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.