Leading storage cloud company
Backblaze, and
Jamf announced a joint solution
partnership to make Backblaze backup and data protection services
available with ease in the Jamf admin ecosystem.
Paired
with the announcement from Backblaze of updates to Mass Deployment
tools to streamline commands for installs and updates of its backup app,
these improvements offer a step change in ease for IT Administrators
tasked with safeguarding computers, servers, NAS, or Veeam data.
The Jamf Partnership
Jamf
is the standard in Apple enterprise management, so our partnership
means that the thousands of admins in the Jamf ecosystem can more easily
use Backblaze in their backup and data protection strategies for
businesses.
"Providing
the tools to connect, manage, and protect Apple products, while
streamlining the user experience is core to Jamf's mission-adding
Backblaze and their latest Mac deployment options to the Jamf
Marketplace Mac admins we serve is hugely helpful. We're very excited to
be deepening our collaboration with Backblaze." - Sam Weiss-Manager, Solution Partner Program, Jamf
The Mass Deployment Upgrade
For
any team administering backups for a large fleet of machines, the
improvements to our mass deployment suite streamline commands for new
user installs and add support for installs on existing users'
workstations when they're replaced due to refresh policy or equipment
loss. Backblaze will introduce an updated Mac client for mass installs
within weeks, after having just recently delivered an updated Windows
Mass Silent Installer (MSI) for workforce PCs.
Netgovern,
an information governance company, adopted Backblaze Groups to manage
their team's backups. Roland Gaspar, IT Director, described the ease of
use he experienced when administering backups for all employees:
"In
terms of ease of deployment and the simplicity of the whole
experience-from downloading the software, to enabling the service, to
requesting the restore-all of that just works with Backblaze."
As
companies' refresh policies increasingly require workstation
replacements every 4-5 years, and technology companies increasingly do
so more like every 3 years, these latest mass install improvements
translate to significant time savings, fast, for IT admins.