Customer Success Stories


APPLICATION DELIVERY NETWORKS

Woods Bagot CIO
Woods Bagot

Woods Bagot used Application Delivery Networking solutions from Blue Coat to achieve the strategic corporate objective of creating a “virtual global studio” while also containing costs.

“By reducing the time to transfer files into studio, we were able to drive efficiency into the business because they were able to receive and send information to each other a hundred times faster than what they could prior to the rollout of the Proxy SG and PacketShaper appliances.”

APPLICATION ACCELERATION

R.E. Mason Company

R.E. Mason Company turned to Blue Coat to optimize their WAN, minimize the time required to open CIFS files and enforce corporate policies in remote offices.

“Our remote offices have direct access to the Internet and by having the Blue Coat appliances for WAN optimization they're also doing the web content filtering and basing those policies off of our headquarters policies.”
Omnicare Clinical Research

Blue Coat ProxySG appliances and SG Client accelerate applications in branch offices. Application response time went from 3-4 minutes to a couple seconds making their research projects timely and secure as well as making employees more productive.

"With SG Client and we noticed right away that a spreadsheet that might have taken three minutes to open would open up in five or six seconds. So, we've deployed the SG Client to all of our remote users."
Charlotte Customer Video
Charlotte County Public Schools Selects Blue Coat for WAN Optimization and Web Security

Blue Coat ProxySG appliances accelerate video content and applications across the Wide Area Network (WAN) and provide security and control of student Internet access and network resources.

"You'll be a hero, because what you'll be able to show them is by putting in a capital purchase of buying some hardware, you will make a massive operational savings."
Pelco selects Blue Coat to optimize video streaming and corporate applications for the mobile user.

Blue Coat helped Pelco with their centralization of services by deploying a solution quickly and easily, supporting the remote user and giving IT granular control they needed.

"A big driver for us to reach our mobile users as well as have the ability to be really granular in what we were optimizing and what we let flow through. The other piece is that we now have the ability for optimizing corporate video which is big for us. We also have the security piece of it as well."
Nevada Department of Corrections selects Blue Coat for application acceleration, information security and policy control.

Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC), the state’s largest agency, use Blue Coat® ProxySG® appliances to optimize its Wide Area Network (WAN) increasing response time 625%.

"Blue Coat is enabling us to deploy a new application that is critical to our effective operations. It’s important that the application has a fast enough response time to make its use interactive, even to our most remote locations."
Heriot-Watt University Selects Blue Coat for WAN Optimization, Web Security and Policy Control
Heriot-Watt University Selects Blue Coat for WAN Optimization, Web Security and Policy Control

Blue Coat® ProxySG® Appliances Enable Virtual Learning Environment Between Edinburgh and Dubai by Accelerating and Securing Key Applications and Content.

“Blue Coat has enabled us to provide an effective Virtual Learning Environment through accelerating applications across the WAN, including video and SSL-encrypted traffic. The Blue Coat appliances also provide the Web security and policy control we need to protect our students, staff and resources.”
Avocent Accelerates Critical Applications over WAN While Ensuring Distributed Web Security at Branch Offices
Avocent Accelerates Critical Applications over WAN While Ensuring Distributed Web Security at Branch Offices

Blue Coat SG appliances accelerate file transfer, SSL encrypted traffic and other business critical applications.

“Avocent understood security and control are inherently connected...having a single policy infrastructure enables them to stop the bad and accelerate the good.”
Networx Australia Accelerates Applications
Networx Australia Accelerates Applications, Reduces Bandwidth and Offers Integrated Security for Customers

Blue Coat SG appliances enable business internet service provider to increase customer satisfaction, boost retention and reduce costs.

“Blue Coat SG appliances can simultaneously solve application latency issues, reduce bandwidth consumption and deliver security and control.”
SNL Financial Accelerates Information Flow to and from Branch Offices
SNL Financial Accelerates Information Flow to and from Branch Offices

Blue Coat SG appliances accelerate file services and business critical applications while delivering Web security and control.

“Blue Coat provides a complete platform for application acceleration, bandwidth reduction and Web security and control.”
Policy-Based Acceleration for all Business Applications
Policy-Based Acceleration for all Business Applications - including SSL while adding Security and Control

Canada’s fastest growth wealth management firm - Fast, Lean, Efficient.

“The competitors only allowed acceleration of less than 5% of the traffic, which didn't justify the costs. Enterprises have to take a strategic view to address the acceleration of all distributed applications.”
Charlotte County Public Schools: Acceleration Web Applications, Streaming Media, and SSL
Charlotte County Public Schools: Acceleration Web Applications, Streaming Media, and SSL

Enterprise-class demands on a school district budget.

“It was extremely important for us to find a solution that would accelerate key applications and content, and protect our students.”

REMOTE ACCESS

Blue Coat Prescribes Remote Access and Endpoint Security Remedy to Hospital in France
Blue Coat Prescribes Remote Access and Endpoint Security Remedy to Hospital in France

Blue Coat RA delivers clientless, secure remote access to complex medical applications and sensitive patient information.

"Blue Coat's user-friendly solution gives doctors, no matter where they're located, immediate and easy access to the patient information they need.”
Blue Coat Cures Remote Access Security and Compliance Pains for Upper Chesapeake Health
Blue Coat Cures Remote Access Security and Compliance Pains for Upper Chesapeake Health

Blue Coat RA helped Upper Chesapeake Health meet HIPAA compliance guidelines, protecting personal health information accessed by remote employees, partner and customers.

"Easy to deploy and manage, Blue Coat RA solved all of our remote access and compliance needs, including protection against increasing security threats.”

PERFORMANCE MONITORING

Ernst & Young deploys Blue Coat for control over enterprise applications
Blue Coat Helps Ernst & Young Australia Implement 6,000 VoIP Lines without increasing Bandwidth

Ernst & Young Australia deploys Blue Coat PacketShapers to gain control over enterprise applications that normally would dominate bandwidth, allowing the company to pursue a new IP telephony system in a cost effective manner by avoiding the purchase of additional bandwidth.

“Without something like PacketShaper, I believe we would need 2 or 3 times the current bandwidth to obtain comparable performance and utilization.”
FIMA-Unliver deploys Blue Coat to improve application performance
Unilever deploys Blue Coat PacketShaper to provide visibility and control within existing resources

Lisbon-based Unilever implemented a wide-area network to support everything from SAP to VoIP, and Blue Coat helped the company avoid costly link upgrades by improving bandwidth efficiency and application performance across an MPLS-based WAN.

“With PacketShaper, SAP performance has improved significantly. Log sessions that once took more than an hour are now completed in a timely and reliable manner.”
INERGY uses Blue Coat for application performance monitoring & WAN Optimization
INERGY Automotive Systems Increases Network Performance and Enterprise Security with Blue Coat Intelligence

INERGY finds Blue Coat’s intelligent approach to application delivery over the WAN optimizes the performance of key applications, and also enables INERGY to assess the impact of convergence and consolidation to ensure QoS and application delivery.

"Our desire was to make the best use of our existing bandwidth, rather than add more to keep up with constantly increasing demand. Blue Coat told us what was happening throughout the network, making it easy to see how different applications are behaving."
Liz Claiborne uses Blue Coat application-intelligent bandwidth management
Liz Claiborne Dresses Up Application Performance with Blue Coat PacketShaper Appliances

Liz Claiborne has found Blue Coat’s application-intelligent bandwidth management capabilities to be both comprehensive and easy to use. IT is able to classify, prioritize and intelligently control all traffic to deliver optimal performance for the company’s converged applications.

"With routers and switches providing only rudimentary capabilities, at best, the sophisticated application intelligence and bandwidth management we gain from deploying PacketShapers is crucial to our worldwide business."

SECURE WEB INFRASTRUCTURE

Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt Deploys ProxySG Worldwide
Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt Deploys ProxySG Worldwide

European publishing leader protects global distributed workforce from online threats

"Blue Coat won me over in the end with its enormous caching rate, support for a large number of URL filters and anti-virus software, as well as its ability to inspect SSL traffic."
BT selected Blue Coat ProxySG appliances to secure its data and infrastructure

BT selected Blue Coat ProxySG appliances to secure its data and infrastructure. ProxySG appliances uniquely combine user and application visibility and understanding with extremely granular levels of security and control including - content filtering, content security and virus scanning - so that rules can be enforced based on a wide range of attributes and with great flexibility. Some criteria includes user, application and nature of the site. In addition, rather than slowing traffic as it applies security and policy control, ProxySG appliances actually accelerate the acceptable content and applications. At the same time, the appliances reduce the amount of bandwidth being consumed by significant amounts.

"We must ensure that we secure our network and can block sites which are tasteless or offensive"
Blue Coat Makes Remote Medicine a Practical Reality
Blue Coat Makes Remote Medicine a Practical Reality

Reverse proxy solution provides Exempla Healthcare with HIPAA-compliant access to patient information.

“Since implementing ProxySG, we don't hesitate to provide remote access to our systems and databases."
State of Alabama Picks Blue Coat Proxy Appliances to Protect Web Infrastructure
State of Alabama Picks Blue Coat Proxy Appliances to Protect Web Infrastructure

State government finds ideal solution for letting good content in and keeping bad content out.

“Blue Coat ProxySG was easy to deploy, is easy to manage, and provides the state with the flexibility and power we need to manage our networks.”
PlainsCapital Banks on Blue Coat Proxy Appliances as Foundation for Web Security
PlainsCapital Banks on Blue Coat Proxy Appliances as Foundation for Web Security

Growing Financial Institution Lowers Risk and Improves Performance.

“Blue Coat appliances have eliminated our spyware-related help desk issues, are preventing viruses from landing on our desktops..., and have saved us thousands of dollars... ”
Maxtor Deploys Blue Coat Proxy Appliances to Protect and Control its Web Infrastructure
Maxtor Deploys Blue Coat Proxy Appliances to Protect and Control its Web Infrastructure

Storage solutions company accelerates web applications while stopping web-borne viruses and spyware

“The Blue Coat appliances have eliminated our spyware related help desk issues and are preventing viruses from landing on our desktops through Web-based back doors.”
State of Delaware Relies on Blue Coat Proxy Appliances as Foundation for Web Security
State of Delaware Relies on Blue Coat Proxy Appliances as Foundation for Web Security

Proxy-based network architecture enables spyware prevention, web anti-virus and web filtering while improving web performance.

"We are very pleased with the effectiveness of Blue Coat's products in preventing viruses from attacking our network and actually making our network perform faster.”

SPYWARE PREVENTION

Mustang Controls Spyware at the Gateway and Reaps Huge Benefit
Mustang Controls Spyware at the Gateway and Reaps Huge Benefit

Global engineering firm uses Blue Coat proxy appliances to cut costs and restore worker productivity.

“The best thing about Blue Coat was that it prevented the spyware from getting into our organization at the gateway, so there was nothing to have to clean off of the desktops”
Denver Health Relies on Blue Coat to Prevent Spyware from Infecting 3,200 PCs
Denver Health Relies on Blue Coat to Prevent Spyware from Infecting 3,200 PCs

Preventative gateway anti-spyware solution eliminates 25% of help desk calls; saves hosipital roughly $100,000 a year in ineffective time spent with desktop software.

“With Blue Coat at the gateway, I have been able to nearly eliminate spyware from landing on desktop computers in the first place, ...our help-desk calls have been drastically reduced..”
Green Bay Packers Sack Spyware with Blue Coat Gateway Spyware Prevention
Green Bay Packers Sack Spyware with Blue Coat Gateway Spyware Prevention

Integrated Proxy SG and Proxy AV Solution Keeps Player, Coach and Staff Computers Free of Spyware.

"We deployed Blue Coat's gateway anit-spyware solution to stop known and unknown forms of spyware before our internal systems can become infected. "

CONTENT FILTERING

Palm Beach Schools Move Web Security and Compliance to the Head of the Class
Palm Beach Schools Move Web Security and Compliance to the Head of the Class

Proxy appliances receive top grades for content filtering and performance optimization.

"Blue Coat’s unique technology allows us to automatically analyze and block Internet threats and traffic that do not meet our requirements..."
Holland America Line Enjoys Smooth Sailing with Blue Coat
Holland America Line Enjoys Smooth Sailing with Blue Coat

Proxy appliance gives the cruise line an affordable, flexible solution for comprehensive Web content filtering

"Things are working very well with Blue Coat. The rules-based interface makes administration very precise and flexible..”
CR England Trucking Hitches Up with Blue Coat for High-Performance Web Visibility and Control
CR England Trucking Hitches Up with Blue Coat for High-Performance Web Visibility and Control

CR England Trucking Hitches Up with Blue Coat for High-Performance Web Visibility and Control

“We know proxies are good for Web control, and with Web use growing throughout our organization, we need a proxy solution that provides granular Web control while keeping up with the ‘real-time’ performance of our Web traffic."

WEB PROXY

Frank Russell Company Improves Security, Reduces Costs with Blue Coat
Frank Russell Company Improves Security, Reduces Costs with Blue Coat

Secure Proxy Appliances Allows Investment Management Firm to Control Web Use Without Degrading Network Performance.

“We chose Blue Coat because their solution allowed us to improve end-user performance and simplify the management of our Internet connectivity infrastructure.”