Spanning Blog
Jun 26
2017
So You’re Adopting Google Team Drives: 4 Fast Backup and Data Protection Facts
Google’s recent release of Team Drives for G Suite Drive has sysadmins and cloud IT teams talking up a storm across social media. Here’s just a sample. In this blog post, we’ll go beyond those conversations to answer some of the questions we’ve heard directly from Spanning customers and other Google sysadmins, such as: What […]
May 04
2017
What Yesterday’s Gmail Attack Taught Us
Data Protection is a shared responsibility. The Internet was all abuzz yesterday when a sophisticated Gmail phishing attack hit. The rogue email, often appearing to be sent from one of your contacts, masqueraded as a Google Docs sharing request, but in actuality was a link that requests the user to grant access to an application […]
Mar 09
2017
Market Momentum Accelerates with Spanning Backup for G Suite
With Google Cloud Next ’17 taking place this week, we wanted to look back to see how our Spanning Backup for G Suite 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 […]
Feb 23
2017
What State and Local Governments Need to Know About Risks in G Suite and Office 365
Software as a Service (SaaS) collaborative platform adoption is increasing among state and local government for many good reasons–but along with increased adoption comes added risk. In this blog, you’ll learn more about why SaaS collaboration platforms are becoming more widely used by state and local governments; the new division of responsibility for those adopting […]
Jan 23
2017
How G Suite admins can prepare for the next Google Drive service disruption
Google reported a four-hour long disruption of service for Google Drive customers on Tuesday, January 17th, 2017. If you are an admin for any of the impacted Drive customers, you may have heard from your users that they could log in, but could not access their data. Hopefully, none of your executives needed to access […]
Jan 09
2017
What G Suite and Office 365 Admins Need to Know Now About Ransomware Attacks
Ransomware has proven to be a growth industry in 2016, in part due to increases in “Ransomware as a Service” and the risks ransomware poses to SaaS applications like G Suite (formerly Google Apps) and Office 365. In this post, you’ll learn: What’s changed over the past year What that might mean for 2017 The […]
Nov 21
2016
Spanning Backup for G Suite Gives Global Creative Agency Confidence to Move All Data to G Suite
Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH) was in the process of moving data and applications incrementally to G Suite when the global creative agency discovered Spanning Backup for G Suite. The backup and restore solution’s performance so impressed the firm’s Global Google Technical Lead, he decided to accelerate the timeline for fully transitioning agency data to G […]
Nov 14
2016
Catholic Education Diocese: Spanning Backup for G Suite Makes the Grade
With thousands of students, teachers, and staff members counting on G Suite for education technology, the Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta in New South Wales Australia needs the most reliable backup available to protect its content in the cloud. So when the diocese’s technology services provider couldn’t offer a cloud backup solution, the diocese turned […]
Aug 15
2016
Google Apps for Work in the Enterprise: “Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”
Is Google Apps still relevant for the enterprise? And if it is, how should Google for Work enterprises plan to recover from ransomware attacks? In this blog, you’ll learn why news of Google Apps demise in the enterprise is not really accurate, and you’ll learn how to minimize the risk and recover quickly from ransomware. […]
Aug 11
2016
Google Apps and Spanning Backup: Talkin’ About an Evolution
Innovations are innovative as long as they meet a need in fresh new ways–and four years ago, Spanning’s innovative Free Tools were embraced by millions of customers who needed to fill some gaps in Google Apps. Over time, Google’s products have evolved to fill the gaps addressed by Spanning’s Free Tools, and as a result, […]
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