Symantec Acquisition Messagelabs

JAKARTA - Symantec successfully acquisition MessageLabs, delivery security and safety service feeder of message ( messaging) and Web.

In the agreement it is mentioned that Symantec acquisition MessageLabs will with the price of purchasing equal to USD695 million in the form of cash, with foreign money accomodated namely 310 million Poundsterling and USD154 million. MessageLabs books earnings equal to USD145 million in fiscal year 2008 ended on 31 Julies 2008 and grows more than 20 percentage of fiscal period before all. This agreement still must pass closing clauses of inveterate transaction, including approval from regulator and hope to be complete by the end of year kelender 2008.

With acquisition of this MessageLabs, Symantec reachs for? position of terdepan in segment Software as service ( Software-as-a-Service/ SaaS) and strengthens its(the leadership in delivery security and safety market of message.

MessageLabs is delivery security and safety feeder of message of first one online in world with interest from 8 million users in more than 19000 clients starts from finite small scale enterprise of company Fortune 500. Symantec will exploit cross-selling and up-selling offer backs up, storage and remote access the SaaS to cutomer?client bases MessageLabs. Offer of SaaS in front, by exploiting technology Symantec in data area loss prevention, compliance, endpoint security and archieving, will be strenghtened through expertise of MessageLabs in sale, operational and support from SaaS.

" MessageLabs extends our invesment in segment Software-as-aService and will enable we to offer new choice to the our cutomer?clients out of one solution feeders of delivery security and safety of message. By merging MessageLabs with team Symantec Protection Network, we have one of service portfolio infrastructure bases on cloud? strongest and foundation of remarkable growth," said John W Thompson, chairman and chief executive officer, Symantec, through description of its(the opening, Monday ( 13/10/2008).

By merging expertise of MessageLabs circumstantial in market SaaS and technology portfolio Symantec which is rich, Symantec will be able to offer wide online service portfolio to protect and manages information. By uniting two leader of industry, Symantec in signifikan extends leadership of its(the market in delivery security and safety area of message. Besides, Symantec will present? a real offer multifarious in delivery security and safety market of message, covers software, on file peripheral and service ( hosted services).

This acquisition also continuing momentum Symantec Protection Network, platform Symantec SaaS. By combining MessageLabs and Symantec Protection Network, cutomer?client will reach for benefit from access to panawaran SaaS larger ones at portal which is easy applied and opportunity to do purchasing through broader network from partners in more places in the world. The cutomer?clients of MessageLabs now memiiki access will be able to to offer of Symantec Protection Network through model go-to-market SaaS from Message Labs. Program channel Symantec for UKM and enterprise which have been tested will extend global access to offer Message Labs.

Online service peripheral? well established from Message Labs? for the security [of] message delivery and Internet gives offer of additional complement to online service which have been be available in platform Symantec Protection Network covering Online Backup, Online Storage for Backup Exec and Online Remote Access. 14 data center property of MessageLabs in the world and its(the expertise in sale area, operational and support from SaaS also will support international expansion of service Symantec Protection Network in front.

MessageLabs is added Symantec Protection Network mencipakan Symantec Software-as-a-Service product group will be new to quicken expansion of new SaaS solutions and offer of hybrid to all professional TI. SaaS described as one of trend very influential in world software with estimate of the existing size of the market equal to USD5,71 billion ( at 2007)? and reachs USD16,98 billion at 2012, which according to equivalent IDC with CAGR ( mean growth) 24,4 %.