Spanning: Managing and Protecting Business-Critical Information in the Cloud
Millions of companies have moved from on-premise applications to those that live in the cloud. Thousands more join them every day. The benefits are clear: pay-as-you-go pricing, dynamic scalability, use-anywhere access, and much more.
But along with these new capabilities come new challenges. The old rules—and the old tools—no longer apply. Companies need new systems to help manage and protect their business-critical information in the cloud.
Spanning was founded to do exactly that.
In 2006 Charlie Wood and Larry Hendricks created Spanning Sync, a cloud-based service that syncs data between Google Apps and Mac OS X applications. It earned an intensely loyal customer base of over 50,000 paid subscribers (and counting) and gave its developers critical real-world insight into how people and businesses use Google Apps.
In 2010, Charlie founded a new company called Spanning Cloud Apps (“Spanning” for short) to leverage what they had learned and address the huge and exploding demand for business-class tools to manage and protect information in cloud applications.
The company’s first product is Spanning Backup for Google Apps.
More than 4 million businesses now use Google Apps. If your business is one of them we strongly urge you to back up your data—so you don’t become one of these people. And we invite you to try Spanning Backup for your whole domain free for 14 days. Just add it to Google Apps and see how it feels to know your company’s data in the cloud is protected.
