Charlie Wood
Charlie is the founder and CEO of Spanning Cloud Apps, a startup that aims to become the Norton Computing of the cloud computing era. He's a married father of two and a native Austinite. He blogs at Moonwatcher
Spanning Backup Now Backing Up Over 1 Billion Google Apps Objects
As of this morning, Spanning Backup has backed up more than 1,000,000,000 calendar events, contacts, and docs for Google Apps users. That’s a billion fewer things our users have to worry about. But what about people who don’t yet back up their Google Apps data? The questions they most often ask are, “Do I really [...]
Got Lots of Google Docs? Spanning Backup Has You Covered.
If you’re a Google Docs power user, today’s update to Spanning Backup will make backing up and restoring your docs even faster. Some people use Google Docs for the occasional spreadsheet or as a convenient way to share notes in a small group. But other people have made Google Docs a central part of their [...]
The Ten-Year "Overnight Success" of Cloud Computing in the Enterprise
Often what looks like overnight success is actually the result of years of hard, grinding work. Look around today and you might think that cloud computing in the enterprise is some new thing that’s happened overnight. Giants like SAP have…
ChromeOS is a Very Big Deal
Google’s ChromeOS is a very big deal. Well, not yet, but it will be. However, some very clever people disagree so I thought it might be useful to go through my rationale for believing what I do. Let me first make a disclaimer: I’m a big fan of Google. For the last four years I’ve [...]
Startups: Two Ways to Fly
It seems to me there are two ways to fly: Design and build an airplane, fuel it, and take off. Stand in a field, flap your arms, and wait for a tornado. Humorously, it’s the arm-flappers who seem to get…
Spanning Backup Launches, $10 Off for Spanning Sync Customers
After months of beta testing, Spanning Backup for Google Apps has launched. Since the beta began, we’ve backed up over 100 million calendar events, contacts, and docs for our users. That’s 100 million fewer things they have to worry about. Now the ability to back up Google Calendar, Contacts, and Docs is commercially available at [...]
Zero Marginal Product Workers
There’s an interesting debate going on over at Tyler Cowan’s Marginal Revolution blog about Zero marginal product workers. Here’s my theory, which I posted in the comments there: Let’s say Jack and John are both employed doing the same work while employment is high (and fear of unemployment is therefore low–if either loses his job [...]
‘The New Polymath’ is a Firehose of Innovation Stories
For years Vinnie Mirchandani has chronicled all kinds of innovation on his his must-read blog New Florence. New Renaissance. Now he’s taken his examination of technology and how it affects business to a whole new level with his new book…
Backup is even more important in the cloud
The cloud is great. Your stuff is stored in only one place. No copies in email attachments, no copies on your laptop, your desktop, and your server. Make a change and there’s no need to send out updates, because it’s always in one place. Right?Right. But delete it in one place and it’s gone. Gone. [...]
