Blue Coat Web Security

Blue Coat provides a family of intelligent appliances that give IT organizations the ability to effectively:

• Accelerate delivery of business applications
• Secure Web communications.

Blue Coat provides visibility and very granular control over performance and security. Policies can be set based on who, what, where, when and how users and applications communicate with each other. All of this functionality is complemented by powerful management and reporting tools. JDL assists Blue Coat as an integration partner by deploying and configuring a solution that is fit to the business or education enterprise.

Application Acceleration: The Network Value Equation
To quantify the discussion between IT and senior management about the value of IT Ashton, Metzler & Associates recently asked approximately 200 IT professionals to identify where their company’s business and functional management saw value from the IT function. The response to that question was quite dramatic and underscores the need for IT organizations to be able to relate the value of the IT infrastructure to the company’s key applications.
Source: Ashton, Metzler & Associates

To ensure appropriate application performance, IT organizations have begun to deploy network and application functions that accomplish one or more of the following tasks:

• Reduce the amount of data that is sent over the WAN

• Prioritize traffic that is business critical and delay sensitive

• Ensure that the WAN link is never idle if there is data to send

• Reduce the number of round trips or application turns that are necessary for a given transaction

• Offload intensive computational tasks from client systems and servers.

Secure Web Gateway and Protect Enterprise Resources
To successfully support the emerging application delivery model, IT organizations must ensure both application performance demanded by top management and WAN security to provide:

• The appropriate performance of applications as seen by remote workers

• That viruses, worms, Trojans and spyware are not allowed onto the branch or remote office networks

• That employees are not making inappropriate use of the Internet.

Blue Coat is #1 in Both Secure Content and Application Delivery Functionality
Blue Coat secures Web communications and accelerates business applications across the distributed enterprise. Blue Coat’s family of appliances and client-based solutions – deployed in branch offices, Internet gateways, end points and data centers – provide intelligent points of policy-based control enabling IT organizations to optimize security and accelerate performance for all users and applications. Blue Coat has installed more than 8,000 customers worldwide and is ranked #1 by IDC in the Secure Content and Application Delivery. Blue Coat is positioned in the Leader’s Quadrant of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant and Strong Performer position in Forrester’s review of security performers.

Product Example
The Blue Coat ProxySG 210 provides an affordable appliance solution for remote offices where direct Internet access requires accelerated performance of business applications and granular control of web communications. At the edge of an organization’s application delivery infrastructure, the ProxySG 210 provides controlled acceleration of business applications across the globally-distributed enterprise.

Leveraging Blue Coat’s MACH5 technology, users located at remote locations enjoy the same LAN-like performance and user experience as those located at headquarters or the data center. The ProxySG 210 platform also provides effective control of the enterprise’s Internet traffic, including gateway protection from web-based threats such as spyware, malicious mobile cod and phishing attacks.

JDL is a Blue Coat Premier Partner

Adapted from web and white paper content published by Blue Coat.