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Blue Coat Application Delivery Network solutions provide intelligent control of your network through the combination of visibility, acceleration and security technologies that optimize application and network performance for any user, anywhere, across a distributed organization. Blue Coat's application performance management, WAN optimization and Secure Web Gateway solutions enable IT to provide greater business efficiency, effectiveness and competitiveness.

Blue Coat Systems is a leading provider of the most comprehensive Application Delivery Network solutions. Over 15,000 of the most demanding organizations, including 81% of the Fortune Global 500®, trust Blue Coat to accelerate and control mission-critical applications. Additional information is available at www.bluecoat.com.

whitePaper Best Practices for Controlling Skype within the Enterprise
Skype is a proprietary peer-to-peer (P2P) voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) network, founded by the creators of KazAa, the popular peer-to-peer technology. The network is defined by all users of the free desktop software application. As it comes to your organization, should you embrace it and its benefits or attempt to stop its progress?
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whitePaper Data Centric Security for Enterprise WANs
Enterprises of all kinds need to protect valuable data, whether to comply with industry regulations or to guard intellectual capital. Unfortunately, it's all too easy and common for users to leak this data to outside parties, either accidentally or with malicious intent.
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whitePaper How to Secure and Accelerate Your Oracle Applications
Companies have never been as dependent on software applications to perform their day-to-day operations and achieve their corporate objectives. Yet, the growing use of today's "internal" software applications across wide area networks (WANs), or external applications across the Internet, is making it increasingly difficult to obtain optimal and secure performance from these essential applications.
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whitePaper Monitor & Control Recreational Traffic
The explosive use of peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing, personal networking sites like MySpace, and video-sharing sites like YouTube are all examples of the dramatic changes in how we communicate socially, particularly among younger populations. The underlying problem is how drastically these recreational applications can drag down your network performance. Learn how Blue Coat helps you manage recreational applications today.
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whitePaper Optimizing Managed Service Delivery with Secure Application Acceleration
Large-scale enterprises, as well as small- and mid-size businesses (SMBs) are facing unprecedented competitive and economic challenges. Escalating fuel costs and growing concerns regarding the ecological impact of traditional business practices are compounding these challenges.
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whitePaper The Alarming Shift in Cybercrime: How Organized Attacks Now Target Your Wallet
Despite over $7 billion a year being spent on anti-virus and other security software, the dangers of becoming a victim of cybercrime are increasing. This paper will examine the shift in the nature of cybercrimes, how the thieves target their victims, and what can be done to prevent them.
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whitePaper Visibility and Control with Proxy Appliances
The adoption of the Web browser as the medium to provide application access and Internet communication has completely permeated the desktop environment. More than ever, companies are implementing browser-based applications as solutions for nearly every aspect of their business operations.
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whitePaper Voice, Video and Data Convergence: A Approach for Transitioning Your Network Infrastructure
With Blue Coat, you can seamlessly transition to a converged network with solutions that help you plan and execute the right strategy for your business. Our goal is to help you quickly achieve the benefits of convergence with minimal impact during all the stages of execution.
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podcast Malware Defenses
Blue Coat's Chief Scientist and its Security Expert discuss Malware Defenses and a new industry concept - the honey grid. The honey grid is like a community watch. Download this podcast to learn more.
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researchReport Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateway
Secure Web gateway solutions protect Web-surfing PCs from infection and enforce company policies. Incumbent providers have been slow to respond, while new vendors are struggling to get the product mix right and prove their mettle in the demanding enterprise market.
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video Video on the Web - Chalk Talk
Watch this brief entertaining chalk talk on pre-population and stream splitting for video delivery. With Blue Coat you can enhance end-user experience by eliminating buffering pauses or choppiness, providing faster start times and smoother audio and video playback.
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video WAN Optimization - Chalk Talk
Watch this brief entertaining chalk talk on WAN Optimization. No matter where your users work, Blue Coat solutions can accelerate application performance to LAN speeds - securely and cost-effectively. Apply policies to stop, speed up or slow down content. Make room for business critical applications and slow down recreational usage.
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whitePaper Hidden Dangers in the Mobile Worker Jungle
It is a jungle out there, particularly now that millions of workers work remotely, placing new demands on their IT infrastructure and often unknowingly threatening their company's security every day. Recent studies indicate that within three years, there will be over one billion mobile workers worldwide, so the problems of secure, fast, and reliable remote access will only escalate.
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whitePaper Enterprise Application Delivery - No User Left Behind
This white paper explains how Blue Coat ProxyClient is part of an overall enterprise solution for application delivery that interconnects with Blue Coat's ProxySG appliances to provide application acceleration and security for all users whether at headquarters, regional and branch offices, on the road, or at home.
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technologyBrief Top 10 Ways to Protect Against Web Threats
This technology brief details the top 10 ways to secure and accelerate your business by thwarting many web attacks with protections at the Web Gateway.
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technologyBrief Accelerating Disaster Recovery into Business Continuity
This Technology Brief outlines how, using WAN optimization with Blue Coat MACH5 technology, businesses expand their scope of coverage, reduce operational expenses and accelerate disaster recovery into business continuity.
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podcast ProxyClient Podcast
Listen to this podcast to learn more about Blue Coat's ProxyClient, and how it accelerates application performance and gives LAN-like performance for all of your enterprise locations.
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technologyBrief Top 10 Reasons Hackers Use the Web for Attacks
This technology brief details the vulnerabilities hackers use to take advantage of the web for attacks. Secure and accelerate your business with protections at the Web Gateway.
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