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.

Do I Need To Back Up Google Docs? Absolutely.

While Google for Work (and Google Docs) seems like an ideal solution for the modern workplace “


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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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Alarming Findings In New Report: 58 percent Have Experienced SaaS Data Loss

Though experts agree that relying on SaaS vendors to back up and restore your data is insufficient, that’s exactly what much of the business world is doing, according to a new report from IDG Research.


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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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Compliance in the Cloud: Consequences and Benefits

Depending on how you look at it, compliance is a tough challenge that will wreak havoc on your business if you don’t stay on top of it “


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Effective Engineering in the Cloud: Using AWS for Product Growth

In a series of articles to come over the course of this month, I’ll detail much of how we use AWS and how well it has helped us evolve and grow our business with a focus on being responsive to our business needs, rather than trying to spend the least amount on our product hosting. This material comes from an Austin Web Architecture talk I recently gave with a subtitle of “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AWS.”


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Evaluating Enterprise Backup Solutions: It’s All About Recovery

There’s plenty to consider when choosing an enterprise backup solution “


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5 Ways Google Workspace Backup Can Help the Modern Classroom

The modern classroom is quite a bit different than the classroom of ten or even five years ago. Students are signing up for their classes online. Educators are more readily available to their students at all times of the day through email, social media and video chat programs such as Google Hangouts. More of the class work is taking place online and being turned in electronically thanks to platforms like Google Workspace for Education. All of this is becoming the norm, the new way we do things in education.


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Education Backup Is Important for Students Too

In a previous post, we discussed why a student might need their data backed up now that more assignments are being completed and submitted via the cloud. If a student works hard on an assignment only to have it lost due to a technical glitch, do they deserve the bad grade that would normally result from not turning something in? Fortunately, backup can render this a moot point.


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4 Common Backup Errors: Spanning Backup Can Help!

A recent article in Tech Republic outlines several common backup errors that people make, and although the article is targeted at Mac users, these errors apply to anyone using a device that contains or is used to access important data. Let’s take a look at these errors and see how Spanning can help with them:


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