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Google Shutters GMS Substitution Disaster Recovery Service and More

Google is on a belated New Year's solvent kick that will see the hunt giant conclusion 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 student projects.

"As we head into 2012, we've been sticking to some old resolutions the motive to focus on building amazing products that millions of people love to employment every day," Dave Girouard, Google's vice chair of production management, indited Friday on the company's official blog. "That means taking a hard spirit at products that replicate other features, haven't achieved the promise we had hoped for or can't be decent integrated into the overall Google experience."

Girouard articulated 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 be able to continue employing GMC for the duration of their contracts, however.

Other Google products being phased out in 2012 include the Needlebase data management, platform, which goes grim on June 1, though it might be integrated into other platforms, the Picnik online picture 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it "isn't experiencing the variety of adoption we'd like," and the Urchin online web analytics platform which has been superseded by Google Analytics and will exist shut by March.

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