Google Buys Postini in Enterprise Security Play

July 9th, 2007

With its latest acquisition, Google is looking to move more deeply into the enterprise. On Monday, the search giant announced it has acquired Postini, a security and compliance services provider, for $625 million in cash.Postini’s services include message security, archiving, encryption, and policy enforcement to protect a company’s e-mail, instant messaging, and other Web-based communications. Postini’s services would dovetail with Google’s hosted-solutions strategy, the cornerstone of which is Google Apps, including Gmail, Calendar, Talk, Docs & Spreadsheets, and Personal Start Page. Google claims that Apps has been adopted by more than 100,000 businesses already.

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