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 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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Spanning Enters Next Phase of Growth With Acquisition by Insight Venture Partners

We’re excited to announce Spanning has entered the next phase in our evolution as a company. This week, we were acquired by Insight Venture Partners, a leading private equity firm with an emphasis on growth stage SaaS companies. This acquisition will allow us to realize our full potential as a SaaS data protection provider with […]


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Market Momentum Accelerates with Spanning Backup for Google Workspace

With Google Cloud Next ’17 taking place this week, we wanted to look back to see how our Spanning Backup for Google Workspace business has grown over the past year, particularly since 2016 was hugely successful for our organization. This momentum was driven by an increased percentage of large enterprise deals and distribution agreements with [...]

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Apps Admins Can’t Live Without

Salesforce is showing some love for admins by highlighting their achievements and showcasing the Salesforce AppExchange apps they love most. We’re happy to report that Spanning Backup for Salesforce is among the 20 “heroic” apps that admins say they rely on to drive results. Considering there are hundreds of apps on the AppExchange, we’re pretty [...]

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Spanning Joins Dell Technologies – Let the Transformation Begin

We’re excited about making tech history by participating in the world’s largest technology merger as Dell and EMC combine forces to become the premier end-to-end technology company. The momentous acquisition is effective today and that means that we are now Spanning, a part of Dell Technologies. For the team at Spanning, I have to quote […]


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We’re a 2016 SaaS Awards Finalist – Best Enterprise-Level SaaS Product

We’re thrilled to announce that Spanning Backup has been named a finalist for the 2016 SaaS Awards. A sister program to the Cloud Awards, the SaaS Awards celebrate international excellence and innovation in SaaS solutions across public clouds, as well as alongside private, single-tenant solutions, off-premises or on-premises. Our SaaS data protection offering, Spanning Backup […]


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Spanning by EMC Teams up with Schinnerer and Microsoft to Deliver Cyber Security Protection Solution

No organization – regardless of size – is immune to cyber security-related data loss. Even small to midsized businesses aren’t safe. That’s why we have joined forces with Victor O. Schinnerer & Company, a leading underwriting manager, andMicrosoft to provide a comprehensive cyber security protection solution for small to mid-sized businesses. Our solution includes the […]


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Survey Says The Cloud Is Changing the Game When It Comes to Data Protection

EMC has published the results from its annual global research survey, the EMC Global Data Protection Index 2016, asking IT decision-makers at 2,200 organizations to index data protection maturity, threats, and trends. Several trends were identified and it’s no surprise with the recent news coverage of the ransomware attacks that 29% of organizations surveyed reported […]


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Spanning by EMC Extends Cloud-to-Cloud Backup to Microsoft Office 365 OneDrive for Business

As enterprises continue to migrate their business applications and data to cloud services, their need to be able to quickly recover from a data loss disaster is more crucial than ever.  So today, we’re proud to announce that we’ve extended our enterprise-class SaaS data protection for Microsoft Office 365 to include backup and restore for [...]

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