Spanning Blog

Welcome to our blog featuring thought leadership and best practices on SaaS backup and recovery, data protection and security, and regular product updates for Spanning Backup for Office 365, Google Workspace, and Salesforce.

Exchange Online Protection (EOP): What It Does, How It Works, Key Features and Limitations

Exchange Online Protection (EOP) helps protect against spam, malware and other email-based threats. Learn more about its features and limitations.


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Spanning Blog: The Best of 2021

The Spanning blog brings you latest news, trends and updates from the SaaS industry. Here’s a quick rundown of the most popular blogs from 2021.


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Salesforce Data Export: A Reliable Backup & Recovery Tool?

Salesforce Data Export allows you to export data from your Salesforce org for backup purposes. But is it a reliable backup and recovery tool?


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Onboarding and Offboarding: The Role of IT Pros

Learn how IT pros can (and should) work with the HR team to build an employee onboarding and offboarding program that is consistent and robust.


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Spanning Blog: The Best of 2020

The Spanning blog provides important insights into the world of enterprise data protection. Here’s a recap of the most popular blogs from 2020.


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Spanning’s Best of 2019

As 2019 draws to an end, we take a look back on the blogs and resources most enjoyed by you. The resulting list provides an insightful overview of the challenges associated with enterprise data protection.


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Salesforce Drives Towards Diversity And Equality

The Salesforce developers and admins at Forcelandia’s “Women in Tech Breakfast” and at Midwest Dreamin’ are exemplars of a powerful paradigm shift in tech - an increase in inclusion and diversity that benefits technologists and their organizations. Further, the significant number of men attending the Forcelandia “Women In Tech Breakfast” (see the image below) shows [...]

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New Feature for Spanning Backup for Salesforce: Custom Scheduled Backup Time

Salesforce admins and developers who want to be sure their data and customizations are protected now have a new option: Custom Scheduled Backup Time for Spanning Backup for Salesforce. This is yet another new feature Spanning is delivering to meet the industry’s enterprise-class Salesforce backup and restore needs. We’ve heard from many of you that [...]

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How Can You Avoid Data Loss in Office 365?

Avoid Data Loss in Office 365 by Learning These Surprising Facts It's easy to see why so many business are moving to the cloud – it's secure, convenient and easy to set up. Moreover, it enables a workforce to move at lightspeed, collaborating across offices - even oceans - while reducing operational costs. So, it's [...]

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Back Up and Restore Google Sites with Structure Intact

I was happy to see our friends at Backupify bring up the importance of structure in your Google Workspace data in their recent blog post. But I was surprised too, since their product’s inability to restore that very structure is one of its greatest weaknesses.


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