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Blue Coat Leads Content Security Gateway Appliance Market For Fourteenth Consecutive Quarter
Published Sep 21, 2010
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Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCSI), the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that it has increased its market share in the content security gateway appliance market and now holds more than a third of the European market, more than double the market share of its nearest competitor, according to the most recent market share report from Infonetics. Blue Coat extended its leadership to 14 consecutive quarters and has led the content security gateway appliance market every quarter since Infonetics began tracking content security gateway appliances.
“The rapidity with which Web-based threats emerge and evolve requires a new kind of intelligent defense that can quickly respond to protect employees worldwide, including those working remotely,” said Nigel Hawthorn, VP EMEA Marketing, Blue Coat Systems. “By combining appliances with a cloud-based defense, the Blue Coat solution gives organizations the protection they require in this new threat landscape, and the Infonetics market share report clearly reflects the value enterprises find in this approach.”
The Blue Coat Secure Web Gateway solution delivers on-demand security intelligent through a hybrid architecture that combines presence at the corporate Web gateway with a collaborative cloud-based defense to protect employees worldwide. By uniting 62 million users in the Blue Coat® WebPulse™ service, the Blue Coat solution delivers industry-leading Web awareness and extensible defenses that provide seamless protection for customers without the need for patches or updates. This collaborative defense enables businesses to consistently enforce corporate IT policies worldwide and to prevent Web-based malware and malicious content from compromising application security or performance.
Infonetics forecasts that the content security gateway appliance market will grow 40 percent from $1.5 billion in 2010, to $2.3 billion in 2014.
For more information, please contact:
Manal Abi Rafeh
Regional Marketing Manager ME & Turkey
Blue Coat Systems ME
Telephone: +971 4 3911620
Fax: +971 4 3911635
Email: manal.abirafeh@bluecoat.com
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VMD - [Virtual Marketing Department]
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