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 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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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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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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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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The ABCs of Google Workspace for Education Backup

If your school is using Google Workspace for Education, you may think that Google has your files backed up and available for you in any scenario. But consider the following issues posted to Google Workspace forums by educators and IT admins at schools.


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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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We’re in the Google Gooru Crew! Get a Google Workspace Tip from Spanning.

When you’ve got questions about “going Google”


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How Does Google Back Up Your Data?

Google guarantees data security, including encryption, authentication, reliable access, a high level of user control, and backup of data. But users should be aware that when Google uses the term “backed up,”


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New Account Provisioning API Enables Data Protection Automation

In almost every organization, change is constant. New people join the organization, some leave and others change roles. Each of these transitions in the life cycle of an employee requires a change of access to applications and data. Over time, organizations will look to automate these changes to reduce their costs and increase their accuracy of managing access. This is especially true for enterprises and industries like education where there is a high turnover of users each time a class graduates.


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