CORPORATE OVERVIEW

Blue Coat Systems, Inc., founded in 1996, (NASDAQ: BCSI) is a publicly-held company based in Sunnyvale, California. 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 for all users and applications. Blue Coat has installed more than 30,000 appliances worldwide and is ranked #1 by IDC in the Secure Content and Application Delivery market.

MARKET REQUIREMENTS

Today’s enterprise often has no clear boundaries. Employees are distributed across various branch offices and are typically connected via the corporate WAN, but remote/mobile Internet access is also a necessity. In addition, customers, partners, and suppliers can all leverage the Internet for authorized, “on-demand” access to the enterprise – regardless of their physical location.

Within this “boundaryless” enterprise (or any type distributed organization), applications are hosted in the main corporate data center(s) or, increasingly, applications are hosted by 3rd party organizations outside the company.

Collectively, this creates three distinct challenges for IT organizations:

• Security – IT must make the Web safe for business, blocking Internet security threats and inappropriate content, while granting authorized users access to necessary applications and content.
• Performance – IT must strive to optimize performance of critical business applications – such as e-mail, file systems, multimedia applications, and Web applications (including encrypted SSL applications) being delivered to remote users in branch offices, as well as mobile users.
• Control – To address the requirements above, IT must have granular visibility and policy-based control capabilities to ensure that the business is providing superior security and performance for all users and critical applications.

Product Manager :Teemu Suuronen