Blue Coat Named as Finalist for Two Security Industry Awards
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Recognized by 2008 Info Security Products Guide Global Product Excellence Award and as a 'Hot Company' by Silicon Valley Communications
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 27 -- Blue Coat Systems (NASDAQ:BCSI), a leader in WAN Application Delivery and Secure Web Gateway, today announced that the company has been named a finalist in Info Security Products Guide's Global Product Excellence Awards and Silicon Valley Communications' Hot Companies Awards. Info Security Products Guide has named the Blue Coat® ProxySG® appliances a finalist for the 2008 Global Product Excellence Awards in two categories - Excellence in Security Solution for Enterprise and Excellence in Web Filtering Solution.
"We are proud to have been named a finalist in the Global Product Excellence and Hot Companies Awards," said Bethany Mayer, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Blue Coat. "Blue Coat ProxySG appliances ensure that companies do not need to compromise between network security and performance - our products accelerate Web content and applications while ensuring security and policy control. Earning this distinction further validates our unique value proposition."
Info Security Products Guide's Global Product Excellence Awards recognize security and IT vendors that have advanced, ground-breaking products and solutions and that help set the standard for others in all areas of technology. The ProxySG appliance was voted a finalist in a vote of more than 11,000 voters worldwide, consisting of end-users, channel partners and readers of Info Security Products Guide. Vendors themselves were not permitted to vote for their products.
The Silicon Valley Communications 2008 Hot Companies Award recognizes companies for excellence in information technologies including security, wireless, storage, networking, software and communications. The Hot Companies 2008 evaluation process assessed candidates for entrepreneurial spirit, seasoned executives with relevant experience, clear understanding of the segment of IT market where they are currently active and plan to stay active, products and solutions that are positioned to take advantage of emerging market opportunities, well developed revenue-growth model and clearly planned expansion strategies.
Both the Info Security Product Awards and the Hot Companies Award will be honored on January 2008 at Technosium 2008 in Santa Clara, Calif.
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 http://www.bluecoat.com/.
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