Blue Coat Wins CRN Security Vendor of the Year Award 2007 in Australia
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., December 5, 2007 - Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BCSI), a leader in WAN Application Delivery and Secure Web Gateway, today announced that it has been awarded "Security Vendor of the Year" in the CRN Australia Channel Champion Awards for 2007. The award reflects the popularity and esteem Blue Coat has achieved among resellers, distributors and customers. Throughout Australia and the rest of the world, Blue Coat Systems is known for its combination of security, policy control, and application acceleration for large and mid-sized organizations.
Blue Coat Systems was selected over Symantec and Trend Micro for the "Security Vendor of the Year" Award. The criteria for winning the award is "channel friendliness, focusing on quality of products, customer service, margins for resellers and how easy each item or service is to sell." The award was decided by the local and international CRN team and consulting industry experts. CRN called Blue Coat the fastest growing security vendor with a protected channel model and great margins in prime deals as well as renewal and service attachment which is rare in the security space.
ProxySG appliances protect enterprises or organizations against malware, including viruses and spyware, provide URL filtering, anti-phishing capability and manage the use of Internet applications for policy or bandwidth consumption, including instant messaging, streaming media and peer-to-peer file sharing. ProxySG appliances also accelerate business-critical applications or content at the Internet gateway or across an organization's Wide Area Network (WAN).
"We are pleased to receive this award, as it represents our channel partners' recognition of Blue Coat's efforts to deliver the unique combination of security, policy control, and acceleration to the enterprise," said Bethany Mayer, senior vice president, Worldwide Marketing, Blue Coat Systems. "We value our partners who do such an outstanding job of selling and servicing our products in Australia."
Helen Frost, editor at CRN Australia congratulated Blue Coat on the award and for its continued commitment to the channel. "It's fantastic to see a company do so well so quickly in the Australian market. The judging panel commended Blue Coat for channel friendliness and commitment to providing resellers with a great solution. We created the CRN Channel Champion Awards to acknowledge key achievers from the channel whilst at the same time raising money for a worthwhile cause. Thanks to everyone's support, we were able to raise $70,000 from the event for the Cancer Council of Australia."
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 - provides 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.
