Spanning, which already offers a backup service for Google Apps, is now riding the coattails of Google Drive, promising to help people see, “What’s in your Google Drive?”
Two days after the Drive announcement, Spanning released a free tool called Spanning Stats that analyzes your Google Drive account. The company says its report provides data including the percentage documents in your Google Drive by type, the 10 newest and oldest files, how much of the total storage quota you’re using by file type, the 10 biggest files, and the 10 users using the most storage space.
It sounds like there were people who really wanted to see those charts and graphs. The company now says that people have used Spanning Stats to scan 25,000 Google Drives. The app is now listed as one of the top installs in the Google Apps Marketplace and the number one install in the Document Management category.
That probably also reflects the initial excitement about Google Drive. In fact, after the announcement, the the data uploaded to Google Docs by Spanning users exploded — before the announcement, the average amount per day was 5 megabytes, but on the day Google Drive launched it went up to 36.8 megabytes, and then 22.6 megabytes the next day.
Spanning Cloud Apps, based in Austin, Texas, was spun out of Spanning Sync, Inc. by its founder Charlie Wood in 2010. Spanning helps its customers protect their business-critical information in the cloud. The company’s flagship product Spanning Backup is business-class, cloud-to-cloud backup for Google Apps. It’s won high praise from customers and has become the most highly-rated security and compliance application on the Google Apps Marketplace. Investors include Foundry Group of Boulder, Colorado.
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