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Keeping Networks safe from Social Networking
EGUIDE: Social Networking has provided attackers with an innovative way to gain information from within your corporate networks. This expert E-Guide will provide you with the information needed to keep your organization safe from the threats of social networking.
Posted: 21 Nov 2011 | Published: 21 Nov 2011


WebPulse Collaborative Defense
WHITE PAPER: Malware is constantly evolving, so you need a dynamic security defense that can keep up with the latest web-based threats. Learn how the Blue Coat WebPulse™ collaborative defense powers Blue Coat's web security portfolio, delivering fast and effective Web 2.0 threat protection for 75 million users worldwide.
Posted: 04 Nov 2011 | Published: 04 Nov 2011


Accelerate and Optimize Microsoft SharePoint
WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses SharePoint 2007 along with the cloud-deployed version of SharePoint 2007, BPOS. In addition a look is taken at some of the deployment options, network impacts and optimization approaches.
Posted: 01 Nov 2011 | Published: 01 Nov 2011


Top 6 WAN optimization questions answered
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript, Zeus Karravala discusses some of today's most common WAN challenges.
Posted: 07 Oct 2011 | Published: 07 Oct 2011


Charlotte County Public Schools: Accelerating Web Applications, Streaming Media, and SSL
CASE STUDY: View this case study to discover how Blue Coat SG appliances helped Charlotte County Public Schools radically reduce bandwidth consumption, ensure quality streaming media to large number of students, speed SSL encrypted traffic, provide overall security and control, and more.
Posted: 21 Sep 2011 | Published: 21 Sep 2011


Next-Generation WAN Optimization Is Happening Now
WHITE PAPER: Discover what Forrester Consulting is saying about next generation WAN optimization in this technology adoption profile commissioned by Blue Coat.
Posted: 25 Aug 2011 | Published: 25 Aug 2011


eGuide: Keys to improving WAN application delivery
EGUIDE: This e-guide discusses how gaining visibility into WAN application performance results in better overall WAN management and how you can make it happen. Additionally, uncover best practices on how you can improve application delivery in order to boost overall user experience.
Posted: 02 Aug 2011 | Published: 02 Aug 2011


E-Guide: Matching WAN application acceleration options to network needs: Expert roadmap
EGUIDE: This expert e-guide discusses basic WAN acceleration techniques as well as best practices to boost application performance. Uncover how to match WAN optimization with acceleration options in order to meet your network’s needs.
Posted: 19 Jul 2011 | Published: 19 Jul 2011


Solution Brief: SAP and Blue Coat
WHITE PAPER: Blue Coat’s WAN Optimization technology is especially well suited to improving response times and reducing bandwidth consumption for SAP users, by prioritizing SAP applications and guaranteeing performance over non-critical or recreational traffic.
Posted: 08 Apr 2011 | Published: 07 Apr 2011


Solution Brief: Managing the WAN to Optimize Business
WHITE PAPER: Bandwidth management is a common technique employed by IT organizations to improve quality of service over the WAN. It typically involves assigning guaranteed levels of bandwidth and traffic prioritization to improve application performance.
Posted: 01 Apr 2011 | Published: 01 Apr 2011


The Return of Web Caching: Bandwidth Savings, Network Resilience, and On-Demand Content Delivery in a Web 2.0 World
ANALYST REPORT: In this report you will learn: How the Internet has evolved as we have moved from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0, Dynamics of new Web affects on service providers, Challenges faced by access providers in developing markets, Mobile operator specific challenges and Emerging Web 2.0 Internet usage pattern impact.
Posted: 01 Mar 2011 | Published: 28 Feb 2011


Solution Brief: Accelerating File Services Across the WAN
WHITE PAPER: Trends towards server consolidation and decentralized employees can seriously impact WAN bandwidth. A typical CIFS file often requires hundreds of round trips between the file server and the user to complete a simple file request.
Posted: 09 Feb 2011 | Published: 09 Feb 2011


Threat Containment for Facebook
WHITE PAPER: This technical brief discusses multiple Blue Coat solutions to address malicious content control, enforce acceptable use policies, prevent sensitive information leakage and enhance user productivity on Facebook.
Posted: 08 Oct 2010 | Published: 08 Oct 2010


Optimizing Video Performance Across the Distributed Enterprise
WHITE PAPER: Do more with less: that’s the message echoing through corporate cultures today. One clear target is to contain costs, especially travel-related costs, which can be large enough to have a serious impact on bottom lines. Read this paper to find out more.
Posted: 07 Oct 2010 | Published: 07 Oct 2010


Application Visibility and Monitoring: An integrated approach to application delivery
WHITE PAPER: This white paper looks at the specific issues behind application performance problems and how to resolve them within an ADN environment. It explores how to deliver superior application performance by using application-level insight to manage bandwidth demand, protect against malware and so much more.
Posted: 07 Oct 2010 | Published: 07 Oct 2010


Is Your Network Ready for VoIP?
WHITE PAPER: This paper summarizes in question and answer format the many critical factors pertaining to VoIP’s viability, regardless of which vendor’s IP-PBX system is deployed across the distributed enterprise.
Posted: 07 Oct 2010 | Published: 07 Oct 2010


Application Delivery Networks: The New Imperative for IT Visibility, Acceleration and Security
WHITE PAPER: Your business depends on one thing: getting the right information to the right people at the right time. To gain a competitive advantage, improve customer service and access more business intelligence, you have to ensure fast and responsive application delivery to users wherever they are.
Posted: 14 Sep 2010 | Published: 14 Sep 2010


Secure Web Gateway Deployment Methodologies
WHITE PAPER: In this article, we’ll talk about the four most common types of Web gateway network deployments. Sometimes referred to as forward proxies, these devices are used to secure Web access for an organization’s internal end users.
Posted: 09 Sep 2010 | Published: 09 Sep 2010


Solution Brief: Accelerating SSL Applications Across the WAN
WHITE PAPER: Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is the industry-standard protocol for establishing a secure communications link when transmitting information over untrusted networks. However, SSL can create complications when it comes to prioritizing, optimizing, and accelerating network traffic. This paper outlines a solid strategy for optimizing SSL applications.
Posted: 23 Jun 2010 | Published: 23 Jun 2010


Accelerating File Services Across the WAN
DATA SHEET: CIFS performs poorly across WAN links due to higher latency. The solution to solve the CIFS problem is to apply several WAN optimization technologies working together to quickly and easily restore application performance, improve response time, and recover WAN bandwidth.
Posted: 12 May 2010 | Published: 11 May 2010


Control IM, P2P and Streaming Applications
DATA SHEET: Blue Coat’s secure Web gateway solution provides network administrators with the tools to control Internet applications, such as IM, P2P and streaming applications. Deployed between internal users and external applications, such as IM datacenters, ProxySG intercepts all outbound and inbound communications.
Posted: 11 May 2010 | Published: 11 May 2010


Application Awareness for Service Providers
WHITE PAPER: Managed Service Providers (MSPs) can inject application awareness into their services as their next value-add and as a critical differentiator. Anyone offering managed services, either on-premise, in the cloud or as a hybrid solution, must build application awareness into their infrastructures from the bottom up.
Posted: 11 May 2010 | Published: 11 May 2010


Managing the WAN to Optimize Business
WHITE PAPER: Bandwidth management is a common technique employed by IT organizations to improve quality of service over the WAN by assigning guaranteed levels of bandwidth and prioritizing traffic to improve application performance. To be effective, bandwidth management must be perfectly aligned with business policies and priorities. Read on to learn more.
Posted: 01 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2007


Optimize Performance of Datacenter to Datacenter Traffic
WHITE PAPER: Traffic between datacenters is growing at an accelerating rate. As throughput expands, the rate at which costs increase rises as well. A WAN optimization solution can help get backups and database synchronizations completed on time - without hurting VoIP or internet backhaul. Read on to learn more.
Posted: 01 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2009


A Technical Review of Caching Technologies
WHITE PAPER: The goal of this white paper is to discuss the role of caching, describe in detail how object caching and byte caching works, and show how these caching technologies work together to deliver true performance differentiation.
Posted: 29 Jun 2009 | Published: 17 Dec 2007