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- Live Webcast: Meet Enterprise Application Demands on a Tight Budget
- Even in a challenging business environment, your business still needs to deliver secure, highly available applications across its global WAN from corporate headquarters to branch offices and mobile workers. Managed service providers can help by letting your business reduce costs and simplify complexity. Learn from the analysts at IDC how...
- Tags: Managed Services, Webcast, Enterprise Application, Blue Coat Systems Inc., WANs, Managed Hosting, Network Technology, It Services, Networking
- Webcasts 2009-07-02
- Trimming Costs, Optimizing WAN Performance & Strategic Application Delivery
- There is a strong focus on cost containment in the IT environment, even as new demands are created on a distributed WAN environment - now and with future initiatives. While data consolidation and email drive increasing bandwidth demand and user performance issues, the imperative to fix performance problems with Web...
- Tags: Performance, Optimization, Blue Coat Systems Inc., WANs, Network Technology, Performance Management, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Webcasts 2009-04-08
- K9 Web Protection 4.0.288 (Mac)
- K9 Web Protection is easy-to-use Parental Control and Internet filtering software that helps parents protect their children online. K9 Web Protection has the ability to block adult, porn and other offensive content, prevent spyware infections, and monitor visited sites on any Internet access connection (AOL, MSN, Yahoo, Earthlink). Based on...
- Tags: Web, Apple Macintosh, Blue Coat Systems Inc., K9 Web Protection, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Channel Management, Viruses And Worms, Security, Marketing
- Software downloads 2009-03-02
- K9 Web Protection 4.0.288 (Windows)
- K9 Web Protection is easy-to-use Parental Control and Internet filtering software that helps parents protect their children online. K9 Web Protection has the ability to block adult, porn and other offensive content, prevent spyware infections, and monitor visited sites on any Internet access connection (AOL, MSN, Yahoo, Earthlink). Based on...
- Tags: Web, Microsoft Windows, Blue Coat Systems Inc., K9 Web Protection, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Channel Management, Viruses And Worms, Security, Marketing
- Software downloads 2009-02-25
- BlueCoat: Creating an economic advantage for users in 2009?
- BlueCoat: Creating an economic advantage for users in 2009?No $ Advantage In Un-needed BundlingThis analysis presages that IT customers want all the features in Proxy SG. While some might - many already have the tools in net to deal with the issues Proxy SG targets. Therefore, having WAN op and...
- Tags: WANs, PRODUCTIVITY, Network technology, NETWORKING, PacketShaper, Proxy SG, economic advantage
- Discussion threads 2009-02-10
- Webcast: Visibility: The Key to Maximizing Network Resources
- As enterprises look to increase business efficiency, IT managers are increasingly asked to maximize network ROI and align the infrastructure with business processes and goals. However, to effectively accomplish this, IT managers need to understand the traffic and applications. Without visibility, it is virtually impossible to optimize the...
- Tags: Webcast, Performance, Network, IT Manager, Blue Coat Systems Inc., Performance Management, Roi/Tco, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- Webcasts 2009-01-29
- Blue Coat Application Delivery Network Infrastructure
- The Blue Coat Application Delivery Network infrastructure can help you resolve your toughest IT challenges. The ADN is a fundamental IT layer that answers the demand for greater application mobility and security in a changing global business environment. The Corporate and Solutions overview provides information on Blue...
- Tags: Network Infrastructure, Network, Blue Coat Systems Inc., ADN, Network Administration, Networking
- White papers 2008-12-01
- Blue Coat SGOS Proxy Edition
- The Blue Coat ProxySG family of appliances is part of the Application Delivery Network, an infrastructure that provides complete application visibility, acceleration and security. To support the ADN, ProxySG delivers a scalable proxy platform architecture to secure Web communications and accelerate the delivery of business applications. ...
- Tags: Blue Coat Systems Inc., Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software
- White papers 2008-12-01
- Application Delivery Networks: The New Imperative for IT Visibility, Acceleration and Security
- Your business depends on one thing: getting the right information to the right people at the right time. To gain a competitive advantage, improve customer service and access more business intelligence, you have to ensure fast and responsive application delivery to users wherever they are. At the same time, you...
- Tags: Security, On-demand Application, Network, Information Technology, Business, Blue Coat Systems Inc., Strategy, Server Consolidation, Globalization, Management, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2008-09-19
- Web Gateway Strategies for Government: Moving Beyond the TIC Deadline
- What are government agencies, like yours, doing to meet the Trusted Internet Connections TIC deadline and establish a strategic Internet gateway architecture to meet future security, regulatory and application demands? Listen to this podcast to learn how Blue Coat customers like the Department of Homeland Security's US Customs & Border...
- Tags: Strategy, Web, Gateway Inc., Blue Coat Systems Inc., Podcasts, Government, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing
- Download resources 2008-07-22
- Hidden Dangers in the Mobile Worker Jungle: Provide Fast and Secure Access for Remote Workers
- It is a jungle out there, particularly now that millions of workers work remotely, placing new demands on their IT infrastructure and often unknowingly threatening their company's security every day. Recent studies indicate that within three years, there will be over one billion mobile workers worldwide, so the problems...
- Tags: Microsoft Access, Mobile, Worker, Blue Coat Systems Inc., Remote Access
- White papers 2008-05-12
- Airmiles Deploys Bluecoat for Secure Internet Access
- Airmiles has been the UK's most popular travel loyalty scheme since 1988 and employs 550 people across 3 sites in the UK, linked via an MPLS Wide Area Network. The company wanted to replace old ISA servers with a more efficient, effective, secure solution and accelerate key applications and stop...
- Tags: Internet Access, U.K., Blue Coat Systems Inc., Teneo, Airmiles, Viruses And Worms, Security
- Case studies 2008-03-26
- How to Boost Network Performance and Security - Simultaneously!
- As more rich Internet applications RIAs migrate to the enterprise, it's vitally important that network engineers and security architects work together to optimize application performance and security. This is particularly true for a highly distributed user community where multiple points of access mean that network reliability and security cannot...
- Tags: Network, Application Performance, Blue Coat Systems Inc., Networking, Security
- Webcasts 2008-02-26
- The Case and Criteria for Combining Application Acceleration and Security
- At first glance, it may seem that the network engineer and the security architect have little in common. However, as more rich internet applications migrate to the enterprise, more load is placed on the network and more collaborative power is given to the user - exposing the network infrastructure...
- Tags: Network, Application Performance, Blue Coat Systems Inc., Networking, Security
- White papers 2008-02-01
- WAN Optimization for Government: Accelerating the Distributed Network
- Listen to this podcast and learn more about the situation the Air National Guard ANG was facing with its network, which connects more than 200 locations in 54 states and territories. Instead of increasing bandwidth, the proper solution turned out to be the Blue Coat ProxySG. Enforcement and acceleration go...
- Tags: Optimization, Network, Distributed Network, Blue Coat Systems Inc., Podcasts, Government, WANs, Networking, Internet
- Download resources 2008-01-29
- Top 5 Reasons Why Application Performance and Network Security Go Together
- Don't settle for less than a complete solution. Read these reasons why pairing application performance and network security is a natural in today's technology architectures. Today's IT organizations need to provide seamless, secure access to applications, a consistent user experience, high-performance and availability for users everywhere at the...
- Tags: Performance, Network, Blue Coat Systems Inc., Network Security, Networking, Security
- White papers 2008-01-15
- Open, Manage and Accelerate SSL Encrypted Applications
- With the webification of applications comes a need for privacy and security. SSL is a favorite encryption standard, but what about visibility, control and acceleration of the applications it hides? Read this paper to get answers to these and other questions.
- Tags: SSL, Blue Coat Systems Inc., Ssl/Tls, Authentication/Encryption, Network Security, Security, Networking
- White papers 2007-10-30
- Gartner Report: Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateway, 2007
- Interested in what analyst firm Gartner has to say about Blue Coat Secure Web Gateway solutions? Read its "Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateway, 2007" report to find out. Download the report to see how Blue Coat stacks up against the competition on the two...
- Tags: Web, Quadrant, Gartner Inc., Blue Coat Systems Inc., Strategy, Security, Management
- White papers 2007-06-04
- WAN Application Performance: Survey Results & Trend Analysis
- This Blue Coat white paper highlights the findings of a December 2006 survey of over 1,300 IT executives. The purpose of the survey was to identify current computing trends and their impact on application performance over corporate WANs. The key trends that CIOs and other IT leaders reported as impacting...
- Tags: Performance, Survey, Analysis, Blue Coat Systems Inc., WANs, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2007-02-16
- Next Generation WAN Optimization
- Users are everywhere. Applications are everywhere, except where the users are. The WAN connects them, but long latency breaks applications and an over-consumption of bandwidth creates a further bottleneck. WAN Optimization can help, bringing LAN like experiences to remote and roaming users. But not all WAN Optimization appliances are alike....
- Tags: Optimization, Blue Coat Systems Inc., WANs, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2007-02-01
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