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Postini, Inc. was an e-mail, Web security, and archiving service owned by Google from 2007 until its closure . It provided cloud computing services for filtering e-mail spam and malware (before it was delivered to a client's mail server), offered optional e-mail archiving, and protected client networks from web-borne malware. In November 2011, Google announced the discontinuation of Postini in August 2012.
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.Google Inc. Form 10-Q 30 June 2007 interim financial statements SEC Accession No. 0001193125-07-175880
The former company's services are now 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.
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