Blue Coat’s Fourth Consecutive Win Demonstrates Strength of Solution and Value to Customers
Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (“Blue Coat”), a market leader in Web Security and WAN optimisation, has announced that its MACH5 appliance has won the Computerworld Singapore and Computerworld Malaysia Readers Choice Award in the “WAN Accelerator” category. This marks the fourth consecutive win for the American company, demonstrating its strength of solution and the value it provides to customers.
The big shift to cloud-based applications and bring your own device (BYOD) trends has put much strain on enterprise networks and increased corporate requirements for WAN optimisation.
Blue Coat MACH5 appliances provides data acceleration as well as next generation WAN optimisation to aid in impact of big data applications, accelerate delivery of Sofware-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications and manage mobile devices on the corporate network.
For more on Blue Coat MACH5, visit the official MACH5 product page.
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For Immediate Release
Blue Coat MACH5 Appliance Wins Computerworld Singapore and Computerworld Malaysia Readers Choice Award for WAN Optimization
Fourth Consecutive Win Demonstrates Strength of Solution and Value It Delivers to Customers
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, October 23, 2012 – Blue Coat Systems, Inc., a market leader in Web security and WAN optimization, today announced that the Blue Coat® MACH5 appliance has won the Computerworld Singapore and Computerworld Malaysia Readers Choice Award in the “WAN Accelerator” category. This is the fourth consecutive win for Blue Coat, which demonstrates the strength of the solution and value it provides to customers that are embracing cloud-based applications, bring your own device (BYOD) initiatives and video technologies.
“The shift to cloud-based applications and BYOD trends is here to stay. This will only put additional strain on enterprise networks and increase corporate requirements for WAN optimization. IT departments will need a solid strategy to distinguish recreational traffic from business-relevant applications. With its fourth consecutive win, Blue Coat has clearly demonstrated that it has the answer to the ever-evolving needs of the industry in both markets,” said Jack Loo, editor, Computerworld Singapore.
In addition to traditional data acceleration, Blue Coat MACH5 appliances also provide next-generation WAN optimization to mitigate the impact of live and on-demand video, accelerate the delivery of cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications and manage mobile devices on the corporate network. MACH5 appliances use advanced caching technologies to prevent video floods and bandwidth consumption associated with employee-owned devices from saturating a company’s WAN or Internet gateway. Blue Coat’s asymmetric acceleration technology optimizes the performance of cloud-based applications without deploying WAN optimization devices in the application provider’s infrastructure.
“This win is a vote of confidence from the IT community in two ASEAN countries where Blue Coat has strong market presence. It validates that organizations continue to value Blue Coat’s complete and innovative approach to WAN optimization in meeting the needs of businesses with distributed employees,” said Simon Molenberg, managing director for ASEAN, Blue Coat Systems.
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