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Virus attacks highest ever in July, Google says

Google Subnet — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:58:27 -0400

With two Gmail outages in as many weeks, perhaps it's time that Google turned its attention to e-mail security, specifically e-mail viruses. The company posted notes on both the Google Online Security Blog and on Google's Enterprise Blog saying that this July was hands-down the worst for virus attacks and noted that on July 24 alone, Google's Postini servers encountered nearly 10 million virus-laden messages.

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RE: Google unbundles Postini security services

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:45:14 -0500

How about a story on how this SCREWS Postini's channel resellers, by offering online "basic" Postini filtering for 1/10th of the former retail price & even the "regular" product (inbound\outbound\custom filtering\spooling) for LESS than the current COST to resellers ($12 vs. $15).

RE: Why did Google acquire Postini?

Louis Naugès — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:19:48 -0400

I think there are two main reasons that explain why Google has acquired Postini: - Archiving as a way to get large clients on Google Apps when they face legal requirements (SOX...). I have already seen many requests in this field. - A set of clients using Exchange or IBM Lotus Notes to whom it will be easier to propose a move to Google Apps. I don't think Google will acquire an email company which has an offering for Intranet. Two reasons : - Outside of Notes and Exchange, no vendor has a significant market share. - This will go against the main strategy of Google, offering SaaS solutions which run on its ultra efficent infrastructures. Of course, I may be wrong! Time will tell.