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.

5 Key Differences in Email Backup and Retention between Google Workspace and Microsoft Office 365

As organizations make the move to the cloud, they inevitably find themselves comparing Google Workspace and Microsoft Office 365 in terms of price, functionality, security, and storage capacity. One important component here – and one that varies quite a bit between the two offerings – is the native backup, retention, and data protection policies included with the SaaS services.


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A New Way to Recover Deleted Google Calendar Events: What It Is, and What It Isn’t

Google recently announced a new way to recover deleted Calendar events. In this blog post, you’ll learn more about what this functionality can do, what it can’t do, and what you should do to protect your Google Calendar data (in addition to using Google’s new functionality.)


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Why Third-Party Backup for Google Workspace is Absolutely Critical

If you’re using Google Workspace for Work, you’re certainly in good company. With more than half of the Fortune 500 and over 5 million businesses using this cloud-based platform, it’s a popular choice for many. They offer a suite of functions for enterprises including professional email, calendar, and of course, the ability to work from anywhere, so it’s hardly surprising that enterprises value the solution for productivity and collaboration across the workforce. And along with those benefits, they also promise business-grade security and controls. So then why do you need third-party backup for your data?


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What is SaaS Metadata, and Why Do You Need to Protect It? Part I

If you’re a SaaS application administrator (for example, you manage Google for Work, or Salesforce, or Office 365) and don’t know much about the importance of metadata for your SaaS apps, you’re not alone.


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Planning a Google Workspace Migration? Here’s a Terrific Guide

If you’re looking to migrate your organization to Google Workspace for Work, the Cloud Alliance for Google Workspace has a new resource that offers terrific advice on how to get there. The Business Transformation Guide for Google Workspace takes you all the way from defining your goals and overcoming obstacles to a roadmap for long-term success with your Google Workspace migration initiative.


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New Feature for Google Workspace Backup: Now Even Easier to Back Up Shared Drive Files

We are continuing to add features to Spanning Backup for Google Workspace that allow organizations to more easily manage their backups and ensure that shared data remains protected. That’s why we’ve introduced domain-wide shared Drive backup settings.


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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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Free Google Workspace Audit Log Viewer Takes the Mystery out of Admin Duties

In Google Workspace environments with multiple admins or super admins, tracking down changes to the domain, who made them, and when can feel like a good, old-fashioned “Who dunnit?”


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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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Top 5 Reasons You Need Google Workspace Backup Software: Sync Error

In the age of the consumerization of IT, our personal and professional lives are increasingly merging, relying on multiple devices, accounts, and applications to keep us connected, informed, and productive. Each tool we use is extremely important not only to our personal communications and social lives, but also to our companies’ bottom lines.


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