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If you’re a Google Docs power user, today’s update to Spanning Backup will make backing up and restoring your docs even faster. Some people use Google Docs for the occasional spreadsheet or as a convenient way to share notes in a small group. But other people have made Google Docs a central part of their [...]

by Charlie Wood, founder, Spanning Cloud Apps Google’s ChromeOS is a very big deal. Well, not yet, but it will be. However, some very clever people disagree so I thought it might be useful to go through my rationale for believing what I do. Let me first make a disclaimer: I’m a big fan of [...]

Google Chrome users can now install Spanning Backup from the Chrome Web Store, which makes discovering and learning about web apps easier by listing them in an app store format and allowing users to rate and review apps. Here’s the recent announcement of the Chrome Web Store (starts at 21:42):

Google just launched a feature which lets users restore their Gmail contacts to a previous state from any time in the past 30 days. This is a great addition to Gmail, and will save users lots of heartache. It’s essentially a big “undo” button for Contacts. But there’s a catch: when it restores old contacts, [...]

Brett Carver volunteers on the Gmail Help forum as a Top Contributor with over 40,000 posts helping users with account recovery and various other topics. He is a software engineer with over 25 years of R&D and new product development experience. Cloud services are safe, they use secure servers and backups, right? Google is a [...]

According to googleappsreview.com, Spanning Backup is now the highest-rated paid app on the Google Apps Marketplace. We couldn’t be more thrilled by the recognition and reviews we’ve gotten from our customers. If you’d like to see what all the fuss is about, we invite you to add it now to your Google Apps account and [...]

These are some of the most commonly used words in posts to the Google help forums from users who have lost their data: Unfortunately, the answer to almost every one of these posts is, “Unless you’ve been backing it up, once your data’s gone, it’s gone.” The good news is that backing it up is [...]

You’ve made the decision to back up your Google Apps data and not become one of these people. That’s good. But when you need those backups, are you going to be able to restore them? It may sound like a silly question, but it’s not. In fact, it’s a critical one. A backup system that [...]

Spanning Backup has become one of the highest-rated admin tools on the Google Apps Marketplace, earning a perfect 5-star rating from Google Apps administrators. Here’s what some reviewers had to say: “For all the time and energy you spend maintaining your contacts and calendar, and creating documents and spreadsheets, why risk losing it when you [...]

Google recently announced the availability of two-factor authentication for Google Apps Premier, Education, and Government Editions, and we’re proud to announce that Spanning Backup fully supports this important new technology. Here’s how it works: Two-step verification is easy to set up, manage and use. When enabled by an administrator, it requires two means of identification [...]