Blue Coat Rises to Number One in Market Share for WAN Optimization Solutions
Quarterly Report from Leading Research Firm Also Shows
Fastest Quarterly Growth in Worldwide Market Share
Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCSI), the leader in WAN optimization and Secure Web Gateway, today announced that it is ranked as the leader of the WAN optimization equipment market according to a new report from Gartner, Inc., the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company. The report, “Market Share: Application Acceleration Equipment, Worldwide, 3Q08,”1 ranks Blue Coat with the leading share of market during the third calendar quarter of 2008. Blue Coat’s market share grew by nearly 19 percent over the prior quarter, making it the fastest growing WAN optimization vendor during the quarter. The worldwide WAN optimization market grew nearly four percent from the previous quarter.
“Blue Coat provides a unique, comprehensive approach to WAN optimization, combining application visibility, acceleration and security together in a way that increasingly appeals to distributed enterprises,” said William Tan, Country Manager, Thailand and Vietnam, Blue Coat Systems. “The WAN optimization market is no longer about simply accelerating files or applying indiscriminate acceleration techniques to branch office traffic. Companies must now accelerate business-critical applications and manage and distribute corporate video while stopping malware and mitigating the impact of non-business applications.”
Blue Coat ProxySG and PacketShaper appliances enable visibility and control over what passes across the WAN and through the Internet gateway. Enterprises can accelerate important applications to branch offices using the optimization technologies built into the appliances, including protocol optimization, compression, bandwidth management, object caching and byte caching.
In addition , the appliances enable organizations to meter the use of recreational and non-business applications, such as streaming media and movie downloads while also providing protection from malicious content and applications.
Companies can use the same appliances to secure and control branch offices that have direct Internet access and apply consistent policies across the distributed enterprise. In addition, the same ProxySG appliances serve as the means to efficiently deliver live or on-demand corporate video to branch offices through use of stream-splitting, pre-positioning of content and local caching.
1. Gartner, Inc., “Market Share: Application Acceleration Equipment, Worldwide, 3Q08” by Joe Skorupa and Nhat Pham, December 2008.
About Blue Coat Systems
Blue Coat secures Web communications and accelerates business applications across the distributed enterprise. Blue Coat’s family of appliances and client-based solutions – deployed in branch offices, Internet gateways, end points, and data centers – provide intelligent points of policy-based control enabling IT organizations to optimize security and accelerate performance between users and applications. Blue Coat has installed more than 40,000 appliances worldwide. Blue Coat is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and can be reached at (408) 220-2200 or www.bluecoat.com.
About Blue Coat Systems
Blue Coat secures Web communications and accelerates business applications across the distributed enterprise. Blue Coat’s family of appliances and client-based solutions – deployed in branch offices, Internet gateways, end points, and data centers – provide intelligent points of policy-based control enabling IT organizations to optimize security and accelerate performance between users and applications. Blue Coat has installed more than 40,000 appliances worldwide. Blue Coat is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and can be reached at (408) 220-2200 or www.bluecoat.com.
In Thailand, Blue Coat’s key channel partners are M Tech Solution Technology (Thailand) Co, and N Force Security System. Co. Ltd.
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