The History of Postini!
Posted by Christopher Lyons on Wed, Jun 09, 2010 @ 12:38 PM
Postini, as we all know it, is the Google owned and operated Email and Web Solution. Postini offers Email Security, Email Archving, and Web Security. However, Google only acquired this premier email spam solution just a few years ago, in 2007. Prior to that, here is Postini was thriving for many years.
Postini was founded in 1999 in Redwood City, California. A group of four people; Shinya Akamine, Gordon Irlam, Brian Maggi, and Scott Petry were the original founders and they were backed by August Capital. It's original product names were Perimeter Manager, Perimeter Manager for IM, Archive Manager, and Encryption Manager. According to Wikipedia, "By February 2005, it was operating ten U.S. data centers, 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 Merrill Lynch, Circuit City, Rayovac, and Hormel Foods, the company that makes Spam, the canned meat product."
Today, Postini processes more than 1 billion emails each day, and is currently protecting more than 35,000 businesses. Here at Mosaic Technology, we're an authorized reseller of Postini. Our discounted rates and on-call support staff make it a no-brainer. Sign up for a Postini free trial today!