Blue Coat secures Web communications and accelerates business applications across the distributed enterprise. Blue Coat's family of appliances and client-based solutions provide intelligent points of policy-based control enabling IT organisations to optimise security and accelerate performance between users and applications.
Blue Coat acquired Packeteer in June 2008, an industry pioneer in delivering sophisticated WAN traffic prioritisation technologies, including application classification and performance management.
The acquisition of Packeteer extends Blue Coat's market leadership and enables it to provide an even more comprehensive WAN Application Delivery solution to a large and loyal customer base. Blue Coat has an additional 10,000 customers worldwide, as well as 50 additional sales teams and over 1,400 new channel partners. The acquisition also adds the highly regarded PacketShaper® product and technologies to the Blue Coat product portfolio. This product offers industry leading application classification and traffic shaping capabilities enabling users to have greater visibility and control of network traffic. By combining PacketShaper functionality with its award winning ProxySG® appliance, Blue Coat will provide customers with the ability to see traffic on their networks and pro-actively accelerate, prioritise, limit or block it.
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With Blue Coat, you don’t have to choose between security and performance.
Drive application performance and security for any user, anywhere across a distributed enterprise. Only Blue Coat — the world’s largest provider of WAN application delivery solutions — offers a proxy architecture that can accelerate business processes while reducing security and compliance risks.
Blue Coat serves more than 6000 worldwide customers, including 93 of the Fortune Global 100, with support centres in Sunnyvale, London, Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur and Sao Paulo. By enabling our customers to see, secure, accelerate and control their network applications, we help:
- Boost corporate and branch office productivity
- Mitigate security and compliance threats
- Provide a headquarters work experience anywhere
- Reduce IT infrastructure and management costs
- Improve backup and recovery operations and server consolidation