Symantec completes MessageLabs acquisition

Symantec has completed its acquisition of MessageLabs, the leading provider of online messaging services.

The acquisition will propel Symantec in the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) market, expanding Symantec’s existing portfolio of SaaS offerings with messaging and web security services from MessageLabs.

The combined expertise from MessageLabs and Symantec will expand SaaS delivery and customer support models across the Symantec portfolio, along with accelerating Symantec’s market leadership in messaging security, offering customers’ greater choice by providing the broadest range of messaging security options.

Customers will also have greater access to SaaS offerings through the up-sell and cross-sell of combined MessageLabs and Symantec products and services.