Google is on a belated New Year’s answer kick that will see the hunt giant ending some services alike its Google Content Continuity (GMS) email disaster recovery production and open-source Google Sky Function while collaborating with Carnegie Mellon University to develop it for educatee projects.
“As we mind into 2012, we’ve been sticking to some old resolutions the motive to focus on building amazing productions that millions of people love to utilization every day,” Dave Girouard, Google’s vice chairperson of production management, indited Friday on the company’s official blog. “That way taking a hard flavour at productions that replicate other features, haven’t achieved the promise we received hoped for or can’t exist decently integrated into the overall Google experience.”
Girouard enunciated the enterprise-targeted GMS product, which backs up emails sent and had via on-premise Microsoft Exchange servers, was being phased away because Google has “decided to focus our efforts” on disaster recovery solutions constructed into Google Apps. Current customers will exist able to continue applying GMC for the duration of their contracts, however.
Other Google productions being phased out in 2012 include the Needlebase data management, platform, which goes gloomy on June 1, though it might be integrated into other platforms, the Picnik online photograph editor (paid members will induce a refund “in the coming weeks,” granting to Girouard), the Social Graph API, which is getting shut down on April 20 because it “isn’t experiencing the sort of adoption we’d like,” and the Urchin online web analytics platform which has been superseded by Google Analytics and will exist shut by March.
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