Blue Coat Announces Winners from Annual North America Partner Awards
Awards Reflect Channel Excellence and Momentum in Sales, Services and Focus on Combining Security and Application Delivery
SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 12, 2006 -- Blue Coat® Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCSI), the leader in secure content and application delivery, today announced the winners of its annual North America channel partner awards. The “Top Partner” award goes to True North Solutions for its outstanding efforts in serving customers and driving sales opportunities. It is the second year True North has won the honor. The “Most Valuable Partner” award goes to Accuvant for its overall performance and excellence in post-sales and end-user support. The “Rookie of the Year” award, for resellers who have been with Blue Coat for less than 12 months, goes to Braxton-Grant Technologies for its proactive work in reaching customers and speed in gaining technical experience with Blue Coat solutions.
“We are pleased to be able to honor True North Solutions, Accuvant and Braxton-Grant Technologies for their outstanding achievements,” said Cindy Kelly, vice president of channels for Blue Coat Systems. “Our customers are best served through the direct support of our channel partners, and we are constantly working with our channel partners to reach increasingly higher levels of excellence. These awards reflect some of the tremendous achievements we have seen in North America.”
About Accuvant
Accuvant provides solutions to address enterprise information security challenges. Accuvant security consultants rely on industry expertise and proven methodologies to help clients assess their environment, improve their compliance posture, and secure their infrastructure. Headquartered in Denver, Accuvant has 15 offices across the United States. For more information on Accuvant, please visit www.accuvant.com.
About Braxton-Grant Technologies
Braxton-Grant Technologies, Inc., (BGTech), based in Woodstock, MD, is a growing, female minority-owned and operated information technology consulting firm founded in 1997. BGTech engineers have over 60 years of experience supporting the government and commercial clients. The company provides a range of consulting services with a focus on information security. In addition, the company is a reseller of hardware and software products. At BGTech, we understand that a highly skilled and focused work force is key to our ability to deliver quality service and support. To meet the ever changing needs of our clients, BGTech is vigorously moving to expand services as integrators. We are committed to enhancing our staff qualifications in order to continue to provide leading edge solutions. Visit www.bgtinc.net/index.asp for more information.
About True North Solutions
True North Solutions is a wholly-owned subsidiary of American Systems Corporation (ASC). ASC is a privately held, employee-owned company headquartered in northern Virginia. The company, which employs more than 1,400 employees in 22 offices nationwide, provides a full range of security services. True North helps clients manage information security risks through comprehensive, ongoing information security consulting, design, implementation, training and support. Headquartered in Northern Virginia’s Technology Corridor, True North has offices throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Mid-Western regions of the United States. Visit www.truenorthsolutions.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 for all users and applications. Blue Coat has installed more than 25,000 appliances worldwide and is ranked #1 by IDC in the Secure Content and Application Delivery market. 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’ most recently filed Form 10-Q for the quarter ended January 31, 2006 and Form 10-K for the year ended April 30, 2005, and other reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
