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Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM)
("Akamai") today announced it has completed its acquisition of
Prolexic Technologies, Inc., a privately held company based in Hollywood,
Florida that provides cloud-based security solutions for protecting data
centers and enterprise IP applications from distributed denial of service
(DDoS) attacks. On December 2, 2013, Akamai announced a definitive agreement
between the parties pursuant to which Akamai would acquire all of the
outstanding equity of Prolexic.
The combination of the two companies’ technologies and teams
creates a portfolio of security solutions designed to protect an enterprise’s
Web and IP infrastructure against application-layer, network-layer and data
center attacks delivered via the Internet.