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 Announces ‘Save 5+Make 5’ Affiliate Program for the Google Workspace Community

Spanning, the makers of Spanning Backup for Google Workspace, today announced the Save 5+Make 5 affiliate program, giving the Google Workspace community the ability to offer Spanning Backup to their network at a $5/user per year discount while earning a recurring $5/user per year referral fee at the same time.


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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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When Backup Becomes an Afterthought, You Kill Buzz Lightyear

Okay, so you won’t really kill Buzz, but Pixar almost did. Along with the rest of Toy Story 2 back in the late 90s.


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Spanning Stats for Google Drive is Live on the Chrome Web Store

We launched Spanning Stats just one week ago but its already been used to scan more than 50,000 Google Drives, and we’re just getting started.


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The 4 Best and 1 Worst Things About Google Drive

Google Drive is finally out and it follows 4 of the 5 suggestions I offered last week on How Google Drive Could Become a Huge Success. Here’s the rundown.


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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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How Google Drive Could Become a Huge Success, Redux

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Oppenheimer, the Fall of the Roman Empire, and Google Drive

At Spanning, we’ve been doing sync since 2006. (Damn, that’s a long time.) But we hadn’t been doing it long before we realized that sync makes backup even more important. Because with sync, when you make a change”


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Working Around Google’s Storage Quotas with Inlanta Mortgage and Spanning

We recently got the opportunity to talk with Chris Knowlton, VP of Technology & Marketing at Inlanta Mortgage, about his experience becoming a Spanning Backup customer.


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