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Press Release
FaceTime Sales Up 257 Percent on Record Quarterly Results
Growth Driven by Increased Customer Demand for Solutions to Secure Greynet
Applications Such as IM, P2P File Sharing, and Spyware
FOSTER CITY, CALIF - August 31, 2005 - FaceTime Communications today
announced sales for Q3 2005 which ended July 31, 2005, were up more than 250
percent over the same quarter last year, and increased more than 100 percent
from the previous quarter, ending April 30, 2005. Driven by accelerated
customer adoption for its compliance and security solutions for the management
and control of greynet applications like adware/spyware, instant messaging and
P2P file sharing, FaceTime also reported a record number of new IM security and
anti-spyware customers for the quarter. Seats under management grew to more
than 1.4 million - the largest in the industry.
"As a result of our outstanding third quarter performance, we achieved the
highest revenue quarter in the company's history," said Kailash Ambwani,
president and CEO, FaceTime Communications. "We have expanded our customer
leadership by winning a record number of new customers for regulatory
compliance, IM security, spyware prevention and P2P control. We are continuing
to see our business grow within financial services and we are rapidly extending
across other vertical industries as organizations recognize the need for
visibility and protection against unsanctioned applications."
During the quarter, FaceTime was selected in one of the largest instant
messaging security deployments in the industry - a Fortune 100 global
communications leader chose FaceTime's IM security solution to secure and
control IM for up to 90,000 users worldwide. Other customer highlights this
quarter include one of the largest worldwide accounting and consulting firms
and one of the largest national investment and financial services firms - both
chose FaceTime for visibility and prevention of spyware applications within
their organizations. FaceTime continued to expand its leadership in the
financial services industry, now counting 17 out of 24 Financial Services
Instant Messaging Association (FIMA) members as customers. FIMA is made up of
the leading financial institutions, from both the buy-side and sell-side, and
promotes standards and protocols within the financial services industry.
Additionally, FaceTime grew its customer base within the banking industry,
counting 8 of the 10 largest US banks as customers.
In addition to strong financial performance and new customers, FaceTime also
achieved a number of milestones and operating highlights during the quarter:
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Completed acquisition of patent-pending technology and assets of anti-spyware
vendor XBlock Systems LLC, and the SpywareGuide.com community and information
resource. The XBlock asset acquisition enhances FaceTime's approach to enabling
the secure use of legitimate greynet applications like instant messaging (IM)
and web conferencing, while providing comprehensive protection against
illegitimate applications such as spyware, adware and peer-to-peer (P2P) file
downloads.
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Delivered Real-Time Guardian 3.0 ("RTG 3.0"), the most advanced perimeter
security solution for preventing the spread of spyware and adware in the
enterprise and securing unauthorized IM and P2P usage. See press release:
FaceTime Announces Real-Time Guardian™ 3.0, the First Multi-Channel
Anti-Spyware Perimeter Security Solution.
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Strengthened executive management team with the addition of Frank Cabri as vice
president of Marketing. Prior to FaceTime, Cabri was senior director of
Marketing at web security company Blue Coat Systems, where he managed corporate
and channel marketing initiatives. Cabri was instrumental in the repositioning
of content caching vendor CacheFlow to Blue Coat Systems, where the re-launched
company realized rapid growth in market valuation, achieved profitability and
over $100m in annualized revenue. Prior to Blue Coat, Mr. Cabri worked as
director of Product Management at Novell where he was responsible for the $125m
portfolio of Internet security and network management products. Prior to
Novell, he held various product marketing and product management positions with
MCI.
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Launched IMPact Center - a research arm of FaceTime Security Labs, the IMPact
Center is the only focused and specialized intelligence and response
organization that provides automatic updates to address the rapid proliferation
of new IM and P2P threats and provides an aggregate risk level of the day's
threats, with the IMPact Index™. FaceTime, which employs the largest lab and
research team of its kind in the industry, also announced renowned malware
researcher and Microsoft MVP Christopher "Paperghost" Boyd as security research
manager.
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Strategic partner Reuters announced availability of Reuters Messaging
Compliance Manager, a service that relies on FaceTime's technology to deliver
strict regulatory compliance for IM and P2P networks. The Reuters Messaging
network is the world's largest hosted deployment of Microsoft's Live
Communication Server 2005.
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Continued international expansion announcing a partnership with UK distributor,
Unipalm. Unipalm replaced IMLogic with FaceTime to deliver IM compliance and
security solutions in the UK and Ireland.
"The weekly litany of information loss and corporate embarrassment should
remind everyone of the growing threat from spyware and other nefarious greynet
applications," said Peter Christy, Principal Analyst Internet Research Group.
"Enterprises need to secure and control the legitimate greynet applications
like instant messaging if they are to be confident that they can protect
confidential data and maintain compliance. FaceTime is clearly the market
leader in this important emerging area."
About FaceTime Communications
FaceTime Communications enables the safe and productive use of instant
messaging, Web usage and Unified Communications platforms. Ranked number one by
IDC for four consecutive years, FaceTime's award-winning solutions are used by
more than 900 customers – including nine of the 10 largest U.S. banks – for
security, management and compliance of real-time communications. FaceTime
supports or has strategic partnerships with all leading public and enterprise
IM network providers, including AOL, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Skype, IBM and Jabber.
FaceTime is headquartered in Belmont, California. For more information visit
http://www.facetime.com or call 888-349-FACE.
The FaceForward blog, at http://blog.facetime.com,
offers thoughts and opinions about the changing nature of Internet communications.
PR Contact:
Emily Chamberlin
650-762-2945
echamberlin@ar-edelman.com
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