Bangkok--11 Jan--PC & Associates Consulting
Blue Coat? Systems (Nasdaq: BCSI), the leader in secure content and application delivery, today announced that Avocent? Corporation (Nasdaq: AVCT), a leading provider of IT infrastructure management solutions for enterprise data centers, small/medium businesses and branch offices, has selected Blue Coat SG appliances to accelerate applications across its Wide Area Network (WAN) and provide security and control of Web content and applications for branch offices.
The Avocent deployment reflects a growing trend towards local Internet access for remote sites around the world, requiring the branch office to address both application acceleration and Web security.
Like many organizations, Avocent has consolidated its servers and applications in a centralized data center, creating significant challenges for application response time in branch offices. Blue Coat SG appliances with MACH5 application acceleration technology apply multiple techniques to reduce latency and bandwidth use for distributed applications, including internally hosted or outsourced applications utilizing SSL encrypted communications
Branch Offices Are “Direct to the ‘Net”
Avocent provides direct Internet access to its branch offices and no longer backhauls Internet traffic across the WAN to its corporate headquarters. Backhauling Internet traffic would require twice the current MPLS bandwidth at the corporate headquarters.
Now with direct Internet connections at each branch office, the company needs to secure and control local Web activity, protect against malware, enforce corporate policies and legal requirements and manage network resources. The same Blue Coat SG appliances provide an integrated platform for acceleration, security and policy control.
Originally, Avocent had two separate evaluations—one for branch office Web security and the other for application acceleration. Only Blue Coat provided a solution to combine both in a single appliance with integrated policy and management.
Combining Acceleration and Web Security
“With our model of consolidated enterprise applications and decentralized Internet access, we needed to find a solution that would both accelerate business-critical applications and provide centrally managed web protection and control at each branch office,” said Dan Tice, director of global information technology for Avocent. “Blue Coat appliances enable us to accelerate applications in branch offices while also providing the security and control we require there.”
The MACH5 patent-pending framework of acceleration technologies is designed to accelerate all key enterprise applications, including: Web and secure Web applications (SSL), file services, email/Microsoft Exchange and live streaming or on-demand video. Since the MACH5 technology is integrated with the Blue Coat platform, it enables organizations to manage all of their user/application interactions—to stop undesirable applications, throttle less important applications and accelerate critical applications, even when encrypted within SSL.
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 30,000 appliances worldwide and is ranked #1 by IDC in the Secure Content and Application Delivery market. Blue Coat is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and can be reached at (408) 220-2200 or www.bluecoat.com .
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