Two of my favorite things have joined forces! I’ve been a big fan of Postini after seeing it being used by my father-in-law’s home email account. I was impressed at how powerful it was and how easy to use it was … two things that don’t always go together in the I.T. world. After seeing him use it, I marched straight back into the office and signed our company up with Postini and have been happy ever since.

The power of Postini goes beyond their spam/virus detection tools. The true power is in how they have configured the administration. IT Admins can sign into an account and control global settings on the filter (such as sensitivity, junk mail behavior, etc.) and then upload a list of users (or connect to their LDAP) to give end-users as much control as IT thinks they can handle over their accounts.

Bottom line for IT Managers: your team sets it up once and sets the baseline level of detection and then you pass on the rest of the management to each user. They can control their own white/black lists, sensitivity settings, etc. but can only do so within the confines of how you’ve set up the “global” settings. That means your team won’t have to manage adding individual email accounts to white/black lists all day long!

I’m anxious to see what this acquisition means but since I’m a fan of both I have to believe it’ll be positive.