Postini was an e-mail,

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security, and archiving service owned by Google since 2007. It provided cloud computing services for filtering e-mail spam and

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(before it was delivered to a client's mail server), offered optional e-mail archiving, and protected client networks from web-borne malware.

History

Postini was a startup company founded in 1999 by Shinya Akamine, Gordon Irlam, Brian Maggi, and Scott Petry in Redwood City, California, United States. It was backed by August Capital, with second-round funding from August as well as

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Accelerator Fund and

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. By February 2005, it was operating ten U.S.

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s, processing 2.5 billion e-mail messages weekly, and providing anti-spam services for more than 4,200 companies and "6 million end users, including workers at

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, Rayovac, and Hormel Foods, the company that makes

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, the canned meat product". Later in 2005 it moved to nearby

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. As of 2012, the number of processed emails is estimated to have been doubled around two times, and Google has added data centers in the EU to better serve its European customers. On July 9, 2007, Google announced that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Postini. Google paid $625 million in cash for the acquisition. The former company's services were then marketed as "Google Postini Services". In September 2011, Google announced it would discontinue a number of its products, including Google Web Security, which was acquired by Google as part of Postini. On August 21, 2012, Google announced it would be shutting down all of Postini's web services and folding the service's users into Google Apps. After a multi-year migration effort, the last customers were migrated to Google Apps in the second half of 2015.

References

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History

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