19 Nov 2008, London. Grove Group today announced that they have been appointed as Google Security & Compliance Authorized Distributor for Europe and Africa. Grove Group is a leading provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions across the EMEA. Grove has been a key partner with Postini over the years selling, enabling and supporting their SaaS security and compliance solutions. Some notable achievements and contracts include:

• Postini Reseller (2005)
• Postini Gold Partner (2006)
• Postini Partner of the Year (2007)
• Google Enterprise Partner (2008)
• And now Google Enterprise Distributor

Philip Witheridge, MD of Grove Group has commented on this unique status by praising Grove Group's support team, “Grove Group offers industry leading software security solutions to clients across the globe, standing out from the rest with our pro-active 24/7 technical support teams in London and Cape Town”

He further states that “If you are looking for improvements in your corporate IT infrastructure then in terms of ease and cost you do not have to look further than SaaS solutions. Google Security (powered by Postini) and the Google Apps are industry leading SaaS technologies, which are easy deployable, scalable and cost effective”

The SaaS market is experiencing strong annual growth and will continue to grow according to forecasts. This is why Grove Group and partners have seen an accelerating adoption rate in their SaaS offerings over the last couple of years. As this kind of service adoption continues to grow so will the Grove, Google and Postini partnership.

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