Profile
Blue Coat Systems Inc.
420 North Mary Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94085
United States - Map
Phone: 408-220-2200
Fax: 408-220-2250
Website: http://www.bluecoat.com

Details
Index Membership: N/A
Sector: Technology
Industry: Business Software & Services
Full Time Employees: 1,321

Business Summary

Blue Coat Systems, Inc. designs, develops, and sells products and services that secure, accelerate, and optimize the delivery of business applications, Web content, and other information to distributed users over a wide area network (WAN) or the public Internet/Web. Its products provide end user customers with information about the applications and Web traffic running on their networks, including discover, classify, manage, and control communications between users and applications across internal networks, as well as the WAN and the Internet. The company’s principal products include ProxySG Appliance that serves as the foundation for secure Web gateway products and WAN Optimization offerings; ProxySG Virtual Appliance, a software that provides WAN optimization functionality and operates on a virtual environment; CacheFlow 5000 Appliance, which address the problems of telecommunications service providers; Blue Coat ProxyAV Appliance designed to use with ProxySG appliances to provide inline threat protection and malware scanning of Web content at the Internet gateway; Blue Coat WebFilter Software, a content filtering database that operates on ProxySG appliance and includes client-based software for remote workers; PacketShaper Appliance, which enables an information technology administrator to monitor the applications running on the enterprise’s network; and Blue Coat Cloud Service, a subscription-based service that delivers its functionality through the Internet on demand. It also offers hardware and software support, as well as professional and training services. Blue Coat Systems primarily sells its products to strategic and large enterprise customers, as well as mid-enterprise customers worldwide. The company was formerly known as CacheFlow, Inc. and changed its name to Blue Coat Systems, Inc. in August 2002. Blue Coat Systems was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.