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
Summit Partners Accelerator Fund and
Sun Microsystems. 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". 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. == See also ==