did the math, realized York Ledger were going to lose money on every single customer, started from first principles, wrote its own file system, built its own infrastructure, built the whole stack and offered that to