Data Sales Co. announced its continued relationship with Backblaze, increasing its lease facility to $18 million to support Backblaze’s domestic and global IT equipment expansion.

With over 700 petabytes of data storage, Backblaze’s growing requirements for servers and other IT equipment is a perfect match to the Data Sales lease offering – which is designed for fast growing companies that provide services over the internet.

“We have partnered with Data Sales on our equipment leasing requirements for several years. They are a key financial partner for us. Our team values the relationship and knows we have support for our growth plans,” says John H. Tran, chief financial officer and chief operating officer, Backblaze.

“We are excited to provide this lease facility to Backblaze for their domestic and global IT infrastructure expansion. The cloud backup and storage services industry presents a tremendous opportunity as a whole and we are proud to support Backblaze, one of the growth players in the market,” said Eric Wern, international lease executive, Data Sales Co.

Backblaze is a pioneer in robust, scalable low cost cloud backup and storage services.

Founded in 1973, Data Sales Co is a full-service IT lessor with over $3B in lease originations spanning five decades.