On June 24, 2008, Proofpoint announced it bought Fortiva.
Proofpoint background:
- Technology mainly provides:
- Email-based spam, phishing, and virus control, and policy-based encryption.
- Filtering of outbound information to prevent data leaks. This covers many types of content, including email and attachments, webmail, files, FTP, instant messaging, and blog postings.
- Embodied as customer-premises software, customer-premises appliance, SaaS.
- Majority of products have the same code base across customer-premises software, customer-premises appliance, customer-premises virtual device, SaaS.
Fortiva background:
- Main service offering is Fortiva Archiving Suite. Email archiving, lots of e-discovery services, storage management.
- Company also offers SmartStore. This is a subset of the Archiving Suite, with more limited e-discovery capabilities.
Terms not disclosed. Ferris Research estimates a $12M deal.
For a detailed analysis of this transaction, see our report, Proofpoint Buys Fortiva: Transaction Assessment.
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