Value Proposition
Application Delivery Network infrastructure addresses demand for greater application mobility and security in a distributed enterprise. Three core capabilities: application performance monitoring, WAN optimization and secure Web gateway technologies

Year Founded
1996

CEO
Brian NeSmith, President

Customers
More than 15,000 customers worldwide

Includes 81% of the Fortune® Global 500

Eight of the ten largest service providers in the world, 96 of the 100 largest companies in the world

Large government organizations, defense and civilian agencies and research and education institutions

Revenue
$444,745,000 for fiscal year ended April 2009

Consistent quarter over quarter growth

Increased market share from 25.1 percent to 30 percent in the first calendar quarter of 2009
Headquarters
Sunnyvale, California
Support centers in Sunnyvale, London, Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur, Waterloo and Dubai

Ownership
Publicly traded (NASDAQ: BCSI)

Employees
1,250 employees and 2,800 partners worldwide

Service and Support
Blue Coat BlueTouch program of consulting services and on-the-ground support

Industry Recognition
Leader Position, Gartner’s Magic Quadrant, WAN Optimization Controllers 2008

Leader’s Quadrant of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateway 2008

Ranked market leader in WAN Optimization- Infonetics Research and Gartner - Q3 2008

Ranked market leader of Content Security Gateway Appliances- Infonetics 2008

Ranked market leader in WAN Optimization; Infonetics Research – Q2 2009

Environmental Initiatives

Blue Planet implements key technologies to reduce company’s carbon footprint

Designs and builds technology that enables enterprises to more efficiently utilize existing network resources
Blue Coat
Products
ProxySG® appliances – Application acceleration, control and visibility at internet gateways and remote or branch offices

PacketShaper® appliances – Understanding and monitoring application performance, providing the ability to maintain application SLAs, fine-grained bandwidth management

ProxyClient® software – WAN optimization and Web security for mobile and remote workers

WebFilter™ software – Web categorization and identification of malware sources

WebPulse service - the real-time cloud computing security service that extends its Blue Coat WebFilter product

ProxyAV appliances – Detect malware and malicious code at the Web gateway without slowing traffic

Blue Coat holds more than 175 patents issued and pending

Five R&D centers around the world

 

 


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