Increased Security Threats, Data Loss Risks Driving Upgrade Cycle from Legacy Products to Proofpoint: 8 Years of Record Proofpoint Revenues

Many thanks to our partners, fans, friends and customers for helping Proofpoint reach an amazing milestone announced today: Our 32nd sequential quarter - yes, eight straight years - of record Proofpoint revenue.

The dynamics driving Proofpoint's growth in Q2 2011 were similar to those we've seen in recent quarters: A renewed focus in the enterprise on security and threat management,  an increasing number of competitive displacements and a growing interest in cloud-based deployments are playing a huge role.

Quoted in today's press release, our CEO, Gary Steele remarked, “Recent high-profile attacks and data breaches such as those that have struck RSA, Epsilon, U.S. National Laboratories and the International Monetary Fund, among others, have prompted organizations in every industry to re-evaluate their current solutions with an eye toward increasing effectiveness, better securing private data and improving  compliance with regulations. Our solutions meet all of those requirements, which is why – in head-to-head evaluations against competitors – Proofpoint wins nearly 100 percent of the time.”

The full press release describes some of the important large enterprise deals Proofpoint won during Q2 across our key vertical markets including financial services, retail, energy, healthcare and other industries.

Proofpoint added more than one million mailboxes under protection, as those customers replaced solutions from Proofpoint competitors including McAfee (solutions such as CipherTrust, IronMail, McAfee Email Gateway), Google (Postini) and Cisco (IronPort) with Proofpoint’s email security, data loss prevention, email encryption and email archiving solutions.

If your organization is looking for better protection against today's email-related threats, one way to learn more about Proofpoint's solutions is to register for one of our upcoming live demonstrations. Current users of McAfee solutions might be especially interest in downloading our Comparison Guide: Proofpoint Enterprise Vs. McAfee Email Gateway, which you can also access immediately by simply completing the form below: