Google Pitches Workspace Tools For ‘when, Not If’ microsoft 365 Fails

Google is trying to capitalize connected what it calls “frequent and severe” Microsoft 365 outages by offering up services for illustration email, storage, and videoconferencing to businesses successful nan arena of a Microsoft outage. The hunt giant’s caller Business Continuity plan runs a Google Workspace successful parallel pinch Microsoft 365, truthful if there’s an outage past businesses conscionable move complete to Gmail and Google Meet alternatively of Outlook and Microsoft Teams.

“Workspace, pinch support from our partners, will sync emails, calendars, chat, and much pinch Microsoft 365, truthful customer information is correct wherever organizations request it, without requiring migration,” explains Google. “This tin protect against disruptions to nan halfway business and impacts to customers.”

Google says “it’s a mobility of erstwhile and for really long, not if,” Microsoft 365 goes down, and points to nan company’s Microsoft 365 Status relationship connected X that regularly posts outages. The past Microsoft 365 outage occurred on October 8th, conscionable days aft a problematic configuration change impacted mailbox connectivity for users.

Alongside nan continuity action of moving a parallel lawsuit of Gmail, Google is besides offering up a Work Transformation Set that acts arsenic a replacement for Microsoft 365 customers that are “ready to time off down Microsoft’s lock-in and information incidents.” It combines Workspace and Gemini pinch options to brace them pinch personality solutions for illustration Okta.

Microsoft and Google person a agelong history of trading blows publically for illustration this. Both companies returned to conflict each other past year, aft Microsoft accused Google of being down what it calls “shadow campaigns” to undermine and discredit Microsoft’s unreality business. More than a decade ago, Microsoft moreover ran onslaught ads that treated Google for illustration a governmental force with its Scroogled campaign, accusing Google of snooping connected consumers.