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Based on the latest FORTUNE Global 500 and FORTUNE 500 lists, Blue Coat customers include the following:
-- 81 percent of the Fortune Global 500
-- 96 of the 100 largest companies in the world
-- 67 percent of the Fortune 500
-- The 10 largest companies in the U.S.
-- 49 of the 50 largest companies in the U.S.
Blue Coat solutions provide visibility, security and control of content and applications across enterprise Internet gateways and over the WAN to branch offices while accelerating business-critical traffic and reducing bandwidth consumption. The combined ability to secure and accelerate traffic enables some of the world's largest organizations to solve application performance issues and consolidate infrastructure for streamlined management and a lower total cost of ownership.
From its recent acquisition of Packeteer, Blue Coat added 28 customers that are on the FORTUNE Global 500. The acquisition also brought 58 additional FORTUNE 500 customers to Blue Coat, including three in the top 100.
"As the network becomes increasingly strategic to the enterprise, optimized branch office connections and secure Internet gateways are crucial to overall efficiency and productivity of the business," said Bethany Mayer, senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing at Blue Coat Systems. "The 10 largest enterprises in the U.S. look to Blue Coat for the scalable tools that protect, accelerate and control traffic on the network, a strong validation of the value we bring our customers."
Blue Coat enables enterprises, including some of the world's largest financial institutions, government agencies, manufacturers, general merchandisers and energy companies, to optimize their application performance without compromising control. Worldwide, Blue Coat has more than 15,000 customers in more than 150 countries.
Blue Coat ProxySG appliances establish points of control that accelerate and secure content and business applications from the Internet gateway to branch offices and remote employees. Combining both security and acceleration technologies in a single, scalable device enables IT managers to effectively align and enforce policies with corporate priorities without compromising application performance.
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.
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS: The statements contained in this press release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements, including statements regarding Blue Coat Systems' expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future, and including statements regarding the capabilities and expected performance of Blue Coat Systems' products. All forward-looking statements included in this press release are based upon information available to Blue Coat Systems as of the date hereof, and Blue Coat Systems assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. These and other risks relating to Blue Coat Systems' business are set forth in Blue Coat Systems' Form 10-K for the year ended April 30, 2008, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Blue Coat, ProxySG and the Blue Coat logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Blue Coat Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the United States and certain other countries. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners.
SOURCE: Blue Coat Systems, Inc.
Blue Coat Systems Steve Schick, 408-220-2076 (Media) steve.schick@bluecoat.com Daniel Levy, 408-220-2318 (Investors) daniel.levy@bluecoat.com or Merritt Group (for Blue Coat Systems) Ben Merritt, 703-926-0290 (Media) merritt@merrittgrp.com
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