Blue Coat

WEBCAST: On today's converged networks -- where data traffic competes with latency-sensitive applications such as VoIP, video conferencing, and virtual machines -- only the greediest survive and thrive. Watch this webinar to learn about bandwidth issues, network resource allocation, and real-time applications management.

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand

WEBCAST: This webcast takes a look at the bandwidth issues that inevitably come up with the use of voice and video conferencing over IP. It covers issues like voice quality metrics, tips and tricks for improving voice quality, and the similarities between managing video and voice content. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand

WHITE PAPER: This paper takes a look at some of the advantages of video conferencing in terms of both cost savings and time savings, explains some of the problems and challenges in making video conferencing work, and gives advice for making the network ready to accommodate video conferences.

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 | Published: 22 Oct 2009

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: The proliferation of user-generated content and video sharing sites has made for a constant source of new material. However, the bandwidth demands of such media often congest WAN links. One approach is to just block flash video. This technical brief presents an alternate approach that can allow video and business critical applications to co-exist.

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 | Published: 22 Oct 2009

CASE STUDY: With two data centers serving 24 offices in the U.S., Europe and India, Hitachi Consulting required a solution that could provide visibility into the applications running on the network while selectively accelerating business critical ones. Read on to learn about the solution they found.

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 | Published: 22 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: According to a recent Nemertes study, a whopping 75% of companies polled indicate they're putting greater emphasis on video conferencing this year. This confirms our ever-growing trend towards the time- and cost-savings of video conferencing. To successfully deploy video conferencing services, avoid these eight common mistakes.

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 | Published: 22 Oct 2009

EGUIDE: As the number of people working outside primary office locations increases, the challenges surrounding security and optimization are becoming more prevalent. This E-Guide details how to maximize the potential of the Wide Area Network while keeping out security threats at all locations.

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 | Published: 07 Oct 2009

PODCAST: Join Tim Scannell, editor of SearchEnterpriseWAN.com, and Bojan Simic, expert in application performance management, WAN optimization, network management, and application delivery, as they discuss how to effectively manage and balance WAN performance with security safeguards on local and wide area networks.

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 18 Sep 2009

ANALYST REPORT: WAN optimization controllers seek to improve applications performance and reduce bandwidth requirements by intelligently managing traffic across the WAN. This analyst report presents a snapshot of the current market situation as well the results and explanation of Gartner's study of nine separate WOC vendors. Read the full report to learn more.

Posted: 10 Jul 2009 | Published: 30 Jun 2009

PODCAST: In this podcast, Agatha Poon of Yankee Analyst Group answers questions about upcoming trends and changes in WAN services. She answers questions about the important trends right now in global enterprise WAN, how the WAN landscape is changing, and how new tools are playing into the market. Listen to this podcast and find out what she has to say.

Posted: 10 Jul 2009 | Premiered: 08 Jul 2009

WEBCAST: This webcast discusses real-time applications and successful strategies in voice delivery, video conferencing, and thin client delivery.

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand

WEBCAST: Watch this webcast to learn about the challenges and successes of Chris Bress, Director of Learning Through Technology for a public school system in Florida, which serves 17,000 students.

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand

WEBCAST: Check out this webcast to learn more about web and SSL applications and how you can delivering applications more cost-effectively for your organization and more efficiently for users.

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand

WEBCAST: This webcast discusses the top five challenges in enterprise networks, data and server consolidation challenges, performance issues and solutions, best practices for network architecture management, and Blue Coat's vision for addressing these issues.

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand

WEBCAST: This webcast discusses how WAN optimization technology is still relevant and produces cost savings for organizations despite an evolving IT environment.

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand

WEBCAST: Check out this webcast, which explains the uses of video in today's enterprise, discusses video delivery acceleration, reviews actual case studies, and offers resources for more information.

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand

WHITE PAPER: Blue Coat ProxyClient extends Blue Coat's visionary application delivery infrastructure to include all of these use cases - from any network, any device, and to any application - keeping users productive wherever the business takes them.

Posted: 01 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jan 2007

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

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

ANALYST BRIEF: Vendor market share positions shuffled once again in 1Q09: With Cisco down 30%, Riverbed down 10%, and Blue Coat holding steady, Blue Coat is back on top with 30% revenue market share. This market has essentially become a 3-horse race, with the top 3 vendors capturing roughly 3/4 of the overall market.

Posted: 01 Jul 2009 | Published: 29 May 2009

PRODUCT LITERATURE: Read this brief paper to see common myths about Direct-to-Net dispelled.

Posted: 01 Jul 2009 | Published: 28 Dec 2007

PRODUCT LITERATURE: This white paper outlines the basic obstacles enterprise business' face having remote employees. More specifically, it provides a problem - solution approach to WAN latency and bandwith hungry application issues that disrupt profitability.

Posted: 01 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jan 2006

PRODUCT LITERATURE: Check out this brief paper to see how Blue Coat Systems provides an end-to-end solution based on MACH5 technology to improve the listening and viewing experience of an end user consuming streaming audio and video online.

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Dec 2008

PRODUCT LITERATURE: How can server consolidation, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), moving applications to a web-based interface, and video and TelePresence collaboration projects all be supported at a reasonable cost? Check out this report to see how application acceleration is the answer.

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 | Published: 08 Jan 2009

ANALYST REPORT: Businesses are turning to IT to drive down operating expenses as well as ratchet up productivity and efficiency to drive a more effective, leaner business in 2009 and beyond. IT needs to help save the business while remaining responsive, reliable, and agile, all using less investment than was previously available. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 | Published: 29 Jun 2009