Ninety-Six of the 100 Largest Companies Worldwide Rely on Blue Coat
to Secure the Internet Gateway and Enforce Policies while Accelerating
Application Performance
Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:BCSI), the leader in WAN Application
Delivery and Secure Web Gateway, today announced that 81 percent of
FORTUNE Global 500 companies are securing and accelerating their
Internet connections and Wide Area Networks (WAN) with Blue Coat®
ProxySG® appliances,
according to the 2008 ranking by FORTUNE. In the U.S., 67 percent
of Fortune 500 companies rely on Blue Coat appliances.
Based on the latest FORTUNE Global 500 and FORTUNE 500 lists, Blue Coat
customers include the following:
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81 percent of the Fortune Global 500
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96 of the 100 largest companies in the world
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67 percent of the Fortune 500
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The 10 largest companies in the U.S.
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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.
