Oct. 19, 2009 (Business Wire) -- (SharePoint Conference 2009)

Brocade^® (Nasdaq:BRCD) and Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:BCSI) today announced the completion of interoperability testing of their Brocade ServerIron^® and Blue Coat^® ProxySG^® appliances for use with the upcoming release of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. This is the first application delivery technology to be tested for use with SharePoint 2010 and represents a best-in-class solution for secure, efficient remote application access and content management capabilities without straining network resources.

As organizations continue to expand globally and business applications become more network-intensive, greater numbers of enterprise customers will turn to SharePoint 2010 to deliver mission-critical applications to both in-network and distributed end users. Enterprise customers have stringent content management needs—such as access control, compliance reporting, and data security requirements—that are placing greater demands on network resources. The combination of the Brocade ServerIron and Blue Coat Proxy SG appliances provides a scalable path for optimizing application response times, increasing uptime, and enhancing user productivity. Furthermore, this solution is specifically designed to optimize CPU utilization, greatly improving network efficiency.

The Brocade ServerIron and Blue Coat ProxySG appliances extend the functionality of SharePoint 2010 through:

• Unique Transparent Cache Switching and load balancing capabilities to help ensure application scalability and availability
• Intelligent acceleration with caching, compression, and protocol optimization, which can improve the average SharePoint transaction time by over 85 percent
• Local content caching to optimize application response time for improved collaboration across distributed enterprise networks
• SSL acceleration to offload the SharePoint host CPU

“SharePoint 2010 offers powerful collaboration tools that promise to enhance user productivity across the distributed enterprise,” said Dave Asprey, vice president of technology and corporate development, Blue Coat Systems.