Four Out of Five FORTUNE Global 500 Companies Rely on Blue Coat Application Delivery Network Products
Release Date:
07/28/2009 - 7:45am
Blue Coat Serves the Application Delivery Requirements of the World’s Most Demanding Businesses Across Vertical Industries
SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 28, 2009 – Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCSI), the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that 83 percent of FORTUNE Global 500 companies utilize Blue Coat® Application Delivery Network products to optimize the delivery of business-enabling applications across the distributed enterprise. In the 2009 ranking by FORTUNE of the world’s largest companies, 97 of the top 100 companies are Blue Coat customers, including the world’s largest banks, pharmaceutical companies, telecommunications providers and petroleum refiners.
Blue Coat customers on the latest FORTUNE Global 500 list also include the following:
- Eighty-three percent of the Fortune Global 500
- Ninety-seven of the 100 largest companies in the world
- The 25 largest commercial banks
- The 20 largest telecommunications providers
- The 12 largest pharmaceutical companies
- Fifteen of the 16 largest electronics companies
- The nine largest mining companies
- The nine largest aerospace and defense companies
- The nine largest computer companies
- The nine largest metals companies
- The nine largest specialty retailers
- The six largest airlines
- The six largest food and drug stores
- The five largest consumer food companies
- The five largest insurance and managed care companies
- Eight of the nine largest chemical companies
The Blue Coat Application Delivery Network infrastructure combines application performance monitoring, WAN optimization and secure Web gateway technologies to contain costs, enhance business productivity and respond quickly to changing business requirements.
“The most demanding enterprises in the world rely on Blue Coat for the intelligence and control to optimize application performance and gain a competitive edge,” said Bethany Mayer, senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing and Corporate Development at Blue Coat Systems. “Blue Coat enables these distributed enterprises to fully leverage their networks to deliver business-critical applications.”
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About Blue Coat Systems
Blue Coat Systems is the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking. Blue Coat offers an Application Delivery Network Infrastructure that provides the visibility, acceleration and security required to optimize and secure the flow of information to any user, on any network, anywhere. This application intelligence enables enterprises to tightly align network investments with business requirements, speed decision making and secure business applications for long-term competitive advantage. For additional information, please visit www.bluecoat.com.
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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 fiscal year ended April 30, 2009, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
