Akamai Honoured as Finalist by TechWorld Awards 2007

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading global service provider for accelerating content and applications online, today announced that the Company had been named a finalist by TechWorld Awards for its 2007 Web Accelerator Product  of the Year.
 

Akamai, the only managed services solution for the acceleration of mission-critical Web applications for business was selected as a Finalist from amongst dozens of entrants with hardware solutions.


David Keane, International Director of Application Performance Solutions (APS) at Akamai, said; "We are delighted that TechWorld has recognised themarket leadership of our application performance solutions (APS).


"As we move to a world where most applications are being used in an IPenvironment, ensuring the performance, accessibility and security of these applications is becoming critical to many businesses.  Akamai's APSsolutions address the 'middle mile' performance of these applications on the Internet, to ensure the best performance available without the need to expand infrastructure, which is an issue with conventional appliance-based solutions."


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