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.

How to Back Up and Restore Your Salesforce Dashboards, Reports, and Data

Have you ever tried to restore changed Salesforce data back to its original state, or to recover lost Salesforce data? It’s not as simple as you might think. The good news is that Salesforce has recently updated their knowledge base with new information on two use cases, as well as covering on how to handle general backup and restore scenarios.


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Alarming Findings In New Report: 58 percent Have Experienced SaaS Data Loss

Though experts agree that relying on SaaS vendors to back up and restore your data is insufficient, that’s exactly what much of the business world is doing, according to a new report from IDG Research.


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Compliance in the Cloud: Consequences and Benefits

Depending on how you look at it, compliance is a tough challenge that will wreak havoc on your business if you don’t stay on top of it “


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New Features Explained: Spanning Backup for Google Workspace Now Includes Actionable Status Reporting

We recently reported on our unwavering commitment to trust and transparency at Spanning, introducing new features in our status reporting that demonstrate these principles and bring additional value to our customers. Here, we’ll explain our status redesign, why it’s important for you, and how it works.


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Top 5 Reasons You Need Google Workspace Backup Software: Sync Error

In the age of the consumerization of IT, our personal and professional lives are increasingly merging, relying on multiple devices, accounts, and applications to keep us connected, informed, and productive. Each tool we use is extremely important not only to our personal communications and social lives, but also to our companies’ bottom lines.


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The ABCs of Google Workspace for Education Backup

If your school is using Google Workspace for Education, you may think that Google has your files backed up and available for you in any scenario. But consider the following issues posted to Google Workspace forums by educators and IT admins at schools.


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How Does Google Back Up Your Data?

Google guarantees data security, including encryption, authentication, reliable access, a high level of user control, and backup of data. But users should be aware that when Google uses the term “backed up,”


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New Account Provisioning API Enables Data Protection Automation

In almost every organization, change is constant. New people join the organization, some leave and others change roles. Each of these transitions in the life cycle of an employee requires a change of access to applications and data. Over time, organizations will look to automate these changes to reduce their costs and increase their accuracy of managing access. This is especially true for enterprises and industries like education where there is a high turnover of users each time a class graduates.


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Evaluating Enterprise Backup Solutions: It’s All About Recovery

There’s plenty to consider when choosing an enterprise backup solution “


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5 Ways Google Workspace Backup Can Help the Modern Classroom

The modern classroom is quite a bit different than the classroom of ten or even five years ago. Students are signing up for their classes online. Educators are more readily available to their students at all times of the day through email, social media and video chat programs such as Google Hangouts. More of the class work is taking place online and being turned in electronically thanks to platforms like Google Workspace for Education. All of this is becoming the norm, the new way we do things in education.


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