Google is on a belated Young Year’s solution kick that will see the hunt giant closing some services similar its Google Message Continuity (GMS) email disaster recovery product and open-source Google Sky Function while collaborating with Carnegie Mellon University to develop it for pupil projects.

“As we psyche into 2012, we’ve been sticking to some old resolutions the need to focus on building amazing productions that millions of people love to utilization every day,” Dave Girouard, Google’s vice chairwoman of product management, composed Friday on the company’s official blog. “That means taking a difficult flavour at productions that replicate other features, haven’t achieved the promise we had hoped for or can’t be properly integrated into the overall Google experience.”

Girouard pronounced the enterprise-targeted GMS product, which backs up emails sent and received via on-premise Microsoft Commutation servers, was being phased out because Google has “decided to focus our efforts” on disaster recovery solutions built into Google Apps. Current customers will be able to proceed 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 drear on June 1, though it might be integrated into other platforms, the Picnik online picture editor (paid members will stimulate 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it “isn’t experiencing the kind of adoption we’d like,” and the Urchin online web analytics platform which has been superseded by Google Analytics and will be shut by March.