Understanding Application Visibility with Blue Coat PacketShaper

We tested a PacketShaper 900 on a small test network showing how it can discover, classify and prioritize application traffic. We address four different questions that IT managers have about understanding how bandwidth-consuming applications interact over their networks, and how individual applications can be controlled for particular use cases.

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Blue Coat Positioned in Leaders Quadrant in WAN Optimization Controller Quadrant

Blue Coat Systems, Inc. , the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that it has been positioned in the Leaders quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers1 byresearch and advisory firm Gartner, Inc. Blue Coat® Proxy SG® appliances accelerate the delivery of internal, external and real-time applications across the distributed enterprise and are a key component, along with Blue Coat PacketShaper® appliances, of the Blue Coat Application Delivery Network infrastructure.

“Blue Coat has consistently innovated within the market to enhance traditional WAN optimization with visibility and security technologies that provide the application intelligence enterprises need to contain costs and align IT investments with business priorities,“ said Bethany Mayer, senior vice president, Worldwide Marketing and Corporate Development, Blue Coat Systems. ”We believe our position in the Leaders quadrant is further validation that the WAN optimization market is increasingly becoming part of a broader application-aware infrastructure.”

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Blue Coat Invests in PacketShaper Appliances to Expand Application Awareness

Visibility into Spotify Enables Businesses to Control Traffic for Optimized Business Application Performance. Blue Coat Systems, Inc. , the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that it has expanded the number of applications that Blue Coat® PacketShaper® appliances can discover, classify and prioritize. With the addition of the new plug-in that can identify traffic from online radio service Spotify, Blue Coat continues to invest in the PacketShaper appliance and enable businesses to control the applications running on their network.

“Visibility is fundamental to optimizing application performance and we intend to continue to invest in our PacketShaper appliances to provide enterprises with an expanded view into the applications that are running on their networks,” said Carrie Oakes, vice president of product management and marketing at Blue Coat Systems. “Granular visibility is the lynchpin in the Blue Coat Application Delivery Network infrastructure and provides enterprises with the actionable intelligence they need to optimize application performance and align IT investments with business requirements.”

Spotify is a proprietary peer-to-peer streaming music application that utilizes client computers to create a library of music. Spotify has more than one million users and is currently available in the U.K., Finland, Sweden, Norway, France and Spain, and is expected to launch elsewhere, including in the U.S. According to Spotify, average listening times are over an hour per user per day and the recommended bandwidth requirement is 256 Kbps.

Network managers can utilize Blue Coat PacketShaper appliances to discover and control Spotify by limiting bandwidth for the application, blocking it or reducing its priority to protect the performance of other business applications.

PacketShaper appliances can identify more than 600 applications – from flash and peer-to-peer to Oracle and Facebook – that are running on the network and monitor more than 100 metrics of every application session. With this in-depth visibility, network managers can apply granular controls in the form of bandwidth guarantees, prioritization and quality of service to business applications, such as video conferencing or customer resource management systems, to ensure recreational applications do not interfere with the performance of those that are critical to the business.

With the visibility that PacketShaper appliances provide, network managers can set and enforce corporate IT policies to optimize and accelerate business applications and block or limit non-business applications. Blue Coat offers unmatched visibility into the performance and security of applications running across the network, providing enterprises with the control they need to contain costs, enhance business productivity and respond quickly to changing business requirements.

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Korea’s NHIC Selects Blue Coat Appliances for Web Security and Control

ProxySG Appliances Provide Visibility into Web Content and Protect Against Malicious Content. Blue Coat Systems, Inc. , the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that Korea’s National Health Insurance Corporation (NHIC) has deployed Blue Coat® ProxySG® appliances to enforce consistent corporate IT policies across the distributed organization and protect against Web-based malicious content.

“NHIC handles sensitive personal health information, so a robust security solution that allows us to enforce our IT policy for all applications and traffic is essential,” said Hwang Sang-Gu, manager of National Health Insurance Corporation. “With Blue Coat ProxySG appliances, we gain visibility into Web applications and content crossing our Internet gateway, allowing us to better protect the confidentiality of our patients and prevent malicious content that can be introduced through Web use from spreading through our system.”

As the national health organization of Korea, NHIC is subject to regulations protecting patient confidentiality and any security breach could be damaging to both the organization’s reputation as well as public confidence in it. NHIC deployed Blue Coat ProxySG appliances to ensure the privacy of confidential personal information through the use of internal and Web-based applications by employees and patients.

Blue Coat ProxySG appliances enable NHIC to securely control employee access to internal applications and patient access to Web-based applications that are utilized for scheduling appointments, managing prescriptions and viewing test results. With the ability to inspect SSL-encrypted traffic, ProxySG appliances can also apply consistent IT policies to applications that would otherwise be obscured from inspection and policy enforcement.

“Web use can open a door through which spyware or malicious applications can enter and sensitive information can exit,” said Matt Young, vice president, Asia Pacific region, Blue Coat Systems. “Blue Coat ProxySG appliances help organizations like NHIC see and secure Web-based activity to ensure compliance with regulations and policies.”

Together with WAN optimization, visibility and security are fundamental technologies in the Blue Coat Application Delivery Network Infrastructure that is designed to optimize and secure the flow of information to users across the distributed enterprise.

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Blue Coat ProxyClient Software Gains OESISOK Certification

First Mobile URL Filtering Solution to Be OESISOK Certified. Blue Coat Systems, the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that the Blue Coat® ProxyClient software is the first mobile URL filtering solution to be certified through the OESISOK certification program. OESISOK certification verifies that ProxyClient software operates with an organization’s network connectivity devices. Blue Coat ProxyClient software is the first client solution to both extend the enforcement of corporate IT policies and the acceleration of remote applications and file transfers to remote and mobile enterprise users.

“The rapid growth of remote and mobile workers has made it critical that enterprises have a strategy for securing distributed users and are confident that their mobile protection is fully interoperable with network and security IT policies,” said Dave Asprey, vice president of technology and corporate development at Blue Coat Systems. “As the first mobile URL filtering solution to receive OESISOK certification, businesses can deploy ProxyClient software to protect mobile employees from Web-based malicious content with the confidence of knowing that it will seamlessly interoperate within their existing network framework.”

Blue Coat ProxyClient software enables businesses to consistently set and enforce centrally managed corporate IT policies across the distributed enterprise, including remote and mobile users. Additionally, ProxyClient users are part of the Blue Coat WebPulse cloud service that provides a community watch environment in which the discovery of malware by one user immediately protects all users. WebPulse implements Dynamic Link Analysis to ensure that real-time inputs from this community are thoroughly assessed using multiple analysis tools. Updates based on the assessments are immediately shared with all members of the community, without requiring downloads, to ensure proactive layers or protection against Web-based malicious content.

OESISOK is an open industry-wide certification program that was established by OPSWAT, a provider of endpoint security integration technologies, to provide independent interoperability verification. The OESISOK certification program required Blue Coat ProxyClient software to complete several phases of installation and verification testing to ensure it is both functional and interoperable with network devices. Upon completion of the testing, Blue Coat ProxyClient software received OESISOK certification to confirm its interoperability status.

“The OESISOK certification program eliminates guesswork by ensuring that customers are using first-rate endpoint security solutions that are interoperable with market leading security applications,” said Benny Czarny, president and CEO of OPSWAT, Inc. “By getting their solution certified, vendors can benefit from better visibility and increased demand for their solution.”

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Blue Coat to Highlight ROI of Application Delivery Networks at HP Technology Forum

Blue Coat Systems, Inc, the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that Vice President of Technology and Corporate Development Dave Asprey will outline how the Application Delivery Network delivers the visibility, acceleration and security technologies that enterprises require to realize a rapid return on network investments. The live session will take place during the HP Technology Forum in Las Vegas on Wednesday, June 17, at 9:15 a.m.

“The Application Delivery Network provides enterprises with the comprehensive application and user control required to contain costs, enhance business productivity and provide proactive layers of defense,” said Asprey. “With an application-aware infrastructure like the Application Delivery Network, enterprises can tightly align network resources and respond quickly to changing business requirements.”

To highlight the importance of an application-aware infrastructure, Blue Coat will host real-time demonstrations of the power of its combined visibility and acceleration solutions in its booth #135. The integration of Blue Coat® PacketShaper® and ProxySG® appliances allows customers to accelerate applications while maintaining visibility into that traffic. With that visibility, customers can set and enforce quality of service levels for specific applications, such as video conferencing or VoIP. Traditional WAN optimization solutions enclose optimized applications in a tunnel, which impedes an enterprise’s ability to see the applications that are running on the network and set application-specific service guarantees.

“Visibility is the foundation of the Application Delivery Network and is critical to both understanding what is running on the network and being able to intelligently and quickly act on that knowledge,” said Asprey. “That application-level visibility enables enterprises to build successful business processes that speed decision making and fuel a competitive advantage.”

The Application Delivery Network utilizes a combination of visibility, acceleration and security technologies to provide enterprises with the tools they need to optimize and secure the flow of information to distributed users across the extended enterprise.

The HP Technology Forum is the largest event for IT professionals using HP technologies. The Forum runs through June18, 2009, in Las Vegas.

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Blue Coat Named WAN Optimization Market Leader by Infonetics

ndustry Analyst Group Reports that Blue Coat is Only Company in Market with Quarter Over Quarter Revenue Growth




SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 8, 2009 – Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCSI), the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that it has been ranked as the leader in the WAN optimization market, according to a new report from communications market research firm Infonetics Research. As the only company to show quarter over quarter revenue growth, Blue Coat increased its market share from 25.1 percent to 30 percent in the first calendar quarter of 2009 and became the market leader in WAN optimization.

"Increasingly, WAN optimization is fundamental to a new application-aware infrastructure that provides more than just application and file acceleration,” said Bethany Mayer, senior vice president, Worldwide Marketing and Corporate Development, Blue Coat Systems. "The unique combination of visibility, acceleration and security offered by our ProxySG appliances provides the technological innovation and differentiation that has propelled Blue Coat to the leader in the WAN optimization market.”

Blue Coat WAN Optimization – A Part of Application Delivery Networks
WAN optimization is a critical technology component of Application Delivery Networks, which integrate visibility, acceleration and security technologies to optimize and secure business applications.

Blue Coat® ProxySG® appliances accelerate enterprise applications, on-demand or live video, and remote file access across the Wide Area Network (WAN). At the same time, ProxySG appliances provide visibility into Web content and applications, enabling enterprises to accelerate business applications, including SSL-encrypted ones, while limiting the impact of recreational traffic. The appliances can also protect against Web-based malware, spyware and other malicious threats. When combined with the extended visibility and advanced quality of service from Blue Coat PacketShaper® appliances, ProxySG appliances provide businesses with an Application Delivery Network infrastructure.

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Blue Coat to Showcase Secure IPv6 Migration Path for Applications and Services

SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 3, 2009 – Blue Coat Systems, the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that it will demonstrate a secure migration path for applications and services from IPv4 to IPv6 during Interop Tokyo, 10-12 June, 2009. The technology demonstration will be part of ShowNet, Interop Tokyo’s network that will showcase the interoperability of emerging technologies and service architectures, such as virtualization, cloud computing and IPv6.

In the early design stages of the Internet, IPv4 (Internet Protocol Version 4) was created to enable devices to communicate with one another and supported roughly 4 billion IP addresses. However, the exponential growth in the number of communications devices using IP addresses is exhausting the available supply, which is expected to last through the next 12 to 24 months. At that time, only IPv6 addresses or existing IPv4 addresses will be available for use by new communications devices, and as a result, organizations will need to be able to transparently resolve IPv6 address requests, a problem that has been magnified by the growing adoption of Web-based services.

“While some organizations, particularly service providers and governments, have been preparing their networks for the transition to IPv6, the same attention hasn’t yet been paid to applications, creating potential security and services continuity challenges for businesses,” said Qing Li, Blue Coat Systems senior technologist and co-author of a two-volume reference series on IPv6. “The lack of true IPv6 application-oriented solutions, coupled with an economic climate of constrained IT budgets, will force organizations to investigate migration strategies in contrast to full-scale upgrades.”

With an intelligent IPv6 proxy appliance acting as an intermediary, the retrieval of applications, services and data in either an IPv4 or IPv6 environment is transparent to the users. This migration strategy ensures business process continuity without the complications associated with address translations, rewriting applications or upgrading the underlying network infrastructure. Additionally, secure proxy appliances are already an integral part of networks, so this migration path represents the least intrusive transition, enabling organizations to maximize return on existing and new network infrastructure investments and to scale networks in line with changing business requirements.

“To successfully navigate the transition to IPv6, organizations need a strategy that enables the secure migration of business applications and services without the need to rewrite them for an IPv6 environment,” continued Qing. “By utilizing an intelligent IPv6 proxy appliance to bridge IPv4 and IPv6 networks at the application layer, organizations can maintain their existing network and application configuration while enforcing compliance with corporate IT policies.”

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Blue Coat Reports Financial Results for Fourth Quarter

SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 2, 2009 – Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BCSI), the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, today reported its financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended April 30, 2009. Total net revenue for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009 was $114 million, an increase of 29% compared to net revenue of $88 million in the same quarter last year, and an increase of 4% compared to net revenue of $110 million in the immediately preceding quarter. Excluding net revenue associated with Packeteer, net revenue for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009 was $89 million, an increase of 1% compared to net revenue of $88 million in the same quarter last year, and an increase of 3% compared to net revenue of $86 million in the immediately preceding quarter.

Net revenue for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2009 was $445 million, an increase of 46% when compared to net revenue of $305 million for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2008. Excluding net revenue associated with Packeteer, net revenue for fiscal 2009 was $356 million, an increase of 16% compared to net revenue of $305 million in fiscal 2008.

“I am pleased with our team’s ability to execute in the midst of a difficult economic environment,” said Brian NeSmith, President and Chief Executive Officer, Blue Coat Systems. “Our Application Delivery Network value proposition, coupled with the mission-critical nature and compelling ROI of our products, positions us well in challenging times.”

“Looking back on the year, I believe we had a strong fiscal 2009. In a fairly short period of time, Blue Coat has evolved to be a leader in WAN optimization and extended its leadership position in the secure Web gateway market.”

On a GAAP basis, the Company reported net loss of $3 million, or $(0.09) per share, in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009, compared to net income of $12 million, or $0.32 per diluted share, in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2008, and net income of $1 million, or $0.02 per diluted share, in the third quarter of fiscal 2009.

For the fiscal year 2009, the Company reported net loss of $9 million, or $(0.22) per share, compared to net income of $33 million, or $0.82 per diluted share, in fiscal 2008.

The Company reported non-GAAP net income of $8 million, or $0.19 per diluted share, in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009, compared to non-GAAP net income of $13 million, or $0.33 per diluted share, in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2008, and non-GAAP net income of $9 million, or $0.21 per diluted share, in the third quarter of fiscal 2009.

For the fiscal year 2009, the Company reported non-GAAP net income of $36 million, or $0.84 per diluted share, compared to non-GAAP net income of $49 million, or $1.24 per diluted share, in fiscal 2008.

Non-GAAP net income generally excludes charges related to the fair value write-up of acquired inventory sold, stock-based compensation expense, amortization of intangible assets, expenses for matters related to the stock option investigation, restructuring expenses, and assumes a long term effective tax rate of 30% on non-GAAP pre-tax income. A discussion of non-GAAP financial measures is provided under the section “About Non-GAAP Financial Measures” later in this press release. A detailed reconciliation of the GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures is included in Table 2 of this press release.

The Company ended the quarter on April 30, 2009, with cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash of $115 million, an increase of $3 million from the prior quarter. Cash flow provided by operations in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009 was $5 million and $58 million for the year ended April 30, 2009.

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Youngone Trading Selects Blue Coat Appliances for WAN Optimization

Blue Coat ProxySG Appliances Accelerate Business-Critical Applications and Distribution of Image Files by up to 180 Times

SUNNYVALE, Calif., June2, 2009 – Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCSI), the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that Youngone Trading, based in Seoul, Korea, has selected Blue Coat® ProxySG® appliances to accelerate the applications and content across its Wide Area Network (WAN) between the company’s headquarters and overseas factories. Blue Coat ProxySG appliances have addressed significant issues that previously confronted Youngone Trading with respect to the performance and delivery of its critical business applications, including SAP and the distribution of image files to individual factories.

Youngone Trading, one of the largest outdoor and sports clothes makers in Korea, has 5 factories throughout Asia, including Bangladesh, China and Vietnam, where network infrastructure is not robust and application delivery is slow or unpredictable. Youngone Trading recognized that by implementing WAN optimization technologies into its existing network infrastructure it could effectively speed the response time for enterprise applications and file transfers between its branch offices. As a consequence of conducting competitive benchmarking testing, Youngone Trading determined that the Blue Coat WAN Optimization solution yielded the most impressive set of application delivery response times. Initially Youngone Trading deployed a Blue Coat ProxySG appliance in its Korean headquarters, as well as appliances in its factories located in Vietnam, China and Bangladesh. Subsequent project phases will encompass additional locations.

“Our rapidly changing business requirements demand application delivery solutions that provide fast, efficient exchange of key business applications and photographic images of our products between our regional factories and our corporate headquarters,” said Lee Kwang-Hae, manager of Youngone Trading. “Through the successful deployment of Blue Coat ProxySG appliances, we can more effectively manage our bandwidth consumption, increase the productivity of our employees and streamline business process workflows. Through the deployment of Blue Coat ProxySG appliances our file transfer response times are now 180 times faster than before, which makes our business more responsive to changing requirements.”

Before Youngone Trading deployed Blue Coat ProxySG appliances, it was a highly time-consuming process to upload product images to headquarters or share them between factories. Consistent and predictable access to product images is essential to the company’s ability to ensure consistent product manufacturing and to more quickly meet the needs of sales and marketing groups in the company’s headquarters.

“Blue Coat ProxySG appliances are designed to optimize the flow of information to any user on any network, anywhere,” said Matt Young, vice president, Asia Pacific region, Blue Coat Systems. “Youngone Trading is utilizing the Blue Coat ProxySG appliances to contain costs, improve business productivity and gain a sustainable competitive advantage.”

Blue Coat WAN Optimization – A Part of Application Delivery Networks
Blue Coat ProxySG appliances enable WAN optimization by accelerating enterprise applications, on-demand or live video, and remote file access between a centralized data center or corporate headquarters and branch offices. At the same time, the ProxySG appliances can provide visibility of Web content and applications so that acceleration can be applied granularly, only to business-critical applications, including cloud-based services that may use SSL encryption. The appliances can also identify and stop malicious threats and help regulate non-business applications. When combined with the extended visibility and advanced quality of service from Blue Coat PacketShaper® appliances, ProxySG appliances provide businesses with an Application Delivery Network. Application Delivery Networks integrate visibility, acceleration and security to optimize and secure the flow of business information.


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Blue Coat to Hold Q4 Results Announcement on June 2, 2009

Company to Present at Bank of America and Merrill Lynch U.S. Technology Conference on June 3, 2009

SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 1, 2009 – Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCSI), the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that it will present its financial results for the fourth quarter of its 2009 fiscal year on Tuesday, June 2, 2009. Blue Coat will issue a press release with details on the financial results just after 1:00 p.m. Pacific, followed by a conference call at 2:00 p.m. Pacific. The conference call can be accessed through an audio webcast from the company’s website, www.bluecoat.com/company/investorelations, or through a dial-in phone conference at (800) 230-1951 (toll-free in the US) or (612) 288-0329. In addition, a replay of the call will be available beginning 4:00 p.m. Pacific on June 2, 2009 through June 16, 2009 at (800) 475-6701 (toll-free in the US) or (320) 365-3844, both with the access code 103195. The call has been rescheduled from May 27, 2009.

Blue Coat further announced that its president and chief executive officer, Brian NeSmith, will present at the Bank of America and Merrill Lynch U.S. Technology Conference in New York on June 3, 2009, as originally scheduled.

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Research Reveals Seven Common Pitfalls to Successful High Quality Video

Blue Coat PacketShaper Provides Visibility and Quality of Service for Cost Advantages and Productivity Gains Associated with Video Conferencing


SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 1, 2009 – Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCSI), the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that, according to a global survey it initiated through a research organization, more than 73 percent of enterprises are putting greater emphasis on using high quality video conferencing in place of travelling. The results are consistent with a 2008 study conducted by Nemertes Research, showing that more than 75 percent of IT executive respondents are currently using or planning to use room video conferencing, and more than 50 percent are using or planning to use desktop video conferencing. At the same time, Blue Coat field personnel have witnessed a number of commonly made mistakes in trying to add high quality video conferencing to existing networks and has developed a list of the top seven.

"IT executives say that existing video conferencing systems are often underutilized because of cost, poor video quality and complexity," said Irwin Lazar, vice president, Nemertes Research. "Now, lower costs, better quality, greater ease of use and the desire to use video to reduce travel expenses are creating a 'perfect storm' to drive increased video conferencing demand."

Video Conferencing Must Be Picture Perfect
Rather than running high quality video conferencing over dedicated lines, most organizations are moving towards using it over their existing WAN links to save costs and provide greater flexibility. Without proper visibility of applications running on the network and the means to establish and maintain quality video conferencing sessions, many businesses will experience issues that will undermine the effective use of video conferencing. The most prevalent quality issues involve:

* Frozen video – where the video has ceased to advance while the audio may or may not continue
* Video out of synchronization – where the video is lagging behind the audio
* Artifacts – where portions of the video image are obscured by dark blocks that are not part of the image

“While high quality video conferencing has the potential to replicate the immediacy of an in-person meeting, it places significant performance demands on a network that must serve multiple functions,” said Bethany Mayer, senior vice president, Worldwide Marketing, Blue Coat Systems. “The quality of the user experience is essential for adoption or continued use, and there is very little forgiveness; it needs to be nearly perfect. This can only be accomplished through a combination of application visibility and active quality of service controls.”

Seven Common Mistakes to Avoid
From assessing flawed video conferencing deployments around the world, Blue Coat has developed a list of the seven most common mistakes that companies make in trying to deploy video conferencing:


1. Assessment - failure to assess the network’s readiness for video conferencing
2. Bandwidth Provisioning - failure to provision adequate bandwidth for each video conferencing session
3. Proactive Monitoring - lack of ability to proactively monitor the quality of each video conferencing session
4. Troubleshooting - lack of ability to troubleshoot a video conferencing session if the quality is impaired
5. Unprotected Session Set-up – lack of bandwidth for set-up transactions causing significant delays in starting a new video conferencing session
6. Limitations of Existing Infrastructure - belief that the existing networking infrastructure readily will be able to establish the proper quality necessary for video conferencing
7. Disrupting Other Applications - improper management of video conferencing resulting in excessive bandwidth use or network contention that prevents other applications from running properly


Numerous high quality video conferencing customer deployments show that products such as Blue Coat® PacketShaper® appliances can ensure quality video conferencing sessions over existing networks while protecting the quality of other applications. In addition, the appliances can monitor the performance of video conferencing sessions to ensure they are providing a consistent experience for users. PacketShaper appliances can adjust network parameters if the quality of a video conferencing session is at risk. The appliances also apply advanced compression technologies to reduce the bandwidth requirements for each session. While voice and video data is already compressed by the video conferencing codecs, PacketShaper appliances have specialized header compression and packet packing technologies that can decrease the traffic associated with voice and video conferencing traffic.

Manage and Optimize All Enterprise Video
In addition to video conferencing, Blue Coat solutions can also manage other uses of enterprise video. Blue Coat® ProxySG® appliances can ease the burden of making on demand video available to branch office users by storing a copy of the video in each location after a first user has requested it. That way, additional users will benefit from a rapid start up time since the video is already stored in the branch office. The WAN also benefits, as the video needs to cross it only one time for each office. Videos can also be “pre-populated” or distributed automatically overnight or at times of the lowest network usage so that it is in each location before a user actually requests it.

ProxySG appliances can also ease the burden of running live video over the WAN through its integrated stream-splitting technology and provide intelligent caching for on demand video used in training. For live video streaming, each branch office receives a single stream of video, and then the branch office-based ProxySG appliance splits it into the number of streams required to serve the users requesting it. In this way, only a single stream of video has to pass the WAN for each branch office rather than a stream for each user. For training videos or advertising that isn’t live, on demand caching and CDN capabilities make it possible to deliver consistent messages and training to your entire company – even recorded video conferences.

The use of video for video conferencing, on demand training or live company events continues to expand as an effective means of communication across a distributed enterprise. Video applications must be managed and monitored to achieve the necessary levels of scale and quality while also ensuring the proper performance for other applications using the WAN.



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Blue Coat Postpones Q4 Financial Results Announcement Until First Week of June

SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 27, 2009 – Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCSI), the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that its earnings announcement for the fourth quarter ended April 30, 2009, originally scheduled for today, May 27, 2009, will be postponed in order to enable the company to complete its financial statements for the period. The company said that it is conducting additional procedures as a result of a recently identified irregularity with a single shipment in its European operations. The company will announce a new date for the earnings announcement, which it expects will occur during the week of June 1, 2009. The company believes that its fourth quarter revenue and non-GAAP EPS will be within the ranges previously announced.

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Blue Coat to Host Fourth Annual Community Art Showcase in Sunnyvale

Grants and Prizes to Be Awarded to Local High School Art Programs and Students


What:
Blue Coat Systems is hosting the Fourth Annual Community Art Showcase Friday, May 29, 2009 at its Sunnyvale, CA headquarters.

The Annual Community Art Show brings together teachers, students, families and members of the community to support local arts programs and enjoy paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography and graphic art by talented students from 23 local high schools. Everyone is welcome to attend the showcase, meet the artists and enjoy great food, fun and prizes. The awards ceremony will begin at 5:00 p.m. Please visit www.bluecoat.com/artshow for additional details.

Who:
Artists and educators from 23 local high schools participate in the Annual Art Showcase that the entire community can enjoy.

The showcase will feature artists from the following local high schools:

Abraham Lincoln, AchieveKids, Andrew P. Hill, Bellarmine, Cupertino, Evergreen, Freestyle, Fremont, Henry M. Gunn, Homestead, Los Gatos, Lynbrook, Monta Vista, Notre Dame, Oak Grove, Palo Alto, Piedmont Hills, San Jose High Academy, Santa Clara, Santa Teresa, Silver Creek, Westmont Gunn, William Overfelt

Speakers at this year’s event will include Sunnyvale Mayor Anthony Spitaleri, John Loomis, director of the School of Art and Design at San Jose State University, Dave De Simone, senior vice president products and operations at Blue Coat, and Donna Gemperle, Blue Coat facilities manager.

Local members of the art community will be judging the competition, including: Mr. Loomis, Susan O’Malley, assistant curator at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, artist Paule Dubois Dupuis, Bethany Mayer, senior vice president worldwide marketing at Blue Coat Systems and Donna Gemperle

Where:
Blue Coat Systems
420 North Mary Ave. (Upper level of parking garage)
Sunnyvale, CA

When:
Friday, May 29, 2009
4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. PT

Statistics:
Art Show participation has nearly doubled each year with more than
1,200 pieces of art on display for judging in 2008

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Ocean Sky Builds Competitive Advantage with Blue Coat ProxySG Appliances

Blue Coat Appliances Enable Ocean Sky to Build Virtual Studio and Recruit Leading Designers from across the Region


SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 27, 2009 – Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCSI), the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that Ocean Sky, an integrated apparel company, has deployed Blue Coat® ProxySG® appliances to securely enable cross-regional collaboration among its design, manufacturing and distribution teams. With ProxySG appliances, Ocean Sky has built a virtual design environment that allows the company to assemble cutting edge talent from across Asia Pacific, creating a competitive advantage.

"The success of our business depends on cross-regional cooperation where employees from different teams can collaborate to improve efficiencies in our development and distribution processes," said Margaret Tang, senior IT manager at Ocean Sky. “With Blue Coat, we are able to attract and retain key talent from all over Asia by operating a single, virtual studio.”

To enable efficient collaboration within Ocean Sky, Blue Coat ProxySG appliances utilize a combination of Wide Area Network (WAN) optimization technologies, including compression, caching, pre-population and protocol optimization. The combination of these technologies improved Ocean Sky’s application response times and also reduced its bandwidth consumption across the WAN. With the deployment of Blue Coat appliances, Ocean Sky has not only created a virtual design environment, but it can also source materials throughout the region.

The same ProxySG appliances that optimize applications across the WAN also provide Ocean Sky with an effective point of control for enforcing corporate IT policies. With centralized policy enforcement, ProxySG appliances ensure that policies are consistently enforced across Ocean Sky’s distributed workforce.

"For businesses that operate globally or across large regions, like Ocean Sky, ensuring rapid application response times is critical running an efficient business," said Matt Young, vice president of Asia Pacific, Blue Coat Systems. "Blue Coat delivers the unique combination of WAN optimization and security technologies that allows Ocean Sky employees to collaborate from design to distribution."

The WAN optimization technologies that are intrinsic to ProxySG appliances are a critical component of the Blue Coat Application Delivery Network infrastructure. An application-aware infrastructure, the Application Delivery Network provides visibility, acceleration and security to optimize and secure the delivery of applications across the distributed enterprise.


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Blue Coat Announces Participation in Upcoming Investor Conferences

SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 26, 2009 – Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BCSI), the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced Brian NeSmith, president and chief executive officer of Blue Coat Systems, will be speaking at the following investor conferences in its first quarter of fiscal 2010.

* Cowen and Company Technology Media & Telecom Conference on May 28 in New York
* Bank of America and Merrill Lynch U.S. Technology Conference on June 3 in New York

Live webcasts and replays of the presentations will be available. Interested parties can view the webcasts and the replays over the Internet through Blue Coat’s Investor Relations Webb site at: http://www.bluecoat.com/company/investorrelations.

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Blue Coat to Demonstrate Application Delivery Network Infrastructure at Interop LV

Real-time Demonstrations of Visibility, Acceleration and Security Technologies Showcase Benefits of Application Delivery Networking

SUNNYVALE, Calif. May 13, 2009 – Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCSI), the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that it will demonstrate the Blue Coat Application Delivery Network Infrastructure in booth #826 at Interop Las Vegas, May 19-21, 2009. It will provide real-time demonstrations to highlight how enterprises can utilize Blue Coat visibility, acceleration and security technologies to align IT investments with business requirements.

* On Tuesday, May 19, Blue Coat Senior Director of Product Marketing Mark Urban will highlight the unique WAN optimization, Web security and control features provided by Blue Coat® ProxySG® appliances to accelerate and secure application delivery during a moderated session that will compare WAN optimization controllers. Jim Metzler, vice president of Ashton, Metzler & Associates, will moderate the session, “A Comparison of WAN Optimization Controllers,” which begins at 11:30 a.m.
* On Wednesday, May 20, Mr. Urban will explore technologies that provide application-level visibility and control to improve application delivery and increase business process efficiency. The session, “The Currency of Business: Improving Application Delivery to Get the Most Out of Your Existing Network,” begins at 3:15 p.m.
* On Thursday, May 21, Jeff Barker, vice president of solutions and technical marketing at Blue Coat, will highlight the critical role that visibility plays in the delivery of applications during a panel discussion titled, “The Future of Application Delivery.” He will also explore how application delivery canevolve to meet new business requirements and realities. The session begins at 11:30 a.m.

In its booth #826, Blue Coat will demonstrate how the Blue Coat Application Delivery Network infrastructure can secure and optimize the delivery of applications across a distributed enterprise. Through real-time demonstrations, Blue Coat will also highlight the critical role that bandwidth management plays in establishing and maintaining high quality video conferencing sessions that enhance business productivity and serve as an efficient alternative to in-person meetings.

Blue Coat will also host Technology Integration Partners Lancope and Kaspersky in its booth to demonstrate how its technologies work with third party solutions to extend the Application Delivery Network infrastructure. The Lancope StealthWatch System enhances the application intelligence provided by Blue Coat® PacketShaper® appliances with behavioral analysis to further improve end user experience and business processes. The Blue Coat and Kaspersky solutions work in tandem to protect customers from evolving Web-based malware, spyware and other malicious content.


The Blue Coat Application Delivery Network Infrastructure combines application monitoring, WAN optimization and Secure Web Gateway technologies to provide unmatched intelligence about the applications and Web content running across a distributed enterprise network.

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Blue Coat Enhances Reporter to Provide Role-based Visibility into Web Activity

Reporting Platform Provides Customizable Dashboard for Interactive Role-based View into Web Activity


SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 11, 2009 – Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCSI), the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced immediate availability of Blue Coat Reporter 9.1 to provide enterprises with customizable role-based visibility into Web-related user activity. Reporter is a flexible role-based intuitive reporting tool that enables businesses to collect, correlate and analyze Web activity that is managed and logged by Blue Coat® ProxySG® and ProxyAV™ appliances, Blue Coat WebFilter and Blue Coat ProxyClient® mobile software.

To provide real-time visibility into Web-related user activity, Reporter can be configured to continuously upload logs. Reporter highlights Web activity information through a combination of common, pre-defined reports as well as easily customizable reports that enable administrators to view captured user behavior, security and operational information. With these reports, businesses can track malware and other spyware, traffic profiles, sessions, users and authentication, Web content and technical profiles.

“As business has come to rely upon the Web, understanding where and how people are using the Internet is critical to ensuring policy compliance and effective use of corporate resources,” said Carrie Oakes, vice president of product management at Blue Coat Systems. “With real-time visibility into Web-related user activity and flexible, customized reports, the Reporter platform is a powerful tool that helps enterprises understand Web usage patterns and more tightly align network investments with business requirements.”

Role-Based Reports Enable Multiple Views into Web Activity
Reporter enables network, security and human resources administrators to create customizable dashboards that provide at-a-glance, role-based overviews of user activity while its intuitive drilldown navigation simplifies access to deeper details, such as Web usage patterns by access attempts, access by category or time, blocked sites or many other metrics. Up to 50 concurrent administrators can utilize Reporter simultaneously, with each dashboard instance providing a unique view of usage behavior, security and operations. All administrators are authenticated through the local network directory service, simplifying the process of generating reports, analyzing potential security risks and policy violations and understanding employee use activities.

Customizable Dashboard Provides Fast and Easy Access to Relevant Information
The flexibility of the Reporter platform provides enterprise administrators with multiple views into Web activity and the ability to customize dashboards for fast and easy access to the information that is most relevant to their areas of responsibility. This customizable dashboard speeds the decision making process by providing an at-a-glance view of relevant information.

With Reporter, security administrators can evaluate risks and track potentially dangerous activity to quickly identify users that have been infected with malicious content and spyware. Network administrators can track user and enterprise Web activity on a per-user or geographical basis to better understand the organization’s networking habits and needs. For a human resources administrator, Reporter can track where and when users are going to the Internet.

A Use Case: Request for More Bandwidth to Improve Application Performance
For example, with the Blue Coat Reporter platform, a network manager that is receiving complaints about slow application performance could quickly and easily gather the information to determine if there is need for additional bandwidth. By generating a report on Web usage by category, the IT manager could see which categories dominate Web activity. If, for instance, streaming media leads Web activity in any given time period, the IT manager could simply update corporate IT use policies to block or limit that traffic and enforce those with the Blue Coat ProxySG appliance rather than purchasing incremental bandwidth.

If the Web usage by category report is consistently run to determine how traffic types are impacting application performance, the network manager can easily customize the dashboard to make that information immediately available upon login. With this immediate visibility into Web activity, the network manager can proactively preempt performance issues before they impact network users.

For Reporter video use cases for IT and Operations professionals, click here. To see video use cases for HR professionals, click here.

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Blue Coat Expands Investment in WebPulse Cloud-based Community Watch Service

New Hong Kong Data Center Increases Visibility and Protection for Blue Coat Customers

SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 5, 2009– Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCSI), the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that it has expanded its investment in the Blue Coat® WebPulse™ cloud service with a new data center in Hong Kong to increase performance for regional customers while increasing the visibility and protection benefits for the more than 54 million users in the global community. With the new data center, Blue Coat WebFilter, ProxyClient® and K9® Web Protection customers automatically benefit from a more robust and distributed global network that now encompasses eight data and content rating centers.

The Blue Coat WebPulse cloud service utilizes Dynamic Link Analysis to identify and assess Web 2.0 threats that rely upon dynamic links to spread malicious content. The WebPulse service receives real-time intelligence on new sites, URLs and dynamic Web 2.0 content and links from a broad, diverse and expanding user community. To identify malware, phishing, and other malicious or inappropriate content within these links, the WebPulse service conducts extensive threat assessments using multiple deep-analysis techniques. Results are immediately available to all users in the community through the WebPulse cloud service without requiring downloads or other update cycles.

“To ensure a proactive defense against Web-based malware that exploits the Internet, businesses need to rethink how they secure their Web gateway,” said Mikko Valimaki, chief scientist at Blue Coat Systems. “With real-time input, cloud-based content analysis and immediate protection, our WebPulse service provides businesses with a URL filtering solution for a Web 2.0 world.”

The Blue Coat WebPulse service is the first cloud-based community watch environment to implement Dynamic Link Analysis and today receives more than one billion requests per week from more than 54 million users around the world. The service builds a comprehensive profile of the Web as users encounter dynamic new sites and user-generated content. The changing nature of these sites and content is exploited by cybercriminals to propagate malware, phishing and other malicious content. Traditional database-oriented URL filtering cannot keep pace with today’s rapidly evolving threats. With Dynamic Link Analysis, the Blue Coat WebPulse service provides the second generation of URL filtering to dynamically assess new content for threats and ensure proactive defense.

Blue Coat WebFilter customers are automatically protected by the WebPulse service through ProxyClient for remote and mobile workers and can enable the service through ProxySG with a one-click option. Protection by the WebPulse service is also a built-in feature of Blue Coat K9 Web Protection for consumers.

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