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"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 is also positioned by Gartner in the Leaders quadrant of the "Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateway, 2008"(2). To read this report, click here.
WAN optimization, along with application performance monitoring and Web security, is a critical component of the Blue Coat Application Delivery Network infrastructure. Anchored by Blue Coat ProxySG and PacketShaper appliances, the Application Delivery Network infrastructure integrates these visibility, acceleration and security technologies to optimize and secure business applications.
Blue Coat has more than 15,000 customers in more than 150 countries worldwide. Today, 81 percent of the Fortune Global 500 and the 10 largest enterprises in the U.S. have deployed Blue Coat ProxySG appliances in their networks.
About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrants are copyrighted 2009 by Gartner, Inc. and are reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The intention of the Magic Quadrant is solely as a research tool. Readers should not consider it as a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
About Blue Coat Systems
Blue Coat Systems is the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking. Blue Coat offers an Application Delivery Network Infrastructure that provides the visibility, acceleration and security required to optimize and secure the flow of information to any user, on any network, anywhere. This application intelligence enables enterprises to tightly align network investments with business requirements, speed decision making and secure business applications for long-term competitive advantage. For additional information, please visit www.bluecoat.com.
1. Gartner, Inc., "Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers, 2009" by Andy Rolfe and Joe Skorupa, June 30, 2009.
2. Gartner, Inc., "Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateway, 2008" by Peter Firstbrook and Lawrence Orans, September 11, 2008
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