Postini Achieves Record Growth in 2004

Postini Achieves Record Growth in 2004 REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Postini, the industry's leading provider of email security and management services for the enterprise, today announced that the company achieved record growth in 2004, nearly tripling its annual revenues while doubling its customer base. In 2004, the company added over 2,000 new customers, bringing its total to over 4,200 direct customers, and continued to experience its historically high compounded quarterly revenue growth rate. The company was also profitable for the entire year and generated positive cash flow. "As email threats have become more serious, the acceptance of Postini's preemptive managed service approach has grown dramatically," said Scott Petry, founder and senior vice president of products and engineering at Postini. "We are finding more and more companies are switching from early implementations of point product spam solutions to the comprehensive email security solution offered by Postini." Throughout the year, Postini continually demonstrated its leadership in the email security market and was recognized by dozens of industry publications and analysts. The company achieved four major industry awards including "Editors' Choice for Services" by Windows & .NET Magazine and SQL Server Magazine as well as "Product of the Year" award in the content filtering category by Information Security. In addition, the company was selected, for the second year in a row, as the managed service solution of choice for spam protection by Network World, and was one of four products recommended in the publication's "Spam in the Wild, The Sequel" review. Postini was also placed in the Leader Quadrant in Gartner's Enterprise Spam Filtering 1Q 2004 Magic Quadrant. Postini processed more than 95 billion emails in 2004, ten times the amount of its nearest competitor. Postini's daily volume of message connections has risen to 450 million from 200 million a year ago. The company handled more business email than anyone else in the world and continued to be the fourth largest email processor behind only AOL, MSN/Hotmail and Yahoo. Postini also expanded its global efforts during the year, establishing UK operations to meet the demand of its growing European customer base. The company broadened its distribution channels in 2004 by adding 115 new companies to its reseller program. This past year Postini also rolled out version 5.0 of its flagship Perimeter Manager service which expanded its IP analysis capability, further reducing false positives while providing complete email boundary protection that goes well beyond simple content filtering to provide email security at the connection level. The company also built TLS encryption support into its managed service offering, immediately creating the largest encrypted email network in the world, an important feature in the company's vision for a global trusted email network. About Postini Postini, Inc. is the leading provider of email security and management services that protect email infrastructure by preventing spam and attacks from reaching the enterprise gateway. Postini's patented managed services model utilizes exclusive preEMPT transport and content filtering technology to eliminate spam and viruses, stop DoS and directory harvest attacks, safeguard content, and improve email performance. Founded in 1999, Postini processes more than three billion message connections every week for more than 4,200 companies. By blocking spam, viruses and attacks before they can reach the enterprise email gateway, Postini Perimeter Manager is designed to assure complete email security while saving bandwidth, conserving server capacity and minimizing administrative costs. For more information contact Postini at its Redwood City, California headquarters toll-free at 866.767.8461, or visit www.postini.com. Media Contacts: Marty Tacktill Kimberly Canedo Postini Neale-May & Partners 650-482-3197 650-328-5555 ext. 278 marty@postini.combferraro@nealemay.com Source: Postini, Inc. CONTACT: Marty Tacktill of Postini, +1-650-482-3197, or marty@postini.com; or Kimberly Canedo of Neale-May & Partners, +1-650-328-5555, ext. 278, or bferraro@nealemay.com, for Postini Web site: http://www.postini.com/ ------- Profile: International Entertainment