Google to Merge Postini Email Security Services Into Google Apps

Google is ending its stand-alone Postini email security offering and merging it into its Google Apps products as part of a consolidation move to simplify its services.

The move comes almost five years after Google purchased Postini in September 2007 for about $625 million. Since the acquisition, Google has been integrating Postini's products, personnel and processes into Google's Enterprise Division.

For Postini customers, that means that they'll be gradually moved over to contracts for the services through Google Apps, rather than directly from Postini, according to a Google Support Blog posted the week of Aug 20. The changes will begin with Postini customers whose contracts end starting on Nov. 1, according to Google.