Introducing Business Continuity editions: Support business continuity and resilience for enterprise customers

October 17, 2025

Introducing Business Continuity editions: Support business continuity and resilience for enterprise customers

What’s changing
When your primary systems are compromised, you need a dependable partner to keep your organization operational. Our new Business Continuity editions are designed to serve as a robust backup solution that works in tandem with your primary, non-Google Workspace collaboration platform, providing a secure and familiar environment that can be activated when you need it most.

We are introducing two distinct offerings to meet your specific needs:

1. Business Continuity
   This edition is a true disaster recovery solution designed for a "cold" standby scenario. It provides a secure, isolated environment to ensure your leadership and critical teams can communicate and collaborate during a crisis.

• Core Functionality: Allows for syncing your active directory, ensuring your user directory is available when needed.
• Usage: Intended for limited use, with access to Google Workspace and generative AI tools like Gemini and NotebookLM for up to 21 days per year.

1. Business Continuity Plus
   This is our full-featured solution for organizations that require a "hot" standby environment with more data readily available to drive immediate adoption and productivity. It is designed to keep your core functions operating with minimal disruption.

• Core Functionality: In addition to allowing for syncing directory, this edition allows for data syncing across any product, including but not limited to email, calendar, drive, chat and more. We recommend using a partner-based solution for implementation.
• Usage: Provides extended access to Google Workspace and generative AI tools for up to 60 days per year.

Learn more about these new offerings in our main blog post: Break free from Microsoft 365’s lock-in, vulnerabilities, and outages with Google Workspace and partners

Getting started

• Admins: These solutions are intended for organizations who do not use Google Workspace for their primary collaboration platform. Contact your Google rep or partner to discuss suitability and purchase options.
• End users: No end user impact.

Availability

• Available everywhere Google Workspace is sold. These solutions are intended for organizations who do not use Google Workspace for their primary collaboration platform.