Allot Communications is a provider of IP service optimization solutions for service providers, carriers, and enterprises based in Hod HaSharon, Israel. Allot Communications was founded in 1996, by Michael Shurman and Yigal Jacoby, who served as chief executive and chairman until 2006. In November 2003, Deloitte & Touche named Allot the fourth-fastest growing company on its Israel Technology Fast 50 list. This ranking represented revenue growth of nearly 1,900% in a year's time.
Barracuda Networks, Inc. is a company providing security, networking and storage products based on network appliances and cloud services. The company's security products include products for protection against email, web surfing, web hackers and instant messaging threats such as spam, spyware, trojans, and viruses. The company's networking and storage products include web filtering, load balancing, application delivery controllers, message archiving, NG firewalls, backup services and data protection.