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.

Q4 2023 Product Innovation Update: What’s New in Spanning

The Spanning Q4 2023 Product Innovation Update webinar highlighted latest innovations and product updates to fortify SaaS data protection. Learn more.


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Spanning Is Growing, and So Is Our Global Data Center Footprint

Spanning’s global data centers allow businesses to store data backups in their preferred regions for compliance and data sovereignty.


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New Spanning Backup for Google Workspace Features: Drive Restore Folders and Admin Tools

By listening to and learning from our customers, we continue to evolve Spanning Backup for Google Workspace, delivering a better way to easily back up and restore data. In this release, we give admins more control over what their end users can access, and make it easier for users to view and restore their Google Drive data.


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Spanning Wins SaaS Provider of the Year by Eliminating Risk of Data Loss in Cloud Apps!

Spanning is honored to be named the SaaS Provider of the Year by the 2014 Stratus Awards, presented by the Business Intelligence Group! The awards honor innovation in the cloud, and Spanning was recognized for our success in eliminating the risk, cost and consequences of cloud data loss for organizations with Spanning Backup for Google Workspace and Spanning Backup for Salesforce.


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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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We’re in the Google Gooru Crew! Get a Google Workspace Tip from Spanning.

When you’ve got questions about “going Google”


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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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Spanning Completes SSAE 16 Audit, Issued Attestation of Compliance

Spanning, the makers of Spanning Backup for Google Workspace, today announced that the company has successfully completed the Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAE) No. 16, Type 1 audit process, making it the only Google Workspace cloud-to-cloud backup provider to do so.


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What’s in Your Google Drive? Find Out with Spanning Stats for Google Drive

Two days ago Google launched Google Drive. Yesterday we saw the volume of files uploaded to Google Drive (n


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