Akamai Says Acquisition of Soasta Provides Website Performance Metrics

Akamai Technologies is buying digital performance management company Soasta, which is expected to give the cloud services provider's customers more insight into the performance of their websites and applications, Akamai said. The all-cash deal will close early in Q2, Akamai said in a Wednesday news release. Ash Kulkarni, the company's general manager-web performance and security, said customers will get "new ways to measure, optimize and validate the business impact of their web performance strategies."