New Google acquisition

Internet giant Google has bought Postini, a world leader in on-demand solutions that provide secure communications. In total, the company serves 35 thousand companies and 10 million users worldwide. The price for Postini is that the Internet giant will pay a corresponding price of $ 625 million in cash.

Google announced that Postini’s purchase agreement was reached for $ 625 million in cash. The transaction will be completed approximately in the third quarter of 2007, after which Postini will become a subsidiary of the Internet giant. Google will continue to support Postini customers and will invest in its development.
Postini is a global leader in on-demand solutions focused on securing communications. Services provided by the company, including message security services, archiving, encryption, etc., can be used to protect corporate email systems, instant messaging, and so on. Currently, 35 thousand companies and 10 million users worldwide use the solutions of the company.

According to representatives of both companies, the transition developed by Postini solutions “under the wing” of Google fits perfectly into the business support concepts it promotes, organically fits into the existing Google Apps platform and helps it find new customers and supporters. “The response to Google Apps was awesome; every day, over 1,000 small businesses joined the army of users of this solution. But, however, larger enterprises are not in a hurry to become users of this platform due to security issues and compliance with corporate standards. Now, when we add Postini products to our existing ones, businesses will no longer have to choose - employees will get comfortable products, the company as a whole will provide security and will be able to meet their needs, ”said Dave Girouard, vice president and general manager. Google Enterprise.

Note that for Google this is not the first acquisition in the field of information security. Earlier, the Internet giant bought GreenBorder, a company engaged in the creation of software to protect personal computers from malicious web scripts.
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