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 Startups Can Use 3rd-Party Audits to Provide Business Class Cloud Services

Here at Spanning, we recently completed our SSAE 16 Type 1 audit. This is a compliance report issued by an independent auditing firm which attests that a company has laid out a set of management and operational controls and is actually following them.


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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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Spanning’s Latest Free Tool: Undelete for Google Calendar

Hopelessness. Anger. Frustration. Dismay. If you’ve ever accidentally deleted an event”


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Spanning Loves Resellers

I am very happy to report that today, we at Spanning are closing out the month with some really exciting reseller activity. The Google Workspace reseller community is realizing the growing need for backup in their customers’ Google Workspace domains, and they are putting their trust in us to fill that need.


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Spanning Backup Increases Storage to 25GB for All Paid Users

When you’re backing up important data, the last thing you want to worry about is running out of space for your backups. So we’ve raised every paid Spanning Backup user’s storage quota from 2GB to 25GB”


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Spanning Cloud Apps Snags VP of Sales Bill Dolan from Salesforce.com

Spanning Cloud Apps, the makers of Spanning Backup for Google Workspace, today announced the appointment of Bill Dolan as vice president of sales. Following the company’s recent Series A financing, Dolan will bring his considerable sales experience to Spanning and play an instrumental role in the continued growth of the company.


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New Admin Capability Allows Administrators to Manage Backups for Users

Spanning Backup is designed to be easy for anyone to use, but often if someone needs to restore lost data, she’ll go to her Google Workspace admin for help. The admin needs to be able to use Spanning Backup on behalf of the user without compromising the user’s account security.


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Spanning Cloud Apps Raises $2 Million Series A Round of Venture Funding From Foundry Group

Spanning Cloud Apps, the makers of Spanning Backup for Google Workspace, today announced that the company has secured $2 million of funding from Foundry Group, a Boulder-based venture capital firm.


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Spanning Backup Supports Google’s New Two-Factor Authentication

Google recently announced the availability of two-factor authentication for Google Workspace Premier, Education, and Government Editions, and we’re proud to announce that Spanning Backup fully supports this important new technology. Here’s how it works


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