Surgient Selects Blue Coat Appliances to Accelerate Access to Virtualized Environments Between Continents
Blue Coat ProxySG Appliances Speed Distribution of Massive Virtual Machine Images Across WAN While Decreasing Bandwidth Consumption by Four Hundred Times
SUNNYVALE, Calif., January 21, 2008 - Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BCSI), the leader in WAN Application Delivery and Secure Web Gateway, today announced that Surgient, the leader in Virtual Lab Management Applications for software testing, training and evaluation, has deployed Blue Coat® ProxySG® appliances for accelerating web and customer content traffic between its data centers in North America, Europe, and Australia across its Wide Area Network (WAN).
"Providing access to on-demand virtual lab environments to users located around the globe requires us to cache, accelerate, and control critical customer content and traffic as much as possible," said Tim Tyndall, Principal Systems Engineer, Surgient. "Blue Coat ProxySG appliances have made a significant difference in speeding up the transfer of that traffic and the amount of bandwidth required to move it. The result is an increased performance of our software platform across a WAN and major reduction in our bandwidth costs."
In addition to accelerating virtual lab traffic across the WAN, Blue Coat ProxySG appliances along with the SG client are used to transfer virtual machine images from off-site customer locations to Surgient Data Centers via the Internet. The virtual machine images, often in excess of 10 gigabytes, now transfer with a reduction of up to 400% bandwidth and at rates three to four times faster over the Internet. Blue Coat SG appliances also provide Web security and policy control for Surgient's Internet access.
"Our deployment at Surgient offers a dramatic example of the power of Blue Coat WAN Application Delivery to add significant business value through accelerating applications and reducing bandwidth consumption," said Kevin Biggs, senior vice president, worldwide sales, Blue Coat Systems. "In addition, we provide WAN optimization together with Web security and policy control for a complete solution to reclaim the WAN and Internet gateway for business productivity."
About Surgient
Surgient puts virtualization technology to work for the world's largest companies. The first company to provide on-demand applications that automate the deployment, configuration and teardown of complex enterprise software environments or "virtual labs," Surgient's award-winning virtual lab management solutions enable end users to rapidly provision computing resources for business-critical initiatives such as software QA/test, training, sales and marketing. Over 1,000,000 applications have been delivered to-date through Surgient virtual labs, enabling companies such as Business Objects, BMC, CA, EMC, Dell, HP, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft and Target Corporation to dramatically accelerate software delivery, reduce operating costs, increase productivity and enable IT to better align with business priorities. Surgient partners with leading technology companies including VMware, Microsoft, HP, PlateSpin, Saba/Centra, ViewCentral and WebEx Communications. Surgient is a private, venture-backed company based in Austin , Texas . For more information, visit www.surgient.com.
About Blue Coat Systems
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 between users and applications. Blue Coat has installed more than 40,000 appliances worldwide. Blue Coat is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and can be reached at (408) 220-2200 or www.bluecoat.com.
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS: The statements contained in this press release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements, including statements regarding Blue Coat Systems’ expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future, and including statements regarding the capabilities and expected performance of Blue Coat Systems’ products. All forward-looking statements included in this press release are based upon information available to Blue Coat Systems as of the date hereof, and Blue Coat Systems assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. These and other risks relating to Blue Coat Systems’ business are set forth in Blue Coat Systems’ Form 10-K for the year ended April 30, 2007, and Form 10-Q filed for the quarter ended October 31, 2007 with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
