Going All-In on the Cloud
At Spanning we’ve decided to to keep no paper files, and instead use Google Docs as our filing system—for everything. And the thing that’s given us the confidence to go all-in on the cloud? Spanning Backup. All legal, HR, finance, operations, marketing, sales, IT, engineering, and corporate documents—everything but stock certificates, which we’re legally required [...]
Spanning Backup Launches "3 Seats Free" for Google Apps Domains
Today we’re launching a better way for Google Apps admins to try Spanning Backup. It’s called “3 Seats Free”, and it gives every Google Apps domain three Spanning Backup seats absolutely free. These are fully-functional seats that never expire and be assigned to anyone in the domain. Just add Spanning Backup to Google Apps, assign [...]
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 [...]
Moving Collaborative Apps from Groupware to the Cloud
Listen to my conversation with Jon Pyke, Founder and CEO of CIMTrek, which provides tools to migrate legacy applications to cloud platforms. In this podcast, learn why some collaborative applications are holding organisations back from adopting the cloud, and find…
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 [...]
Soccer as a Service
This past weekend I ran the largest Memorial Day youth soccer tournament in the country – and ran it almost entirely online. This post describes some of the tools and technologies which helped our event to be a HUGE success.
Universal, Actionable Search: Zoho’s Improved Answer to “Where’s My Stuff?”
Search, Don’t Organize – is the Google mantra, meaning we should stop wasting time filing away information in folders, sorting, labeling it for later retrieval, when it’s so much easier to search / find it. That is, if you know where to search. Did you discuss that project in email? Or was it a Document? [...]
The Guardian: NoSQL EU. Don’t Melt The Database
What follows is something like a live blog, based on comments from Matthew Wall and Simon Willison from The Guardian the NoSQL EU conference in London today. Wall kicked off the talk with a question about NoSQL: is it a good name for the phenomenon? He says not really, pointing out absurdity of calling SQLite [...]
Note to Google Enterprise: Don’t Get Out Much, do you?
The idea of a cloud drive or folder in the sky is obviously a good one. We’ve been waiting for how long for the fabled gDrive? As a Google Enterprise customer I am glad to know I can now upload any kind of file, up to 250MB, into my account. Very handy. But the use [...]
