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Voice, Video and Data Convergence: a Best Practice Approach for Transitioning Your Network Infrastructure
In a converged network, VoIP, business and recreational traffic are often competing for limited bandwidth and creating performance problems for users across your enterprise. Yet, the business benefits of network convergence are unmistakable. Now is the time to prepare your IT infrastructure to take full advantage of convergence. This white paper identifies how to take control of your bandwidth for a successful IP telephony implementation.
In Your Network Ready for VoIP?
Get real answers to your tough questions about implementing an IP telephony solution for your enterprise. This quick read white paper presents the key issues facing a VoIP deployment in question and answer format to supplement the strategic ideas you have learned in Blue Coat's "Voice, Video and Data Convergence: a Best Practice Approach" white paper.
Application Delivery Networks: The New Imperative for IT Visibility, Acceleration and Security
Your business depends on getting the right information to the right people at the right time. Doing so requires the ability to intelligently control the delivery of applications wherever users are located. In this white paper, you will learn why a comprehensive approach to seeing, accelerating, and securing your network traffic is essential to meeting the global challenges resulting from the need to consolidate resources while supporting an
increasingly mobile work force.
ProxyClient Extends Application Delivery to End Points
With the ability to accelerate and secure user-to-application interaction, ProxyClient - which incorporates both application security and acceleration - restores IT control of users and applications communicating beyond the traditional physical boundaries of the enterprise.
xChange Magazine eBook: Opportunities for Service Providers in Optimizing the Corporate WAN
Real time, content, peer-to-peer and mobile traffic already are straining today's networks. Meanwhile, emerging service delivery models, such as network-based managed services and cloud-based computing, are putting new pressures on carrier networks. The resulting changes in traffic characteristics are making the competing goals of ensuring throughput and security all the more difficult. This eBook, sponsored by Blue Coat, explores such challenges and looks at how the enormous revenue opportunity as a result of exploding bandwidth requirements and managed services adoption requires a creative response to network performance management.
Monitor and Control Recreational Traffic
The explosive use of peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing, personal networking sites like MySpace, and video-sharing sites like YouTube are all examples of the dramatic changes in how we communicate socially, particularly among younger populations. The underlying problem is how drastically these recreational applications can drag down your network performance.
Data-Centric Security for Enterprise WANs
Enterprises of all kinds need to protect valuable data, whether to comply with industry regulations or to guard intellectual capital. Unfortunately, it's all too easy-and common-for users to leak this data to outside parties, either accidentally or with malicious intent.
Optimizing Managed Service Delivery with Secure Application Acceleration
This THINKstrategies analyst whitepaper examines service provider trends and challenges related to evolving service offerings and delivering differentiated, high-revenue managed secure acceleration services to business customers.
Service Provider Network Management Planning Guide
In this SearchTelecom E-Guide, check out what's driving radical change in traditional network management, how Web 2.0, SOA, IMS and other application-heavy delivery platforms are changing the management requirements, how to troubleshoot a multimedia network to ensure capacity and performance, and the need for "systemic" network monitoring.
Enterprise IPTV and Video Streaming with the Blue Coat ProxySG
In this document we first provide an overview of the Blue Coat ProxySG and its MACH5 technology for Enterprise Content Delivery. We then provide an overview of the Jubilant ERM2 Platform for IPTV Management, and discuss how ERM2 integrates with the Blue Coat MACH5 technology suite to enable a seamless end-to-end solution for an enterprise.
Buyer’s guide - Application Acceleration/WAN Optimization
From the editors of Network World, review this timely information on accelerating and optimizing your network needs. Learn how to slash costs and improve performance with a review or market trends, buying tips, best practices and case studies.
Hidden Dangers in the Mobile Worker Jungle
From mobile workers' perspectives, up-to-the-minute information is the life blood of their jobs. Regardless of whether they are in a home office or on the other side of the globe, speed and dependability are the keys to successfully doing their jobs. From an IT department's perspective, they must support the needs of all employees, while diligently maintaining security policies, which is becoming increasingly challenging now that the majority of the workforce has stepped beyond the corporate walls. Can these two opposing forces be reconciled? Can remote access be both fast and secure from any location?
The Alarming Shift in Cybercrime
It’s now a popular marketing tactic to claim that “brand name” websites with well-known reputations are completely safe. However, it is exactly because of this perception that these sites are being targeted to become the unwitting hosts for invisible malware that can infect a computer just by the user checking the latest news or sports scores. This paper will examine the shift in the nature of cybercrimes, how the thieves target their victims, and what can be done to prevent them.
Blue Coat and SAP: Network Infrastructure Enhancements for Successful Enterprise SOA Deployments
A number of important business trends affect the way today's enterprises use and deploy SAP business applications. This natural evolution results in enterprise SOA application software components and end users spread worldwide, connected via a wide-area network (WAN) infrastructure. Learn how a feature rich, secure application delivery solution from Blue Coat Systems can protect your enterprise SOA investment by improving performance, reducing server CPU utilization, and guaranteeing reliable access to applications by securing and controlling your WAN infrastructure.
How to Secure and Accelerate Your Oracle Applications
This whitepaper will examine the escalating application performance and security challenges facing corporations, and show how companies are securing and optimizing the performance of their enterprise applications, such as those from Oracle, with WAN application delivery solutions, such as those from Blue Coat.
The Case and Criteria for Combining Application Acceleration and Security
Several high-impact business and technology trends are driving the need for today's organizations to find ways to enhance the performance and security of their applications. In this white paper, industry analyst Mark Bouchard, CISSP, founder of Missing Link Security Services and former Meta analyst, will first elaborate on the trends, further characterizing the various challenges driving the need for greater degrees of application performance and security. Subsequently, he will establish the benefits of having a single, combined product that addresses both sets of objectives - acceleration and security - before identifying the key criteria for selecting a corresponding solution.
Application Layer vs. TCP Layer WAN Optimization
When planning the capacity of a WAN optimization solution, it's best to base calculations on a WAN optimization appliance's ability to perform application-layer functions, such as managing user counts and protocol optimization throughput, rather than on low-level metrics such as TCP counts.
Leveraging WAN Application Delivery Solutions to Accelerate and Secure Your Software-as-a-Service Capabilities
As adoption of Software-as-a-Service solutions grows, the boundary between a company’s corporate network and the Internet is disappearing, making enterprises more vulnerable to a new generation of security threats that can detrimentally impact your business operations.
The Essential Guide to WAN Optimization
When selecting a WAN optimization solution for your enterprise, it's important to consider a solution that addresses all the major concerns of application delivery. Furthermore, long term realizations, rather than short term benefits must be the focus. To give you a more in depth look into maximizing the efficiency and speed of your WAN, TechTarget has compiled some of the best articles from SearchNetworking.com and included them in this E-Guide.
A Technical Review of Caching Technologies
This document explains current caching technologies and how they function to improve application acceleration and minimize bandwidth utilization.
Taking Control of Secure Application Delivery
Industry thought leader, Jim Metzler, examines architectural models and requirements to ensure secure, accelerated delivery of applications to all remote users
Practical Strategies to Accelerate Business Applications Across the WAN
Remote users in branch offices often suffer from slow application performance over the WAN. Discover how MACH5 acceleration technology, a core part of all Blue Coat SG appliances, uses five essential techniques to speed delivery of internal and externally hosted business applications – including encrypted SSL applications - to all remote users.
WAN Application Performance - 2007
Survey results and analysis of trends andissues more than 1,300 IT organizations are addressing to ensure optimal application performance for all remote users.
The Unified Remote Access Approach
Traditional VPN technologies have been pushed beyond the scope of their original design, forcing IT organizations to accept the high cost and complexity of add-ons, extenders, multiple consoles, and thick client software administration. This white paper provides an analysis of existing IPSec and SSL VPN, followed by an overview of Blue Coat RA and its' unique on demand Connector technology.
Accelerate SSL Encrypted Applications
The amount of SSL traffic is growing in the enterprise. Because it is encrypted, it cannot be properly controlled and accelerated. Blue Coat SG appliances with MACH5 technology provides complete visibility into SSL application sessions, making it easy to apply appropriate acceleration and security controls to all SSL traffic.
Blue Coat WebFilter Technology
This document examines the requirements for dynamic content filtering solution to perform an effective policy enforcement and gateway security role, and details Blue Coat WebFilter’s approach.
URL Filtering Database Accuracy Test
Broadband-Testing Labs, an independent network testing facility in France, recently completed a comprehensive test of web content filtering solutions from Blue Coat, Websense, SmartFilter, and Surf Control. The purpose of the test was to determine which solution delivered the best in terms of categorizing and filtering a broad range of URLs. Blue Coat emerged as the superior solution in all categories tested. This white paper provides details on the test suite and results.
A Security and Acceleration Solution for K-12 Networks
The rapid adoption of eLearning applications has introduced a broad set of challenges for K-12 school districts, including web filtering, web security, and network performance. Blue Coat provides abundant policy controls wrapped in optimized hardware and a custom operating system to give K-12 school districts a proven high-performance option for gaining visibility, control, and acceleration of their web and key eLearning applications.
How to Gain Visibility and Control of Encrypted SSL Web Sessions
There is an increasing need for enterprise users to access business applications and sensitive information hosted outside the corporate network. In those situations, SSL provides users with the secure connection they need to maintain privacy over the Internet. However, hackers are discovering ways to penetrate encrypted SSL sessions and cause damage to internal corporate resources. Blue Coat’s "Inside Out" SSL Proxy solution provides the visibility and control IT organizations need to stop these threats and ensure session privacy.
Best Practices for Controlling Skype in your Enterprise
Skype is an instant messaging and internet telephony (VOIP) application designed to be hard to block and control using traditional means e.g. firewalls. Due to its stealthy nature it can presents security and compliance problems in the enterprise. This white paper describes how Blue Coat SG appliances can be used in conjunction with firewalls to block unauthorized use of Skype in the enterprise.
Secure and Accelerate Web Applications and Public Websites
This white paper overviews the performance and security values provided by Blue Coat SG appliances for reverse proxy deployments. Accelerate web content delivery with integrated caching, isolate web servers from direct Internet access, and secure communications with optional SSL services.
Visibility and Control with Proxy Appliances
Learn how to gain visibility and control of user communications over the Web. Includes details on proxy functionality and how to keep "good" employees from doing "bad" things on the Internet.
