Webcasts

Today’s businesses need to maximize network investments to save money or be more competitive. WAN managed services and MPLS are proven to help manage costs and improve application delivery. With MPLS+ services, your organization has an even bigger opportunity to prioritize applications based on type or user, even for hard to distinguish web applications to align your network investments with business objectives.

Learn how MPLS can help maximize your WAN investments from this short podcast on ‘MPLS+ Managed Services’ hosted by industry analyst Agatha Poon of the Yankee Group. Find out the right technology and expertise you need to get the greatest return on investment.

To learn more read our MPLS+ Managed Services Brief .

Malware and Web media are huge obstacles for web gateways. Web malware has increased over 500% in 2008, and continues to escalate though multiple web entry points; and an overwhelming amount of video and media is being accessed daily by users. Early web gateways were designed around page loads and object caching, to improve performance and optimize web content delivery. Join Tom Clare, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Blue Coat Systems for this webinar and lean about:
• Web malware and web media updates
• New community watch cloud defenses
• Features and benefits of hybrid web gateways
• Enhanced remote user protection
• Advancements for web media optimization

The complex web eco system can be used equally effectively for good and bad. Search engines are a way to find information and most web sessions today involve one or more searches. Also, the explosive growth of web and focus on openness and ease has left many web servers vulnerable for unauthorized access by criminals. When you visit these sites you will get content above and beyond what you bargained for - malware! Join Mikko Valimaki, Chief Scientist, Blue Coat systems and get a technical dive and learn how cyber criminals try to guide your searches to get you go to their sites - and what happens when you get there. Live question and answer session to follow the presentation.

Web malware has changed the playing field making traditional URL filtering and anti-virus solutions with daily updates less effective, learn why and what you should change in this valuable webinar.

Did you know Blue Coat ProxyClient delivers both security and acceleration benefits to remote users as part of your Blue Coat Web gateway solution? All at no cost to you. Learn how to leverage community watch cloud services in this free, on-demand Webinar.

This demo provides an overview of challenges in monitoring and troubleshooting network performance issues in the diverse world of applications, and provides an overview of how Blue Coat helps you see traffic at the application level, track user performance, monitor voice and video quality, effectively troubleshoot – and RESOLVE performance problems.

You’re being asked to deliver video based training and live webcasts over the same WAN links that are overburdened today. But with files sizes of 10s and 100s of Megabytes, it seems utterly impossible. Discover how split streaming, caching and CDN capabilities reduce bandwidth requirements by 1000 percent and enhance user experience at branch offices and on the network. All without breaking the bank on expensive hardware.

There is a strong focus on cost containment in the IT environment, even as we create new demands on a distributed WAN environment - now and with future initiatives. While data consolidation and email drive increasing bandwidth demand and user performance issues, the imperative to fix performance problems with Web delivered, mission-critical applications is moving to the forefront. Today's problems with files, recreational traffic, SSL enabled applications - and the challenge of delivering voice and video conferencing - are being complicated with emerging issues such as Software-as-a-Service, mobile users and the extension of the Enterprise outside of its sphere of control.

A Case Study with Concord Hospital Concord Hospital discusses how the Blue Coat / Lancope joint solution provides them with the information it needs to optimize their network as well as to detect anomalies, zero-day security threats and application policy violations.

Delivering applications across a distributed Wide Area Network is increasingly challenging. File access issues associated with data consolidation drive a lot of focus in the industry today, and is one among four key performance issues that network engineers, IT architects and application groups need to understand to solve today’s issues.

As enterprises look to increase business efficiency, IT managers are increasingly asked to maximize network ROI and align the infrastructure with business processes and goals. However, to effectively accomplish this, IT managers need to understand the traffic and applications. Without visibility, it is virtually impossible to optimize the network. With visibility, IT managers can classify and prioritize critical business applications, and monitor performance to assess end user experience.

In an effort to help the environment, increase workspace flexibility, and outsource the cost of office space, more organizations are enabling various forms of remote work. Remote work perforates the enterprise security perimeter by allowing access to enterprise in a wide range of connectivity scenarios, most of which may not conform to enterprise security standards. This podcast discusses the security hazards induced by the perforated perimeter, productivity challenges induced by WAN latency, and introduces Blue Coat ProxyClient - a client application that can simultaneously deliver both Web security and WAN optimization to the remote user.

More data? Traveling further distances over the WAN? With data and server consolidation stressing WAN's to the limit and new initiatives coming down the pipe, it’s hard to deliver key applications reliably. Learn how to solve your organization’s unique latency and performance challenges – without simply writing blank checks. Discover optimization solutions that keep costs down.

Now it’s time to deliver on the promise of video, VoIP/IPT and other powerful applications through your WAN. But tracking quality (MOS scores), troubleshooting issues – loss, delay and latency and assuring effective delivery can be challenging. Learn if your network is ready, how to track real time performance and how you can make sure your IPT and Video conferencing applications are delivered as expected.

Join us for this cybersecurity webinar with GCN. The speaker will be Major General David N. Senty. Major General Senty is the mobilization assistant to the Commander, Air Force Cyberspace Command (Provisional), Barksdale Air Force Base, La. The AFCYBER (P) is responsible for organizing, training, and equipping Air Forces to conduct sustained global operations in and through cyberspace, fully integrated with air and space operations.

Learn more about Blue Coat’s ProxyClient. It is client software that accelerates application performance and gives LAN-like performance in any location. The ProxyClient extends URL filtering benefits to remote users. Create an office-like experience for your remote users.