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.

Spanning Release Notes: Spanning Backup for Microsoft 365 Launches UK Data Center

Spanning Backup for Microsoft 365 has launched a UK data center to help customers and prospects in the EMEA region maintain compliance & data sovereignty.


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Spanning Release Notes: Spanning Backup for Microsoft 365 Extends Global Data Protection to Canada

Spanning Backup for Microsoft 365 has launched a data center in Canada to help Canadian organizations maintain compliance & data sovereignty.


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Spanning’s Matthew McDermott Awarded Microsoft MVP for 15th Year in a Row

Congratulations to Spanning’s Director of Product Management, Matthew McDermott, on being awarded the Most Valuable Professional award by Microsoft for the 15th year in a row!


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5 Gift Ideas for the Technologist in Your Life

Skip the guides for dog-lovers and coffee-drinkers. This Valentine’s Day we are celebrating the sometimes hard-to-shop-for technologist. Read this blog for a few gift ideas from the Spanning Backup team ranging from stickers to books and fun apps.


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Farewell 2018, Hello 2019!

Before jumping into 2019, let’s take a look back at all we accomplished together during the last year. In this end of year letter, GM Chad Savoy looks back at some of the highlights of 2018.


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Helpful: A Leading Core Value

At Spanning we are guided by our core values — HIFADO —Helpful, Innovative, Fun, Accountable, Driven, and Open. With “helpful” as our leading core value, we work hard to live up to it in and outside of the office. Here’s a little about how we support a corporate culture that embraces others first. Being There […]


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That’s a Wrap: Spanning’s Summer 2018

In Austin, where Spanning has its headquarters, schools are now open and public pools have closed. As the season changes (well, one can hope here in Texas), and we move into September, there’s a renewed focus across our teams on business goals and data protection. Before we say farewell completely to this summer of many firsts, we invite you to take a quick look back at Spanning’s summertime activities and achievements.


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Announcing Spanning’s New 2018 Logo

As we’ve evolved over the past seven plus years, so has our visual brand identity.  Our logo has served us well as we’ve grown from an Austin-based tech start-up to what is now a global company supporting three SaaS products. We now have more than 8,100 customers, 1.5 million global users, and data centers in […]


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Spanning 2017 – Year in Review Video

This has been a big year for Spanning. When I look back at 2017, I am proud of how we rose to the challenge of once again becoming a standalone company following our spin-out from Dell EMC in April. The overwhelming support we’ve received from customers, partners, and the industry has been more than rewarding. […]


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Visit Us @ ATX Startup Crawl

We are proud to join the biggest startup party of Austin Startup Week—The ATX Startup Crawl for Houston—on Thursday, Oct. 12, 5 pm to 10 pm. The ATX Startup Crawl is a celebration of innovation and technology. More than 60 local startups and 7000 people gather twice a year to travel through downtown Austin experiencing […]


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