Blue Coat Leads Content Security Gateway Appliance Market for Fourteenth Consecutive Quarter

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:BCSI), the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that it has led the content security gateway appliance market for 14 consecutive quarters, according to the most recent market share report from Infonetics Research. Blue Coat has led the market for every quarter since Infonetics began tracking content security gateway appliances in 2007.

“By combining appliances with a cloud-based defense, the Blue Coat solution gives organizations the protection they require in this new threat landscape, and the Infonetics market share report clearly reflects the value enterprises find in this approach.”

“The rapidity with which Web-based threats emerge and evolve requires a new kind of intelligent defense that can quickly respond to protect employees worldwide, including those working remotely,” said Carrie Oakes, vice president of product marketing and management, Blue Coat Systems. “By combining appliances with a cloud-based defense, the Blue Coat solution gives organizations the protection they require in this new threat landscape, and the Infonetics market share report clearly reflects the value enterprises find in this approach.”

The Blue Coat Secure Web Gateway solution delivers on-demand security intelligence through a hybrid architecture that combines presence at the corporate Web gateway with a collaborative cloud-based defense to protect employees worldwide. By uniting 62 million users in the Blue Coat^® WebPulse™ service, the Blue Coat solution delivers industry-leading Web awareness and extensible defenses that provide seamless protection for customers without the need for patches or updates. This collaborative defense enables businesses to consistently enforce corporate IT policies worldwide and to prevent Web-based malware and malicious content from compromising application security or performance.

Infonetics forecasts that the content security gateway appliance market will grow 40 percent from $1.5 billion in 2010, to $2.3 billion in 2014.

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

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