SUNNYVALE, Calif., November 17, 2009 – Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCSI), the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that Campus Veolia, the training centre established by Veolia Environment, has reduced its bandwidth consumption by 40 percent with Blue Coat^® ProxySG^® appliances and ProxyClient^® software. As a result of the bandwidth savings, Campus Veolia can now provide videoconferencing services and broadcast video feeds to its 300 internal and 100 external users.

 

To gain better control of the applications running on its network, Campus Veolia deployed Blue Coat ProxySG appliances together with Blue Coat WebFilter software to set, enforce and report on network users’ compliance with corporate IT policies across the organization. Campus Veolia also deployed Blue Coat ProxyClient software to extend IT policy enforcement to all of its remote and mobile workers. Using the ProxySG appliance, Campus Veolia can analyze and filter Web traffic, including encrypted traffic, to protect its employees and optimize the delivery of critical business applications.

 

Following the deployment of the Blue Coat solution, Campus Veolia realized an immediate 40 percent reduction in bandwidth consumption. By blocking Web content and applications that do not comply with corporate IT policies, Campus Veolia optimized the performance of its business applications and significantly improved Web navigation.   Campus Veolia also utilized the reclaimed network bandwidth capacity to deploy videoconferencing and broadcast video feeds to its employees. 

 

Fadhil Amina, IT manager at Campus Veolia, commented: “We were attracted to the Blue Coat solution because of the high level of its performance, the flexibility it offered, the quality of its reporting and its granular control.”

 

With the Blue Coat ProxySG appliances and Blue Coat WebFilter software, Campus Veolia has also fortified its protection against viruses, spyware, malware and other malicious content. The ability to control Web content and applications allows Campus Veolia to proactively prevent malicious content from entering its network. Blue Coat WebFilter software works with the Blue Coat WebPulse™ cloud service, a community watch environment in which the discovery of malware by one member is shared with all, immediately protecting the community from emerging threats. 

 

Campus Veolia uses the Blue Coat Reporter platform to provide a centralized, role-based view of all user activity. The flexible and customizable user interface allows IT managers to easily create and run reports charting cost per bit, user activity and likely malware sites and more. With the visibility into user behavior and network usage provided by the Reporter platform, Campus Veolia can more efficiently optimize its network to meet the changing requirements of its business and employees.

 

Emmanuelle Ribouleau, Director for Southern Europe at Blue Coat, said: “Blue Coat enables organizations like Campus Veolia to optimize and secure the flow of information, while enabling its network administrators to accelerate the deployment of new services that improve employee productivity. With a combination of Blue Coat products, Campus Veolia gains an understanding of user activity as well as the power to control that activity to increase the performance of its business applications.”

 

Blue Coat partner DCI managed the implementation and conducted user training to provide rapid time-to-value for Campus Veolia. Encouraged by the positive results of this initial deployment, Campus Veolia now plans to roll out the Blue Coat solution to other sites.