[LINK] itNews: 'Google clips Exchange backup service'

Roger Clarke Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au
Mon Jan 23 09:19:33 AEDT 2012


[Make that 51 cloud outages ...]

Google clips Exchange backup service
Liam Tung
itNews
Jan 23, 2012 6:50 AM (1 hour ago)
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/287829,google-clips-exchange-backup-service.aspx

Google has revealed plans to axe its Postini-based cloud back-up 
service for Microsoft Exchange emails in a new round of cuts to the 
firm's product portfolio.

The axing of Google Message Continuity would occur despite "hundreds 
of thousands" of businesses signing up since December 2010.

The service was charged at $US25 per seat for non-Apps customers.

It wasn't necessarily a failure, Dave Girouard, Google's vice 
president of product management, said.

But by contrast, "millions" of businesses had moved entirely to its 
Google Apps product, and that its efforts would focus on that 
instead, Girouard said.

Current customers will be nudged towards Google Apps as the primary 
messaging and collaboration platform, but will have access to the 
service for the duration of the contract.

Several other products are to be shuttered or offloaded.

Google will open source its Sky Map Android app for astronomy 
enthusiasts, while Needlebase, a publishing platform that scrapes and 
organises data from websites, which Google acquired with its travel 
sector purchase, ITA Software, will be retired on June 1, 2012.   

The Picnik photo editor meanwhile will be retired on April 19, 2012, 
followed the next day by Google's Social Graph API.

Also on the chopping block will in March will be a client-hosted 
version of Urchin Software, an analytics tool behind Google 
Analytics. Google will retain the online version of the product. 

The latest cull came shortly after Google's shares fell almost nine 
percent after it missed revenue expectations and reported an eight 
percent fall in second quarter revenues from its "cost per click" 
advertising customers compared with last year.

Google said its overall $10.6 billion quarterly revenues would have 
been $240 million higher if it went back to last year's foreign 
exchange rates.

Google CEO Larry Page said its recently launched social network 
platform Google+ now had 90 million users.

"Over 60 percent of them engage daily and over 80 percent weekly," 
said Page according to a Seeking Alpha trascript.

There are currently a total of 250 million Android devices, he added 
while Gmail now had 350 million active users.


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