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Following $2MM Series A Round from Foundry Group, Company Immediately Hires Top Talent to Fuel Growth Austin, TX, April 26, 2011 — Spanning Cloud Apps, the makers of Spanning Backup for Google Apps, today announced the appointment of Bill Dolan as vice president of sales. Following the company’s recent Series A financing, Dolan will bring his [...]

by Mike Pav, Vice President of Engineering By now it is old news that Amazon had some trouble in one of their data centers causing many companies with high-profile web sites to suffer some downtime. Here at Spanning, we are big fans of the service that Amazon offers, and if nothing else have more conviction [...]

You asked for it, so we’re adding it: Spanning Backup for Gmail. We’ve heard from a wide range of customers that they need to be able to back up their Google Apps email alongside the calendars, contacts, and docs that are already protected by Spanning Backup. Even companies who use Google’s own Postini Services tell [...]

We’ve just made it easier to customize your settings to back up only your own data. By default, Spanning Backup is set up to back up everything—all of the documents, calendars, and contacts you have access to, including those owned by other people and shared with you. But many of our customers use Spanning Backup [...]

Austin, TX – April 6, 2011 — Spanning Cloud Apps, the makers of Spanning Backup for Google Apps, today announced that the company has secured $2 million of funding from Foundry Group, a Boulder-based venture capital firm. Launched in September 2010 and spun out of Spanning Sync, Inc., Spanning Cloud Apps will apply the resources [...]

What We Value: At Spanning Cloud Apps, we are focused on delivering products that “just work.” We do this by maintaining an intense focus on our customers and at every decision point asking how a feature will be used. We believe that coupling fast delivery cycles with real world feedback is the most effective way [...]

As per our Master Subscription Agreement, if you delete Spanning Backup from your Google Apps domain, your backups will be queued for deletion. Or in the more formal language of Section 12.5 the agreement: Upon the effective date of termination, We shall have no obligation to maintain or provide any of Your Data and shall [...]

Updated 10-Apr-2012 It was fun while it lasted, but the “3 Seats Free” program has been discontinued. You can now start a free, fully-functional 14-day trial of Spanning Backup for up to 100 users in your domain. Just visit Spanning Backup on the Google Apps Marketplace and click “Add it now”.

As of this morning, Spanning Backup has backed up more than 1,000,000,000 calendar events, contacts, and docs for Google Apps users. That’s a billion fewer things our users have to worry about. But what about people who don’t yet back up their Google Apps data? The questions they most often ask are, “Do I really [...]

Today Google made it possible for all Google users to enable “2-step verification”, which makes it a lot harder for someone else to access your account. We’re proud to announce that Spanning Backup fully supports this important new technology today. Until now this level of security has only been available to users of Google Apps [...]